Mike van Diem (born 1959, in Druten, grew up in

Sittard Sittard (; ) is a city in the Netherlands, situated in the southernmost province of Limburg. The town is part of the municipality of Sittard-Geleen and has almost 37.500 inhabitants in 2016. In its east, Sittard borders the German municipa ...

) is a Dutch

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, pr ...

. In 1990, his short film ''Alaska'' won a

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for best short film and the Student Academy Award for best foreign student film in the drama category. In 1998, he received the

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a ...

for the film ''

Character Character or Characters may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * ''Character'' (novel), a 1936 Dutch novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk * ''Characters'' (Theophrastus), a classical Greek set of character sketches attributed to The ...

'' based on the 1938 novel ''Karakter'' by Ferdinand Bordewijk. He has also directed commercials.

Selected filmography

* ''

'' (1997) * '' The Surprise'' (2015) * ''

Tulipani, Love, Honour and a Bicycle ''Tulipani, Love, Honour and a Bicycle'' ( nl, Tulipani, Liefde, Eer en een Fiets) is a 2017 Dutch comedy film, written by Peter van Wijk and directed by Mike van Diem. It was shortlisted by the EYE Film Institute Netherlands as one of the eigh ...

'' (2017)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Diem, Mike van 1959 births Living people Dutch film directors Golden Calf winners Directors of Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award winners People from Sittard