Mike van Diem (born 1959, in Sittard) is a Dutch film director.In 1990 his short film Alaska won a Golden Calf 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 for the film Character based on the 1938 novel Karakter by Ferdinand Bordewijk.Nowadays he directs commercials.
[After winning an Oscar and being invited to Hollywood, and the subsequent struggle to find a suitable project] Hollywood gives you a Michelin star, and then invites you to come over and bake hamburgers.
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In his Oscar-speech for Karakter (1997), he honored his Oscar to his friend and colleague Coen van Vrijberghe de Coningh. Coen died in the Flodder-studios in Almere due to a cardiac arrest while performing a stunt.
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Won 1990 Student Academy Award for Alaska as best foreign student film in the dramatic category.
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Graduated from the Netherlands Film and Television Academy (NFTVA) [1989]
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