The Diamond Film () is a film award recognising domestic box office achievements in the Netherlands. The Diamond Film is awarded to films from the Netherlands once they have sold 1,000,000 cinema tickets or more during the original circulation. The award is initiated by the Netherlands Film Festival and the Netherlands Film Fund in addition to the Golden Film for 100,000 visitors, the Platinum Film for 400,000 visitors, and the Crystal Film for 10,000 visitors of a documentary film. History
The first Diamond Film was awarded to Black Book (2006) on 31 January 2007. The director of the Netherlands Film Festival presented the trophies to the producer San Fu Maltha, director Paul Verhoeven, and the film cast, during a dinner for the film crew and cast organized by San Fu Maltha. Black Book was the first film since the introduction of Dutch box office awards in 2001 that reached an audience of one million visitors. Black Book had a budget of €17,000,000, which made it the most expensive film from the Netherlands ever, at the time of its release. After receiving the Diamond Film, Paul Verhoeven says about Black Book: Scenario writer Gerard Soeteman says about Black Book after it received the Diamond Film:
Films that received the Diamond Film Diamond Film for 1,000,000 tickets soldYearFilm titleFilm releaseDiamond Film2007Black Book14 September 200631 January 2007Love is All11 October 20077 December 2007 2010 Stricken 26 November 2009 12 January 2010"Komt een vrouw bij de dokter" (in Dutch), Netherlands Film Festival, 2010. Retrieved 7 May 2017. 2011 New Kids Turbo 9 December 2010"New Kids Turbo" (in Dutch), Netherlands Film Festival, 2010. Retrieved 7 May 2017. 25 January 2011 Gooische Vrouwen 10 March 2011 1 April 2011"Gooische Vrouwen" (in Dutch), Netherlands Film Festival, 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2017. 2014 Gooische Vrouwen 2 4 December 2014 28 December 2014 "Gooische Vrouwen 2" (in Dutch), Netherlands Film Festival, 2014. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
Other Dutch films with more than one million admissions Between 1945 and 2013, the following Dutch films had admissions of greater than one million. In 2014, Gooische Vrouwen 2 had more than 2 million admissions. Rank Title Year Admissions1Turkish Delight19733,338,0002Fanfare19582,635,1783Ciske the Rat19552,432,5004Business Is Business19712,358,9465Blue Movie19712,334,8966Flodder19862,313,7017Gooische Vrouwen20111,914,0008Keetje Tippel19751,829,0689The Human Dutch19631,663,74310Ciske de Rat19841,593,74111Soldier of Orange19771,546,49812Flodders in America19921,494,00013The Silent Raid19621,474,28614Love Is All20071,318,00015A Kingdom for a House19491,291,72816Stricken20091,211,00017Little Crumb19991,136,00018Stars Shine Everywhere19531,129,93119Spetters19801,124,16220New Kids Turbo20101,088,00021Help! The Doctor Is Drowning19741,088,44122Black Book20061,056,00023Army Brats19841,048,76824Loony Joe19811,046,784
Notes and references
External links Diamond Films