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{{Short description|Dutch film award}}
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{{Infobox award
| name           = Golden Film
| alt            = A large wooden frame surrounds a small image of a screenshot of a woman sitting up in a bed while a man and woman sleep next to her. A golden tag at the bottom of the frame says "Golden Film 2003 Liever Verliefd".
| image          =
| imagesize      = 250px
| caption        = The Golden Film trophy for ''[[Love to Love (film)|Love to Love]]'' (2003)
| awarded_for    = [[Box office]] achievements
| presenter      = [[Netherlands Film Festival]]<br/>[[Netherlands Film Fund]]
| country        = [[Netherlands]]
| year           = September 28, 2001
| website        = http://www.goudenfilm.nl/
}}

The '''Golden Film''' ({{langx|nl|'''Gouden Film'''}}) is a [[film]] [[award]] recognizing domestic [[box office]] achievements in the [[Netherlands]]. The Golden Film is awarded to films from the Netherlands once they have sold {{nowrap|100,000 tickets}}. The award is an initiative by the [[Netherlands Film Festival]] and the [[Netherlands Film Fund]] to increase media attention for [[Netherlands|Dutch]] films. For each awarded film there is one [[trophy]] for the [[film crew]] and another for the [[Cast member|film cast]].

When the Golden Film was introduced in 2001, it was awarded to films once they had sold {{nowrap|75,000 tickets}}. In the following years, the public's interest in Dutch films in the Netherlands had increased. In 2003, the audience criterion was increased to {{nowrap|100,000 tickets}} in an effort to further stimulate the Dutch [[film industry]]. Since its introduction, the Golden Film has been awarded to more than 100 films.

While the cast and crew have considered their receiving films to be successful, critics have said that films that sold only {{nowrap|75,000}} or {{nowrap|100,000 tickets}} cannot be considered a commercial success. For this reason the fact that Dutch newspapers report about this award is also criticized.

==Award==
A Golden Film is awarded to a [[film]] from the [[Netherlands]] once it has sold {{nowrap|100,000 [[Movie theater|cinema]]}} tickets in the Netherlands during the original cinema circulation.<ref name="film-fund-press-release">{{cite press release
  | title = Nieuwe voorwaarden Gouden en Platina Film
  | publisher = [[Netherlands Film Fund]]
  | date = 2003-03-11
  | url = http://www.filmfund.nl/nieuws/046.htm
  | access-date = 2005-12-25 |language=nl}}</ref> The number of tickets sold is based on [[box office]] information provided by the film's [[film distributor|distributor]] and the [[Netherlands Association of Film Distributors]].<ref>{{cite web
  | title = De Nederlandse film
  | work = Filmfestival.nl
  | publisher = [[Netherlands Film Festival]]
  | url = http://www.filmfestival.nl/index.php?id=1385
  | access-date = 2008-01-23 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071211000855/http://www.filmfestival.nl/index.php?id=1385 |archive-date = December 11, 2007|language=nl}}</ref> After a film is awarded the Golden Film, it can receive a [[Platinum Film]] after it sells {{nowrap|400,000 tickets}} and a [[Diamond Film]] after it sells {{nowrap|1,000,000 tickets}}. In addition to these awards, there is the [[Crystal Film]], which is awarded to [[documentary film]]s that sell more than {{nowrap|10,000 tickets.}}<ref>{{cite web
 |title=Alles is Liefde behaalt in recordtempo één miljoen bezoekers 
 |work=Filmfestival.nl 
 |publisher=[[Netherlands Film Festival]] 
 |date=2007-12-07 
 |url=http://www.filmfestival.nl/index.php?id=908&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=272&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=700&cHash=4c20983c71 
 |access-date=2008-01-19 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071220172354/http://www.filmfestival.nl/index.php?id=908&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=272&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=700&cHash=4c20983c71 
 |archive-date=December 20, 2007 
 |language=nl 
 |url-status=dead 
}}</ref>

The Golden Film is an initiative by the [[Netherlands Film Festival]] and the government-subsidized [[Netherlands Film Fund]], with the support of Film Investors Netherlands, to increase the public's awareness of [[Netherlands|Dutch]] films in the Netherlands. The Golden Film recognises box office achievements to encourage positive publicity for a film after the initial media attention surrounding its release has begun to wane. The award is similar to the Dutch music industry's Golden Record, that is awarded after selling 40,000&nbsp;singles, 35,000&nbsp;popular music albums, or 15,000&nbsp;classical music albums.<ref name="feest">{{cite web|last=Ockhuysen |first=Ronald |title=Nederlandse film viert feest |work=Cinema.nl |date=2002-10-24 |url=http://www.cinema.nl/artikelen/2170106/nederlandse-film-viert-feest |access-date=2007-01-12 |language=nl |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720162926/http://www.cinema.nl/artikelen/2170106/nederlandse-film-viert-feest |archive-date=July 20, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web
  | title = Goud/Platina reglement
  | work = Nvpi.nl
  | publisher = Nederlandse Vereniging van producenten en Importeurs van beeld- en geluidsdragers
  | url = http://www.nvpi.nl/nvpi/pagina.asp?pagkey=62772&
  | access-date = 2007-11-04
  | language = nl
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071113191622/http://www.nvpi.nl/nvpi/pagina.asp?pagkey=62772
  | archive-date = 2007-11-13
  | url-status = dead
  }}</ref>

The Golden Film awards are presented during small press ceremonies throughout the year and shortly after a film has reached the audience criterion. The trophies are presented by the director of the Netherlands Film Festival or sometimes by a member of the crew or cast of the film itself.<ref>{{cite web
 |title=Uitreiking Gouden Film Zwartboek 
 |work=Fuworks.nl 
 |publisher=[[Fu Works]] 
 |date=2006-09-18 
 |url=http://www.fuworks.nl/news.php?id=63 
 |access-date=2007-08-17 
 |language=nl 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928140747/http://www.fuworks.nl/news.php?id=63 
 |archive-date=2007-09-28 
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
 |last=Zanten 
 |first=Claudia van 
 |title=Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek krijgt Gouden Film 
 |work=Elsevier.nl 
 |publisher=[[Elsevier (magazine)|Elsevier]] 
 |date=2006-11-27 
 |url=http://www.elsevier.nl/nieuws/cultuur_en_televisie/artikel/asp/artnr/127954/index.html 
 |access-date=2007-08-17 
 |language=nl 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930210807/http://www.elsevier.nl/nieuws/cultuur_en_televisie/artikel/asp/artnr/127954/index.html 
 |archive-date=2007-09-30 
}}</ref><ref name="verliefd">{{cite news|title=Gouden Film voor N Beetje Verliefd |work=Telegraaf.nl |publisher=[[De Telegraaf]] |date=2007-01-15 |url=http://www.telegraaf.nl/prive/article56869921.ece |access-date=2007-08-27 |language=nl |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929083008/http://www.telegraaf.nl/prive/article56869921.ece |archive-date=September 29, 2007 }}</ref> Two trophies are presented for each film: one to the [[film crew]], represented by the [[film producer|producer]] and the [[Film director|director]], and the other to the [[cast member|cast of the film]], represented by the lead [[actor]]s.<ref name="film-fund-press-release"/>

The trophy was designed by Jeroen Tirion<ref>{{cite web
  | title = Trofee Gouden, Platina en Kristallen Film
  | work = Speravi.nl
  | url = http://www.speravi.nl/Trofee%20Gouden%20Kristallen%20en%20Platine%20Film%20fotopagina.htm
  | access-date = 2008-06-26
  | language = nl
  | archive-date = 12 December 2007
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071212145106/http://www.speravi.nl/Trofee%20Gouden%20Kristallen%20en%20Platine%20Film%20fotopagina.htm
  | url-status = dead
  }}</ref> and consists of a thick square frame, containing a [[film frame]] of the awarded movie.<ref name="crystal">{{cite web
  | title = Nieuwe prijs voor Nederlandse documentaires
  | work = Cinema.nl
  | date = 2005-04-28
  | url = http://www.cinema.nl/artikelen/2162530/nieuwe-prijs-voor-nederlandse-documentaires
  | access-date = 2007-01-11 |language=nl}}</ref> The outer frame is made of [[Milling machine|milled]] [[wood]], which has a plate attached to it, on the first line inscribed with the text "Gouden Film", three squares, and the year, and on the second line with the film's title.<ref>{{cite web
  | title = Cnc freeswerk
  | work = Speravi.nl
  | url = http://www.speravi.nl/CNC%20freeswerk.html
  | access-date = 2007-01-13
  | language = nl
  | archive-date = 20 February 2007
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070220052341/http://www.speravi.nl/CNC%20freeswerk.html
  | url-status = dead
  }}</ref>

==History==

{{See also|List of films that received the Golden Film}}
<div style="float: right; margin-left: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;">
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |
! colspan="5" style="background: #ffdead;" | Cinema audience in the Netherlands<ref name="statistics">{{cite web
 |title=Jaarboek 2007 
 |work=Nfcstatistiek.nl 
 |publisher=Dutch Federation for Cinematography 
 |year=2007 
 |url=http://www.nfcstatistiek.nl/jv06.pdf 
 |access-date=2007-10-20 
 |language=nl 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071127080012/http://www.nfcstatistiek.nl/jv06.pdf 
 |archive-date=2007-11-27 
}}</ref>
|-
! Year
! Total audience
! Dutch film audience
! Golden Films
|-
|1997
|18.9 million
|0.70 million (3.7%)
| {{N/A}}
|-
|1998
|20.1 million
|1.2 million (6.1%)
| {{N/A}}
|-
|1999
|18.6 million
|1.1 million (5.5%)
| {{N/A}}
|-
|2000
|21.6 million
|1.3 million (5.9%)
| {{N/A}}
|-
|2001
|23.6 million
|2.2 million (9.5%)
|4 awards
|-
|2002
|24.1 million
|2.53 million (10.5%)
|6 awards
|-
|2003
|24.9 million
|3.30 million (13.26%)
|6 awards
|-
|2004
|23.0 million
|2.12 million (9.20%)
|9 awards
|-
|2005
|20.6 million
|2.71 million (13.16%)
|8 awards
|-
|2006
|23.4 million
|2.62 million (11.18%)
|5 awards
|-
|2007
|22 million{{ref label|provisional_|ii|ii}}<ref name="film2007">{{cite news
 |title=Nederlandse film ongekend populair in 2007 (+video) 
 |work=Nrc.nl 
 |publisher=[[NRC Handelsblad]] 
 |date=2008-01-10 
 |url=http://www.nrc.nl/kunst/article888747.ece 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080305021143/http://www.nrc.nl/kunst/article888747.ece 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-date=2008-03-05 
 |access-date=2008-01-10 
 |language=nl 
}}</ref>
|2.9 million (13.4%){{ref label|provisional_|ii|ii}}<ref name="film2007"/>
|8 awards
|-
|2008
|22 million<ref name="film2008">{{cite news
  | title = Succesvol jaar Nederlandse film
  | work = Cinema.nl
  | date = 2009-01-07
  | url = http://www.cinema.nl/artikelen/4457896/succesvol-jaar-nederlandse-film
  | access-date = 2009-06-11 |language=nl}}</ref>
|3.9 million (17,6%)<ref name="film2008"/>
|14 awards
|-
|2009
| {{unk|Pending}}
| {{unk|Pending}}
|2 awards{{ref label|date_|i|i}}
|}
</div>
The Netherlands Film Festival and the Netherlands Film Fund announced the Golden Film on September 4, 2001. At that time, the Golden Film was awarded to films from the Netherlands once they had been seen by a paying audience of 75,000 or more.<ref name="film-fund-press-release"/> The [[Platinum Film]] was introduced at the same moment, for films with paying audiences of 200,000 or more. The first Golden Film was awarded on September 28, 2001, to ''[[I Love You Too (2001 film)|I Love You Too]]'' (2001),<ref name="iloveyoutoo">{{cite web
  | title = Ik ook van jou
  | work = Filmfestival.nl
  | publisher = [[Netherlands Film Festival]]
  | date = 2001-09-28
  | url = http://www.filmfestival.nl/index.php?id=1401
  | access-date = 2008-01-19 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071028185928/http://www.filmfestival.nl/index.php?id=1401 |archive-date = October 28, 2007|language=nl}}</ref> and by the end of 2002 a total of 10 Golden Films had been awarded.

Within 18 months of the award's introduction, the public's interest in Dutch films in the Netherlands had increased. The audience for Dutch films as a percentage of the total cinema audience in the Netherlands was 5.5% in 1999 and 5.9% in 2000. In 2001, the year of the award's introduction, audiences increased to 9.5%. And in 2002, the audience for Dutch films further increased to 10.5%.<ref name="statistics"/>

In 2003, the criterion for the award was changed in an effort to further stimulate the Dutch film industry. Films released after January 1, 2003, had to reach paying audiences of 100,000 to qualify for the Golden Film and 400,000 for the Platinum Film.<ref name="film-fund-press-release"/> All films that had received a Golden Film before 2003 would also have received a Golden Film under the new criterion.<ref name="report2001">{{cite web
  | title = NFC annual report 2001
  | work = Nfcstatistiek.nl
  | publisher = Dutch Federation for Cinematography
  | year = 2002
  | url = http://www.nfcstatistiek.nl/jv01.pdf
  | access-date = 2007-11-04
  | language = nl
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071127075918/http://www.nfcstatistiek.nl/jv01.pdf
  | archive-date = 2007-11-27
  | url-status = dead
  }}</ref><ref name="report2002">{{cite web
  | title = NFC annual report 2002
  | work = Nfcstatistiek.nl
  | publisher = Dutch Federation for Cinematography
  | year = 2003
  | url = http://www.nfcstatistiek.nl/jv02.pdf
  | access-date = 2007-10-21
  | language = nl
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071127080038/http://www.nfcstatistiek.nl/jv02.pdf
  | archive-date = 2007-11-27
  | url-status = dead
  }}</ref> From 2003 until 2007, the percentage of cinema visitors in the Netherlands who watched a Dutch film was between 9.20% and 13.4%.<ref name="statistics"/><ref name="film2007"/>

Since its introduction, the Golden Film has been awarded to [[List of films that received the Golden Film|62&nbsp;films]].{{ref label|date_|i|i}} In 2008, fourteen films were awarded the Golden Film, the highest number to have received the award in a single year.{{ref label|date_|i|i}} Most of the films that are awarded the Golden Film have taken a week or more to reach the target audience figure. Only ''[[Full Moon Party (film)|Full Moon Party]]'' (2002) and ''[[Black Book (film)|Black Book]]'' (2006) have reached the criterion, for respectively 75,000 and {{nowrap|100,000 visitors}}, during their opening weekends.<ref>{{cite web
 |title=Volle Maan na openingsweekend al Gouden Film 
 |work=Film1 
 |date=2002-10-14 
 |url=http://www1.film1.nl/nieuws/3466-Volle-Maan-na-openingsweekend-al-Gouden-Film.html 
 |access-date=2008-01-23 
 |language=nl 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701213249/http://www1.film1.nl/nieuws/3466-Volle-Maan-na-openingsweekend-al-Gouden-Film.html 
 |archive-date=2007-07-01 
}}</ref><ref name="zwartboek">{{cite news
  | title = 'Zwartboek' trekt in eerste weekend 125.000 bezoekers
  | work = Nrc.nl
  | publisher = [[NRC Handelsblad]]
  | date = 2006-09-18
  | url = http://www.nrc.nl/kunst/article484960.ece
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070929122526/http://www.nrc.nl/kunst/article484960.ece
  | url-status = dead
  | archive-date = 2007-09-29
  | access-date = 2007-12-27 |language=nl}}</ref>

==Response to the award==
Recipients consider the Golden Film to be an award given to films that are a success. Director [[Martin Koolhoven]] said, when ''[[Schnitzel Paradise]]'' (2005) received the award, that he did not expect his film to be such a success. ''Schnitzel Paradise'' was his first commercially successful film.<ref>{{cite web
  | title = Schnitzelparadijs krijgt Gouden Film
  | work = Cinema.nl
  | publisher = [[De Volkskrant]] / [[VPRO]]
  | date = 2005-09-20
  | url = http://www.cinema.nl/artikelen/2161143/schnitzelparadijs-krijgt-gouden-film
  | access-date = 2007-09-22 |language=nl}}</ref> Fifteen-year-old [[Sem Veeger]], lead actress in the film ''[[Keep Off]]'' (2006), said she knew that many people had seen the film, but she did not expect it to receive a Golden Film.<ref>{{cite web
 |last=Dammers 
 |first=Maartje 
 |title=Gouden Film voor Afblijven 
 |work=Kidsweek.nl 
 |publisher=[[Kidsweek]] 
 |date=2006-10-19 
 |url=http://www.kidsweek.nl/artikel/171961/ 
 |access-date=2007-09-22 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929014150/http://www.kidsweek.nl/artikel/171961/ 
 |archive-date=2007-09-29 
 |language=nl 
 |url-status=dead 
}}</ref>

Critics of the award have said that films which have sold only 75,000 or {{nowrap|100,000 tickets}} cannot be considered commercially successful. In 2002, film journalist Ronald Ockhuysen said about the Golden Film:
<blockquote class="templatequote"><div>A good idea&nbsp;– in itself. (...) A positive signal towards the people. But it is doubtful whether the masses pick up the signal. 75,000&nbsp;visitors makes a meagre, a poor appearance. Especially for films solely made for the masses, like Full Moon Party. Johan Nijenhuis, the director of Full Moon Party, has admitted outright that he considers only 300,000&nbsp;visitors a failure.{{ref label|ockhuysen_|iv|iv}}<ref name="feest"/></div></blockquote> Ockhuysen also wrote that the Golden Film is a "child of our time" because it tries to reduce the value of a film to its commercial success, and it is supporting films that already have large publicity budgets instead of smaller and more vulnerable productions.<ref name="feest"/> Film producer [[Rob Houwer]] has said that he believes the Golden Film is the prize for a commercial [[failure|flop]]. In 2005, when the criterion for the award had already been increased from 75,000 to 100,000&nbsp;visitors, he said in an interview:
<blockquote class="templatequote"><div>It is really nothing at all. A failure. It starts to be something for a producer when 350,000 or more cinema tickets are sold. It is incomprehensible why there are media reporting about this award. Why does everybody accept this nonsense?{{ref label|houwer_|v|v}}<ref name="nonsense">{{cite web|last=Ekker |first=Jan Pieter |author2=Ockhuysen, Ronald |title='Ik ben de trait-d'union' |work=Cinema.nl |date=2005-10-20 |url=http://www.cinema.nl/artikelen/2160831/ik-ben-de-trait-d-union |access-date=2007-01-11 |language=nl |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720163106/http://www.cinema.nl/artikelen/2160831/ik-ben-de-trait-d-union |archive-date=July 20, 2011 }}</ref></div></blockquote>

Dutch newspapers, such as ''[[Algemeen Dagblad]]'',<ref name="bontekoe">{{cite news
  | title = Gouden Film voor Bontekoe
  | work = Ad.nl
  | publisher = [[Algemeen Dagblad]]
  | date = 2007-12-27
  | url = http://www.ad.nl/filmwereld/article1924125.ece
  | access-date = 2007-12-27 |language=nl}}</ref> ''[[De Telegraaf]]'',<ref name="verliefd"/> and ''[[NRC Handelsblad]]'',<ref name="zwartboek"/> have reported about films receiving the Golden Film. When the film ''[[De Scheepsjongens van Bontekoe]]'' (2007) had drawn {{nowrap|100,000 visitors}} to the cinema, the Dutch news agency [[Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau]] said the film had reached "the magical threshold of 100,000".{{ref label|anp_|iii|iii}}<ref name="bontekoe"/>

==Notes==
{{refbegin}}
:*{{note label|date_|i|i}} As of March 1, 2009.
:*{{note label|provisional_|ii|ii}} More accurate data for 2007 are not available, because the 2007 Annual Report/2008 Year Book of the Dutch Federation for Cinematography is not publicly available on their website, like it was in previous years.<ref>{{cite web
  | title = Brancheorganisatie NVB
  | work = Nvbinfocentrum.nl
  | publisher = Dutch Association of Cinema Exploitants
  | url = http://www.nvbinfocentrum.nl/?id=1465
  | access-date = 2008-06-12
  | language = nl
  | archive-date = 15 June 2008
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080615231403/http://www.nvbinfocentrum.nl/?id=1465
  | url-status = dead
  }}
</ref>
:*{{note label|anp_|iii|iii}} The phrase "the magical threshold of 100,000" is a translation of the [[Dutch language|Dutch]] phrase "de magische grens van 100.000" that was used by the [[Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau|ANP]].<ref name="bontekoe"/>
:*{{note label|ockhuysen_|iv|iv}} The original quotation of Ronald Ockhuysen in {{langx|nl|"Een goed idee - op zichzelf}}. (...) 'Een positief signaal naar de mensen toe.' Alleen is het twijfelachtig of het grote publiek dat signaal wel oppikt. 75 Duizend bezoekers heeft iets schraals, iets armoedigs. Zeker als een film, zoals Volle Maan, louter en alleen is gemaakt voor een massapubliek. Johan Nijenhuis, regisseur van Volle Maan, heeft ruiterlijk toegegeven dat hij 300 duizend bezoekers als een mislukking beschouwt."<ref name="feest"/>
:*{{note label|houwer_|v|v}} The original quotation of [[Rob Houwer]] in {{langx|nl|"Dat is echt helemaal niks}}. Een mislukking. Pas vanaf zo'n 350 duizend verkochte bioscoopkaartjes begint het voor de producent ergens op te lijken. Het is onbegrijpelijk dat de media over die prijs berichten. Waarom slikt iedereen deze ongein voor zoete koek?"<ref name="nonsense"/>

{{refend}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{in lang|nl}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20021208002205/http://www.goudenfilm.nl/ Gouden Film]
*[https://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Golden_and_Platin_Film_Netherlands/ Golden and Platin Film Netherlands] at the [[Internet Movie Database]]

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