Diamond Film


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 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

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.
RankTitleYearAdmissions
1Turkish Delight19733,338,000
2Fanfare19582,635,178
3Ciske the Rat19552,432,500
4Business Is Business19712,358,946
5Blue Movie19712,334,896
6Flodder19862,313,701
7Gooische Vrouwen20111,914,000
8Keetje Tippel19751,829,068
9The Human Dutch19631,663,743
10Ciske de Rat19841,593,741
11Soldier of Orange19771,546,498
12Flodders in America19921,494,000
13The Silent Raid19621,474,286
14Love Is All20071,318,000
15A Kingdom for a House19491,291,728
16Stricken20091,211,000
17Little Crumb19991,136,000
18Stars Shine Everywhere19531,129,931
19Spetters19801,124,162
20New Kids Turbo20101,088,000
21Help! The Doctor Is Drowning19741,088,441
22Black Book20061,056,000
23Army Brats19841,048,768
24Loony Joe19811,046,784