Mike van Diem

Biography

Mike van Diem is a Dutch screenwriter and director born in Druten on the 12th of January 1959. He won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1998 with his feature film debut Character.

Directed

1. Character (1997) — Director
2. The Surprise (2015) — Director
3. Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle (2017) — Director
4. Our Girls (2025) — Director
5. Alaska (1989) — Director
6. Pleidooi (1993) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Based on the Novel (1999) — Mike van Diem