page_title: Bert Haanstra
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Bert Haanstra / Career
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Collectie / Archief&#160;: Fotocollectie Anefo Reportage / Serie&#160;: [ onbekend ] Beschrijving&#160;: Uitreiking "Oscar" aan Bert Haanstra door Amerikaanse ambassadeur Ph. Young Datum&#160;: 16 juni 1960 Trefwoorden&#160;: Uitreikingen, ambassadeurs Persoonsnaam&#160;: Haanstra, Bert, Young, Ph. Fotograaf&#160;: Pot, Harry / Anefo Auteursrechthebbende&#160;: Nationaal Archief Materiaalsoort&#160;: Negatief (zwart/wit) Nummer archiefinventaris&#160;: bekijk toegang 2.24.01.05 Bestanddeelnummer&#160;: 911-3434 Reacties Geplaatst door Televisiefan op 30 juli 2017 - 16:08. Locatie: Amerikaanse Ambassade Plaats: Den Haag, Zuid-Holland NB. Bert Haanstra kreeg de 'Oscar' voor de documentaire / film 'Glas'. Hij was de eerste Nederlander die een 'Oscar' in ontvangst mocht nemen.
context_page_description: Albert Haanstra was a Dutch director of films and documentaries. His documentary Glass won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in 1959. His feature film Fanfare was the most visited Dutch film at the time, and has since only been surpassed by Turkish Delight.
context_section_description: Haanstra became a professional Dutch documentary film maker in 1947. He won international acclaim with his short documentary Spiegel van Holland (Mirror of Holland), for which he received the Grand Prix du court métrage at the Cannes Film Festival of 1951. During the fifties he made six films for Shell, among others The Rival World (1955) on insects spreading deadly diseases and how to fight them. In 1958 his documentary Glass, a filming improvisation made in a glass factory, won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject.
  He directed several fiction films. Fanfare, a comedy situated in a small Dutch village, is still the Netherlands' second most popular film ever (measured at the box office), only surpassed by Paul Verhoevens Turkish Delight. Abroad however, Fanfare was hardly noticed, but it was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and the 1st Moscow International Film Festival.
  After Fanfare, he continued his artistry in directing another short film called, Zoo. It was released on the 14th of December, 1962. A film which compared the behavior of animals and humans through his always appreciated humoristic fashion. As always, Haanstra continued to experiment with his cinematic techniques. In Zoo he experimented with hidden camera filming to capture he true nature of both man and beast. In 1963, Zoo was nominated for the BAFTA Film Award in Holland for Best Short Film.
  In several shorts and in long documentaries like Alleman / The Human Dutch and Stem van het water / The Voice of the Water Haansta reflected on The Netherlands and its inhabitants. All these films made him one of the most popular filmmakers in the history of Dutch cinema. The documentary Alleman was seen in the cinema by 20 percent of the total Dutch population. In the seventies and eighties Haanstra addressed a new subject. He made several films about animals. In the long documentary Bij de beesten af / Ape and Super-Ape (1973), for which he collaborated with Frans de Waal and Jane Goodall, among others, he compared the behavior of animals and human beings. In total Haanstra received close to a hundred awards.
  Haanstra was Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau.
caption: Haanstra receives his Academy Award for Glass from Ambassador Philip Young in 1959.
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