During the Talkshow of the 26th Netherlands Film Festival, the nominations were announced for the 2006 Golden Calves, the prestigious award for Dutch Cinema. The Jury of the Golden Calves competition selected the nominees after watching 76 film productions in competition. The jury members are Esther Bannenberg, Jan van den Berg, Jacqueline de Goeij, Rolf Koot (vice-chairman), Esmé Lammers (chairwoman), Erik Langhout and Wouter Suyderhoud.

Also in this evening's Talkshow, the nominations were announced for the Dutch Film Critics Award. This press award is granted by the Circle of Dutch Film Critics KNF. This year's jury is made up of Pieter van Lierop (GPD), Saskia Legein (TVFilm, Radio M), Mike Peek (NL20), Bregtje Schudel (Vrij Nederland) and Willem Schouten (Sp!ts).

The Golden Calves and the Dutch Film Critics Award will be presented during the Netherlands Film Gala on Friday 6 October from 20:00 to 21:30 in the Stadsschouwburg in Utrecht. The Gala can be seen live on the internet via www.filmfestival.nl, and VPRO TV reports on it from 23:15 uur on Ned 2.

The Jury awards Golden Calves in seventeen categories: Best Sound Design, Best Editing, Best Production Design, Best Music, Best Photography, Best Short Film, Best Short Documentary, Best Full-Length Documentary, Best TV Drama, Best Male Supporting Role, Best Female Supporting Role, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Script, Best Director, Best Feature Film and the Special Jury Award. No nominations are made for the Special Jury Award.

During the Gala, the Golden Calf for the Tiscali Audience Award will also be presented to the feature film that got the highest score from festival audiences.

The children's and youth awards were also presented today. ZOO RANGERS IN INDIA was awarded the Moviesquad Junior Award, and during the Talkshow the children's jury granted the Moviesquad Award to A THOUSAND KISSES.

The nominations for the Golden Calves, the prestigious award for Dutch Cinema 2006, in alphabetical order by film title:

BEST SOUND DESIGN
Peter Flamman and the sound crew for A THOUSAND KISSES
Mark Glynne and the sound crew for JUNGLE RUDY, THE CHRONICLE OF A FAMILY Jeroen Goeijers, Michel Schöpping and the sound crew for VOICES OF BAM

BEST EDITING
Teun Pfeil for L'AMI HOLLANDAIS, JEF LAST & ANDRÉ GIDE
Danniel Danniel for FOREVER
Menno Boerema, Eugenie Jansen, Albert Elings and Chris van Oers for JUNGLE RUDY, THE CHRONICLE OF A FAMILY

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Vincent de Pater for BOLLETJES BLUES
Harry Ammerlaan for A THOUSAND KISSES
Gert Brinkers for WAITER

BEST MUSIC
The soundtrack of BOLLETJES BLUES
Paul Prenen for I NEVER WANT TO BE FAMOUS
Vincent van Warmerdam for WAITER

BEST PHOTOGRAPHY
Jackó van 't Hof for BEAUTIFUL IN BEAUFORT-WES
Thomas Doebele and Maarten Schmidt for CONSTANT, AVANT LE DÉPART Lex Brand for A THOUSAND KISSES

BEST SHORT FILM
DE GETUIGE by Erik de Bruyn
MEANDER by Joke Liberge
PUBLIC SPACES by Martijn Veldhoen

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
BEAUTIFUL IN BEAUFORT-WES by Walter Stokman
HERE IS ALWAYS SOMEWHERE ELSE by Rene Daalder
PHOTO SOUVENIR by Paul Cohen and Martijn van Haalen

BESTE FULL-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY
DREAMING BY NUMBERS by Anna Bucchetti
FOREVER by Heddy Honigmann
JUNGLE RUDY, THE CHRONICLE OF A FAMILY by Rob Smits

BEST TV DRAMA
ESCORT by Frank Ketelaar
SUBIET! by Simone van Dusseldorp
THE CHOSEN by Theu Boermans

BEST MALE SUPPORTING ROLE
Edo Brunner for BONKERS
Fedja van Huêt for NIGHT RUN
Jaap Spijkers for WAITER

BEST FEMALE SUPPORTING ROLE
Catherine ten Bruggencate for A THOUSAND KISSES
Peggy Jane de Schepper for NIGHT RUN
Halina Reijn for BLACK BOOK

BEST ACTOR
Maurits 'Negativ' Delchot for BOLLETJES BLUES
Raymond Thiry for NORTHERN LIGHT
Frank Lammers for NIGHT RUN

BEST ACTRESS
Melody Klaver for DEEP
Nicolette van Dam for ZOO RANGERS IN INDIA
Carice van Houten for BLACK BOOK

BEST SCRIPT
Karin Junger and Brigit Hillenius for BOLLETJES BLUES
Frank Ketelaar for ESCORT
Alex van Warmerdam for WAITER

BESTE DIRECTOR
David Lammers for NORTHERN LIGHT
Alex van Warmerdam for WAITER
Paul Verhoeven for BLACK BOOK

BESTE FEATURE FILM
NIGHT RUN by Wilant Boekelman and Jan van der Zanden for Waterland Film en TV WAITER by Marc van Warmerdam for Graniet Film BLACK BOOK by San Fu Maltha for Fu Works

DUTCH FILM CRITICS AWARD
FOREVER by Heddy Honigmann
NORTHERN LIGHT by David Lammers
WAITER by Alex by Warmerdam