About

Known credits:
37
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Place of birth:
Laag-Soeren, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Paula van der Oest

Overview

Paula van der Oest (born 1965) is a Dutch film director and screenwriter. Her 2001 film Zus & Zo was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. With her final exam at the Dutch Film and Television Academy, Zinderend, she won a Cannon Award in 1988. In the following years, she worked as an assistant director, until she returned in 1994 as a director. For the VPRO-series Lolamoviola she made the short movies Coma and Achilles En Het Zebrapad (Achilles and the Zebracrossing). With the former, she won a Golden Calf for the best television drama. In 1996 van der Oest made her first long movie: De nieuwe moeder (The New Mother). Her husband at the time, Theu Boermans, had a role in this movie (later, he would also have a role in Zus & Zo). De Trip Van Teetje (The Journey Of Teetje) was produced in 1998, with Cees Geel as a louche entrepreneur who buys a Russian cargo ship. With Zus & Zo, loosely based on Chekhov's The Three Sisters, van der Oest directed her first mainstream film in 2001. The realistic characters and the relations among the individuals from her former movies remained central, but there was more humour added, resulting in an Oscar nomination

Known for

Directing
2024 The Jewish Council Directing Director 69
Fair
2021 Love in a Bottle Directing Director 59
Average
2020 Kerstgezel.nl Directing Director N/A
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2020 The Bay of Silence Directing Director 56
Average
2017 Younger Days Directing Director 58
Average
2016 Tonio Directing Director 58
Average
2015 Noord Zuid Directing Director N/A
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2014 Accused Directing Director 60
Fair
2012 The Domino Effect Directing Director 58
Average
2011 Black Butterflies Directing Director 58
Average
2008 Tiramisu Directing Director 58
Average
2008 Wijster Directing Director N/A
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2004 Hidden Flaws Directing Director 59
Average
2004 Madame Jeanette Directing Director N/A
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2002 Moonlight Directing Director 59
Average
2002 Zus & Zo Directing Director 58
Average
1998 De Trip Van Teetje Directing Director 59
Average
1996 Another Mother Directing Director N/A
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Achilles en het zebrapad Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2022 Stromboli Writing Writer 58
Average
2021 Love in a Bottle Writing Screenplay 59
Average
2020 The Forgotten Battle Writing Writer 65
Fair
2018 All You Need Is Love Writing Screenplay 59
Average
2017 Younger Days Writing Writer 58
Average
2016 Petticoat Writing Writer N/A
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2015 Noord Zuid Writing Scenario Writer N/A
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2012 The Domino Effect Writing Writer 58
Average
2008 Tiramisu Writing Writer 58
Average
2002 Zus & Zo Writing Writer 58
Average
2001 Roos en Rana Writing Writer 59
Average
1996 Another Mother Writing Writer N/A
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Production
2022 Stromboli Production Producer 58
Average
2021 Love in a Bottle Production Producer 59
Average
2020 The Forgotten Battle Production Executive Producer 65
Fair
2020 Kerstgezel.nl Production Producer N/A
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2019 The Parts You Lose Production Executive Producer 60
Fair

Crew
Achilles en het zebrapad Crew Script N/A
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