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.
[1] 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.
[2] After receiving the Diamond Film, Paul Verhoeven says about Black Book: It is what we hoped for.
So the public thinks: 'it can't be as bad as it normally is, let's go to a Dutch film again.'