Nikolai van der Heyde (23 January 1936 – 6 August 2020) was a Dutch film director and screenwriter.

In the same year he founded the film magazine Skoop together with Wim Verstappen and Pim de la Parra.

Partly with the support of beer magnate Alfred Heineken, he was able to make his first full-length film in 1966: A Morning of Six Weeks (Een Ochtend van Zes Weken).

Van der Heyde was a lover of Hollywood films, and would often choose English or American actors.

Van der Heyde died on 6 August 2020, at the age of 84 in the Rosa Spier House in Laren.