I'm Not A Robot wins Academy Award!

I'm Not A Robot by Victoria Warmerdam has won an Academy Award! Victoria Warmerdam's film received the Oscar® in the Best Live Action Short category.

"It's such an honor", Victoria Warmerdam said during her onstage speech at the 97th Academy Awards. The director of I'm Not A Robot thanked her entire cast and crew ("your heart and soul is in every frame"), and put leading actor Ellen Parren in the spotlight: "You are out of this world." Victoria then thanked her producer and partner Trent, who was on stage with her. 'We level-headed Dutch people don't say this often, but I love you.'

'This means so much to us, especially because no Dutch people had been nominated in this category since the 1960s. So we were already very proud to be here at all', Victoria and Trent said to ANP after the ceremony. 'To also win, that's really unreal.'

I'm Not A Robot, produced by OAK Motion Pictures, is about Lara, who begins to doubt her own humanity after a failed Captcha test. The film can be viewed here.

The win for I'm Not A Robot is the first Academy Award for a Dutch production since Father and Daughter by Michaël Dudok de Wit in 2000. A year ago, Dutch cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema won an award for Oppenheimer.

Photo: Etienne Laurent / The Academy