Lukas Dhont Archives - Golden Globes

Lukas Dhont: 2 Golden Globe Nominations ‘Is Nothing but Happiness’

"Girl," the story of a young trans dancer, was nominated as best foreign film at the 2018 Golden Globes. "Close," about the friendship of two teenagers who are tragically separated, was nominated for foreign film at the 2023 Golden Globes.

Lukas Dhont: ‘Avoir été nominé 2 fois aux Golden Globes, cela n’est que du bonheur !’

"Girl" sur l’histoire d’une jeune danseuse trans avait été nominé dans la catégorie du meilleur film étranger aux Golden Globes 2018. "Close" sur l’histoire d’amitié de deux adolescents séparés, de manière tragique, faisait partie des nominés pour le meilleur film étranger aux Golden Globes 2023.

Festivals

Film Fest Gent Covered the Red Carpet in Bouquets of Flowers Opening Night

On October 11th, the 49th Film Fest Gent in Belgium kicked off its official competition in unique fashion: the entire red carpet was covered with hundreds of colorful bouquets of flowers to celebrate Close, the new film by Lukas Dhont. The director, born and raised in Ghent, is no stranger to the festival.

Interviews

Lukas Dhont, Belgian Filmmaker – Golden Globes Around the World Podcast

When Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont won the 2018 Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard prize for his trans-female ballet dancer film debut, Girl, he couldn’t have imagined four years later he would be back – not just showing his second film, Close, but taking home the Grand Prize. “When I heard that the Cannes film festival wanted to put this film in competition among many directors that I deeply admire, like Kelly Reichardt, Claire Denis, and David Cronenberg, I was in an Airbnb in Amsterdam and I jumped around for 25 minutes straight and then called my mother and shouted into the phone!” the writer-director told fellow Belgian colleague, HFPA member Greet Ramaekers, in our “Golden Globes Around the World” podcast.

Golden Globe Awards

76th Golden Globe Arrivals: Lukas Dhont & Victor Polster

Golden Globe Awards

Nominated Directors Hold Foreign Film Symposium

As has become tradition the directors of the five Golden Globe nominated foreign language films convened at the American Cinematheque for the Foreign Film Symposium. The roundtable discussion featured the directors of the five nominated films: Alfonso Cuarón (Roma), Lukas Dhont (Girl), Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (Never Look Away), Hirokazu Koreeda (Shoplifters) and Nadine Labaki (Capernaum).