Career Short films and TV series (1960–1969) Verhoeven graduated with a doctorandus (MSc) with a double major, in Mathematics and Physics. Later, beginning in 1955, he studied at Leiden University. Verhoeven attended public secondary school Gymnasium Haganum in The Hague. Other fiction he liked were Frankenstein and the Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom series. Verhoeven liked comic drawing he created The Killer, a character in a detailed story of revenge. The character Dick Bos is a private detective who fights crime using jujutsu. Verhoeven was a fan of the Dutch comic Dick Bos. Verhoeven and his father went ten times to see The War of the Worlds (1953). Verhoeven and his father also liked to see American films that were in the cinema after the liberation, such as The Crimson Pirate (1952).
Sometimes the pair watched informative films at home with the school's film projector. Verhoeven's father became head teacher at the Van Heutszschool in The Hague, and Paul attended this school. As a small child he experienced the war as an exciting adventure and compares himself with the character Bill Rowan in Hope and Glory (1987). From this period, Verhoeven mentioned in interviews, he remembers images of violence, burning houses, dead bodies on the street, and continuous danger. Their neighbours' house was hit and Verhoeven's parents were almost killed when bombs fell on a street crossing. The Verhoeven house was near a German military base with V1 and V2-rocket launchers, which was repeatedly bombed by Allied forces. In 1943 the family moved to The Hague, the location of the German headquarters in the Netherlands during World War II. His family lived in the village of Slikkerveer. Paul Verhoeven was born in Amsterdam on 18 July 1938, the son of a school teacher, Wim Verhoeven, and a hat maker, Nel van Schaardenburg.
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film (2016)