Nicole Van Goethem

Nicole Van Goethem (31 May 1941 – 3 March 2000) was a Belgian animator and illustrator. She wrote and directed A Greek Tragedy, winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1987.

Biography Van Goethem was born in 1941 in Antwerp. She studied applied arts at the Sint Maria Instituut in Antwerp, Western concert flute at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp and evening courses at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the same city. and the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1987. She then started working on third movie, Living Apart Together, scheduled to be about 8 minutes long and with about 75% of the work done at the time of her death.

Exhibitions "Nicole van Goethem: Drawing the Film", Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (12 December 1987 until 7 February 1988) and Cinémathèque québécoise (Montreal, Canada), 1 September 1988 until 30 September 1988