# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philippe-van-leeuw
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:06:51.610Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philippe-van-leeuw"
name: "Philippe Van Leeuw"
slug: "philippe-van-leeuw"
description: "Philippe Van Leeuw is a Belgian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He made his feature-length debut in 2009 with The Day God Walked Away. In 2017, he wrote and directed Insyriated, which premiered at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. At the 8th Magritte Awards, the film won all six awards it was nominated for, tying the Magritte Awards record for most awards won, including Best Film and Best Director for Van Leeuw."
tagline: "Belgian film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Philippe_Van_Leeuw.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1954"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.54
  momentum:             0.7446808510638299
  historical:           8.736969333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0887375/"
    handle:    "nm0887375"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%BF_%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%83"
    title: "Філіпп ван Леу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%BE_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88"
    title: "فيليپ ڤان ليو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Van_Leeuw"
    title: "Philippe Van Leeuw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Van_Leeuw"
    title: "Philippe Van Leeuw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Van_Leeuw"
    title: "Philippe Van Leeuw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Van_Leeuw"
    title: "Philippe Van Leeuw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Van_Leeuw"
    title: "Philippe Van Leeuw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%83%2C_%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%BF"
    title: "Ван Леу, Филипп"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://rw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Van_Leeuw"
    title: "Philippe Van Leeuw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3380822"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1127719"
    title: "Philippe Van Leeuw"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump