Editing Paul Verhoeven (section)

===Filmmaking in the United States (1983–2000)===
Gerard Soeteman also wrote the script for Verhoeven's first English-language film, ''[[Flesh and Blood (1985 film)|Flesh and Blood]]'' (1985), which starred [[Rutger Hauer]] and [[Jennifer Jason Leigh]]. Verhoeven moved to Hollywood for a wider range of opportunities in filmmaking. Working in the U.S., he made a serious change in style, directing big-budget, violent, special-effects-heavy hits ''RoboCop'' (1987) and ''Total Recall'' (1990)⁠ — each of which won an [[Academy Special Achievement Award]]: ''[[RoboCop]]'' for Sound Effects Editing and ''[[Total Recall (1990 film)|Total Recall]]'' for Visual Effects.

[[File:Basic Instinct Cannes 1992.jpg|thumb|right|Presentation of ''[[Basic Instinct]]'' at the [[1992 Cannes Film Festival]]. Left to right: [[Jeanne Tripplehorn]], [[Michael Douglas]], Martine Tours (Verhoeven's wife), Verhoeven, [[Sharon Stone]] and [[Mario Kassar]].]]

Verhoeven followed those successes with ''[[Basic Instinct]]'' (1992), an erotic thriller. The film's most notorious scene shows [[Sharon Stone]]'s character in a police interrogation, where she uncrosses her legs, briefly revealing her vulva (she does not wear underwear underneath her skirt). The film received two Academy Award nominations, for Film Editing and for Original Music, and was the ninth-highest-grossing film of the year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1993/B?qt-honorees=1#block-quicktabs-honorees |title=1993 Nominees (B) |work=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |access-date=3 February 2017}}</ref>

During this time, Verhoeven also worked on creating an historical epic based around the [[Crusades]] that would have starred [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]. It went into pre-production in 1993, but a year later the studio backing it, [[Carolco Pictures|Carolco]], pulled funding for the project. Verhoeven would continue to discuss it throughout the 1990s.<ref>{{cite web |last=Brew |first=Simon |title=The 7 films that Arnold Schwarzenegger never made |url=https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/14094/the-7-films-that-arnold-schwarzenegger-never-made |website=[[Den of Geek]] |date=3 March 2009 |access-date=25 October 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Vigilla |first=Hubert |title=From Hell: Paul Verhoeven/Arnold Schwarzenegger's Crusade |url=https://www.flixist.com/from-hell-paul-verhoeven-arnold-schwarzenegger-s-crusade-207103.phtml |website=Flixist |date=29 February 2012 |access-date=25 October 2019 |archive-date=25 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191025170518/https://www.flixist.com/from-hell-paul-verhoeven-arnold-schwarzenegger-s-crusade-207103.phtml |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Yakir |first=Dan |title=Starship Instincts |url=https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-223/page/n33 |journal=[[Starlog]] |issue=223 |pages=34–35 |date=February 1996 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>

Verhoeven's next film was the poorly received, [[NC-17]]-rated ''[[Showgirls]]'' (1995), about a stripper in [[Las Vegas]] trying to make a career as a showgirl. It won seven [[1995 Golden Raspberry Awards|Golden Raspberry Awards]], including Worst Film and Worst Director; Verhoeven became the first director to accept his award in person. To date, he is one of the few people to have [[List of people who have accepted Golden Raspberry Awards|accepted their Golden Raspberry awards]] in person, and the first to directly attend the ceremony to receive it. ''Showgirls'' enjoyed a large amount of success on the [[home video]] market, generating more than $100&nbsp;million from video rentals,<ref>{{cite magazine |title='Showgirls': Paul Verhoeven on Greatest Stripper Movie Ever |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/showgirls-paul-verhoeven-on-the-greatest-stripper-movie-ever-made-54740/ |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=22 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611131729/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/showgirls-paul-verhoeven-on-the-greatest-stripper-movie-ever-made-54740/ |archive-date=11 June 2020}}</ref> and became one of [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]]'s top twenty all-time bestsellers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mgm.com/title_title.php?title_star=SHOWGRLS |title=Showgirls DVD |work=MGM |date=28 April 2007 |access-date=25 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070428172642/http://www.mgm.com/title_title.php?title_star=SHOWGRLS |archive-date=28 April 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

After ''Basic Instinct'' and ''Showgirls'', Verhoeven returned to the science fiction genre, utilizing the graphic violence and special-effects tropes that had marked his earlier films, making ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]'' (1997), loosely based on the novel of the same name by [[Robert A. Heinlein]],<ref name="gemsbok">{{cite web |last=Podgorski |first=Daniel |title=Poking Fun at Militarism: How Paul Verhoeven's Cult Classic ''Starship Troopers'' Willfully Discards Robert Heinlein's Novel |url=http://thegemsbok.com/art-reviews-and-articles/thursday-theater-starship-troopers-paul-verhoeven-robert-heinlein/ |website=The Gemsbok |date=4 February 2016 |access-date=7 December 2016}}</ref> as well as ''[[Hollow Man]]'' (2000). Each film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects. He also served as an executive producer on an animated TV series called ''[[Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles]]'', which was based on the movie and novel of ''Starship Troopers''.<ref name=Perlmutter>{{cite book |last1=Perlmutter |first1=David |title=The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows |date=2018 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1538103739 |pages=518–519}}</ref> The series only ran for a single season, from August 1999 until April 2000.