- On April 30th 2006 he received on the Queens birthday The Order of Orange Nassau award for services to the Dutch film industry over the last 40 years. The burgomaster of Zandvoort pinned the award on Thys during a meeting at the town council.
- In 1979 Thys Ockersen produced with Wim Lindner a screenwriters seminar in the Dutch Film Museum in Amsterdam. To improve the quality of the dutch screenwriters for movies and TV over a hundred people were invited to attend for four weeks to be lectured by three teachers from the American Film Institute: William Fadiman, John Bloch and Vincent DiPersio. Bloch and Fadiman had already done their screenwriters seminar in Belgium. This was a huge success. So was the dutch seminar. Four guest lecturers were invited: Ernest Lehman, Claude Goeretta, Ken Loach and Paul Schrader. Thys covered this seminar with a documentary for dutch TV.
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