Magritte Award for Best Film

Belgian film award

Magritte Award for Best Film

Presented by| Académie André Delvaux
First award| 2011
Currently held by| Love According to Dalva (2023)
Website| lesmagritteducinema.com

The Magritte Award for Best Film (French: Magritte du meilleur film) is an award presented annually by the Académie André Delvaux. It is one of the Magritte Awards, which were established to recognize excellence in Belgian cinematic achievements.[1] The 1st Magritte Awards ceremony was held in 2011 with Mr. Nobody receiving the award for Best Film.[2] As of the 2024 ceremony, Love According to Dalva is the most recent winner.

## Winners and nominees

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In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by the other nominees.

### 2010s

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Year | English title | Original title | Director(s)

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2010
(1st) | Mr. Nobody | Jaco Van Dormael
Amer | Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
The Barons | Les Barons | Nabil Ben Yadir
Illegal | Illégal | Olivier Masset-Depasse
2011
(2nd) | The Giants | Les Géants | Bouli Lanners
Beyond the Steppes [fr; pl] | Vanja d'Alcantara
The Fairy | La Fée | Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon
The Kid with a Bike | Le Gamin au vélo | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
2012
(3rd) | Our Children | À perdre la raison | Joachim Lafosse
Dead Man Talking | Patrick Ridremont
Mobile Home | François Pirot [fr; ru; uk]
One Night | 38 témoins | Lucas Belvaux
2013
(4th) | Ernest & Celestine | Ernest et Célestine | Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner
In the Name of the Son | Au nom du fils | Vincent Lannoo
Kinshasa Kids | Marc-Henri Wajnberg
Tango libre | Frédéric Fonteyne
The World Belongs to Us [fr; nl] | Le Monde nous appartient | Stephan Streker
2014
(5th) | Two Days, One Night | Deux jours, une nuit | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Henri | Yolande Moreau
The Marchers | La Marche | Nabil Ben Yadir
Not My Type | Pas son genre | Lucas Belvaux
Scouting for Zebras | Les Rayures du zèbre | Benoît Mariage
2015
(6th) | The Brand New Testament | Le Tout Nouveau Testament | Jaco Van Dormael
All Cats Are Grey | Tous les chats sont gris | Savina Dellicour
I'm Dead But I Have Friends | Je suis mort mais j'ai des amis | Guillaume Malandrin [fr] and Stéphane Malandrin [fr]
Melody | Bernard Bellefroid
Prejudice | Préjudice | Antoine Cuypers [fr]
2016
(7th) | The First, the Last | Les Premiers, les Derniers | Bouli Lanners
After Love | L'Économie du couple | Joachim Lafosse
Death by Death | Je me tue à le dire | Xavier Seron [fr]
Keeper | Guillaume Senez
Parasol | Valéry Rosier [fr]
2017
(8th) | Insyriated | Philippe Van Leeuw
Blind Spot | Dode Hoek | Nabil Ben Yadir
Lost in Paris | Paris pieds nus | Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon
This Is Our Land | Chez nous | Lucas Belvaux
A Wedding | Noces | Stephan Streker
2018
(9th) | Our Struggles | Nos batailles | Guillaume Senez
Above the Law | Tueurs | François Troukens [fa; fr; nl] and Jean-François Hensgens [fa; fr]
Bitter Flowers | Olivier Meys
Mon Ket | François Damiens
Let the Corpses Tan | Laissez bronzer les cadavres | Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
2019
(10th) | Mothers' Instinct | Duelles | Olivier Masset-Depasse
Alone at My Wedding | Seule à mon mariage | Marta Bergman
Lola | Lola vers la mer | Laurent Micheli
Our Mothers | Nuestras madres | César Díaz
Young Ahmed | Le Jeune Ahmed | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

### 2020s

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Year | English title | Original title | Director(s)

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2020/21
(11th) | Madly in Life | Une vie démente | Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni
Adoration | Fabrice Du Welz
Playground | Un monde | Laura Wandel
The Restless | Les Intranquilles | Joachim Lafosse
Working Girls | Filles de joie | Frédéric Fonteyne and Anne Paulicevich
2022
(12th) | Nobody Has to Know | Bouli Lanners
Animals | Nabil Ben Yadir
The Hive | La Ruche | Christophe Hermans
Tori and Lokita | Tori et Lokita | Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
Zero Fucks Given | Rien à foutre | Emmanuel Marre and Julie Lecoustre
2023
(13th) | Love According to Dalva | Dalva | Emmanuelle Nicot
The Lost Boys | Le Paradis | Zeno Graton
Omen | Augure | Baloji
The Experience of Love | Le Syndrome des amours passées | Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni
Time Out | Temps mort | Eve Duchemin
2024
(14th) | Amal | Jawad Rhalib
It's Raining in the House | Il pleut dans la maison | Paloma Sermon-Daï
A Missing Part | Une part manquante | Guillaume Senez
Night Call | La nuit se traîne | Michiel Blanchart
Through the Night | Quitter la nuit | Delphine Girard

## References

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1. ^ Denis, Fernand (October 13, 2010). "André Delvaux, l'œuvre au jour". La Libre Belgique (in French). Retrieved January 11, 2013.
2. ^ "Le cinéma belge était à l'honneur lors de la Première édition des Magritte du cinéma belge francophone". Moniteur du film (in French). Archived from the original on 2012-12-05. Retrieved January 1, 2014.

## External links

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* Magritte Awards official website
* Magritte Award for Best Film at AlloCiné

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Magritte Awards

* Académie André Delvaux
* Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

Merit awards|

* Best Film
* Best Director
* Best Actor
* Best Actress
* Best Supporting Actor
* Best Supporting Actress
* Most Promising Actor
* Most Promising Actress
* Best Screenplay
* Best First Feature Film
* Best Flemish Film
* Best Foreign Film in Coproduction
* Best Cinematography
* Best Costume Design
* Best Editing
* Best Original Score
* Best Production Design
* Best Sound

Special awards|

* Honorary Award

Award ceremonies|

* 2010
* 2011
* 2012
* 2013
* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* 2017
* 2018
* 2019
* 2020/21
* 2022
* 2023
* 2024

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Magritte Award for Best Film

* Mr. Nobody (2010)
* The Giants (2011)
* Our Children (2012)
* Ernest & Celestine (2013)
* Two Days, One Night (2014)
* The Brand New Testament (2015)
* The First, the Last (2016)
* Insyriated (2017)
* Our Struggles (2018)
* Mothers' Instinct (2019)
* Madly in Life (2021)
* Nobody Has to Know (2022)
* Love According to Dalva (2023)
* Night Call (2024)

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