Magritte Award for Best Director

Magritte Award for Best Director
Magritte Award for Best Director
Presented by	Académie André Delvaux
First awarded	2011
Currently held by	Laura Wandel, Playground (2021)
Website	lesmagritteducinema.com

The Magritte Award for Best Director (French: Magritte du meilleur réalisateur) is an award presented annually by the Académie André Delvaux. It is given in honor of a film director who has exhibited outstanding directing while working within the film industry. 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 Jaco Van Dormael receiving the award for his work in Mr. Nobody.^[2] As of the 2022 ceremony, Laura Wandel is the most recent winner in this category for her work in Playground.

Winners and nominees

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

2010s

Year	Director(s)	English title	Original title
2010 (1st)	Jaco Van Dormael	Mr. Nobody
	Joachim Lafosse	Private Lessons	Élève libre
	Olivier Masset-Depasse	Illegal	Illégal
	Nabil Ben Yadir	The Barons	Les Barons
2011 (2nd)	Bouli Lanners	The Giants	Les Géants
	Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon	The Fairy	La Fée
	Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne	The Kid with a Bike	Le Gamin au vélo
	Sam Garbarski	A Distant Neighborhood	Quartier lointain
2012 (3rd)	Joachim Lafosse	Our Children	À perdre la raison
	Lucas Belvaux	One Night	38 témoins
	François Pirot [fr; ru; uk]	Mobile Home
	Patrick Ridremont	Dead Man Talking
2013 (4th)	Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar	Ernest & Celestine	Ernest et Célestine
	Frédéric Fonteyne	Tango libre
	Sam Garbarski	Vijay and I
	Vincent Lannoo	In the Name of the Son	Au nom du fils
2014 (5th)	Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne	Two Days, One Night	Deux jours, une nuit
	Lucas Belvaux	Not My Type	Pas son genre
	Nabil Ben Yadir	The Marchers	La Marche
	Yolande Moreau	Henri
2015 (6th)	Jaco Van Dormael	The Brand New Testament	Le Tout Nouveau Testament
	Bernard Bellefroid	Melody
	Savina Dellicour	All Cats Are Grey	Tous les chats sont gris
	Fabrice Du Welz	Alleluia
2016 (7th)	Bouli Lanners	The First, the Last	Les Premiers, les Derniers
	Joachim Lafosse	After Love	L'Économie du couple
	Valéry Rosier [fr]	Parasol
	Xavier Seron [fr]	Death by Death	Je me tue à le dire
2017 (8th)	Philippe Van Leeuw	Insyriated
	Lucas Belvaux	This Is Our Land	Chez nous
	Nabil Ben Yadir	Blind Spot	Dode Hoek
	Stephan Streker	A Wedding	Noces
2018 (9th)	Guillaume Senez	Our Struggles	Nos batailles
	Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani	Let the Corpses Tan	Laissez bronzer les cadavres
	Olivier Meys	Bitter Flowers
	François Troukens [fa; fr; nl] and Jean-François Hensgens [fa; fr]	Above the Law	Tueurs
2019 (10th)	Olivier Masset-Depasse	Mothers' Instinct	Duelles
	Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne	Young Ahmed	Le Jeune Ahmed
	César Díaz	Our Mothers	Nuestras madres
	Laurent Micheli	Lola	Lola vers la mer

2020s

Year	Director(s)	English title	Original title
2020/21 (11th)	Laura Wandel	Playground	Un monde
	Fabrice Du Welz	Adoration
	Joachim Lafosse	The Restless	Les Intranquilles
	Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni	Madly in Life	Une vie démente

References

^ Denis, Fernand (October 13, 2010). "André Delvaux, l'œuvre au jour". La Libre Belgique (in French). Retrieved January 11, 2013.
^ "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

[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.

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