Magritte Award for Best Film

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.

Magritte Award for Best Film
Presented by	Académie André Delvaux
First award	2011
Currently held by	Love According to Dalva (2023)
Website	lesmagritteducinema.com

Winners and nominees

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

2010s

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)
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

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)
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