The 9th Magritte Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie André Delvaux , honored the best films of 2018 in Belgium and took place on 2 February 2019 at the Square in the historic site of Mont des Arts , Brussels , beginning at 8:00 p.m. CET . During the ceremony, the Académie André Delvaux presented Magritte Awards in 22 categories.[1] The ceremony was televised in Belgium by La Deux . Directors Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier presided the ceremony, while comedian Alex Vizorek hosted the show for the first time.[2] [3]
The nominees for the 9th Magritte Awards were announced on 11 January 2019.[4] Films with the most nominations were Above the Law and Girl with nine, followed by Let the Corpses Tan with eight, and The Benefit of the Doubt and Our Struggles with seven. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on 2 February 2019.[5] Our Struggles won five awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Guillaume Senez . Other multiple winners were Girl with four awards and Let the Corpses Tan with two.
Winners and nominees
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 Production Design
Best Costume Design
Best Original Score
Best Sound
Best Editing
Best Fiction Short Film
Icarus (Icare ) – Nicolas Boucart
Calamity – Séverine De Streyker and Maxime Feyers
Castle to Castle (D'un château l'autre ) – Emmanuel Marre
A Sister (Une Soeur ) – Delphine Girard
Best Animated Short Film
The Proposal (La Bague au doigt ) – Gerlando Infuso
Carnal Symbiosis (Simbiosis Carnal ) – Rocío Álvarez
The Horn Quartet (Le Quatuor à cornes ) – Arnaud Demuynck and Benjamin Bottela
Not Today – Marine Jacob
Best Documentary Film
So Help Me God (Ni juge, ni soumise ) – Jean Libon
Cowboys and Indians: the Cinema of Patar and Aubier (Des Cowboys et des Indiens, le cinéma de Patar et Aubier ) – Fabrice du Welz
Holy Tour (La Grand-Messe ) – Valéry Rosier and Méryl Fortunat-Rossi
Manu – Emmanuelle Bonmariage
Mitra – Jorge León
Honorary Magritte Award
Films with multiple nominations and awards
The following nine films received multiple nominations.
The following three films received multiple awards.
See also
References
External links
Merit awards Award ceremonies
(years are of film release; ceremonies are following year)