12th Magritte Awards

12th Magritte Awards
12th Magritte Awards
	Official poster
Date	4 March 2023
Site	Théâtre National; Marais-Jacqmain, Brussels, Belgium
Hosted by	Patrick Ridremont
Highlights
Best Film	Nobody Has to Know
Most awards	Close (7)
Most nominations	Close (10)
Television coverage
Network	RTBF
	← 11th; Magritte Awards; 13th →;

The 12th Magritte Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie André Delvaux, honored the best films of 2022 in Belgium. It took place on 4 March 2023, at the Théâtre National, in the historic site of Marais-Jacqmain, Brussels. During the ceremony, the Académie André Delvaux presented Magritte Awards in 23 categories. The ceremony was televised in Belgium by La Trois. Actress Lubna Azabal presided the ceremony, while director Patrick Ridremont hosted the show for the first time.^[1]

The nominees for the 12th Magritte Awards were announced on 10 February 2023.^[2] Films with the most nominations were Close with ten, followed by Zero Fucks Given with nine and Nobody Has to Know with seven. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on 4 March 2023.^[3] Nobody Has to Know won two awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Bouli Lanners. Other multiple winners were Close with seven, Zero Fucks Given with three, and The Night of the 12th with two.

Winners and nominees

Best Film

Nobody Has to Know
- Animals
- The Hive (La Ruche)
- Tori and Lokita (Tori et Lokita)
- Zero Fucks Given (Rien à foutre)

Most Promising Actress

Sophie Breyer – The Hive (La Ruche)
- Elsa Houben – Dark Heart of the Forest (Le Cœur noir des forêts)
- Joely Mbundu – Tori and Lokita (Tori et Lokita)
- Mara Taquin – The Hive (La Ruche)

Best Screenplay

Close – Lukas Dhont and Angelo Tijssens
- Animals – Nabil Ben Yadir and Antoine Cuypers
- Nobody Has to Know – Bouli Lanners
- Zero Fucks Given (Rien à foutre) – Julie Lecoustre and Emmanuel Marre

Best First Feature Film

Zero Fucks Given (Rien à foutre)
- Aya
- The Hive (La Ruche)
- Yuku and the Himalayan Flower (Yuku et la Fleur de l'Himalaya)

Best Flemish Film

Close
- The Eight Mountains (Le otto montagne)
- Nowhere
- Rebel

Best Foreign Film in Coproduction

The Night of the 12th (La Nuit du 12)
- Clara Sola
- Madeleine Collins
- Singing Jailbirds (À l'ombre des filles)
- Where Is Anne Frank

Best Cinematography

Close – Frank van den Eeden
- Inexorable – Manuel Dacosse
- Zero Fucks Given (Rien à foutre) – Olivier Boonjing

Best Production Design

Close – Eve Martin
- Nobody Has to Know – Paul Rouschop
- Zero Fucks Given (Rien à foutre) – Anna Falguères

Best Costume Design

Zero Fucks Given (Rien à foutre) – Prunelle Rulens
- Close – Manu Verschueren
- Nobody Has to Know – Élise Ancion

Best Original Score

Rebel – Hannes De Maeyer, Oum, Aboubakr Bensaihi
- The Hive (La Ruche) – Fabian Fiorini
- Inexorable – Vincent Cahay

Best Sound

Animals – François Aubinet, Mathieu Cox, Pierre Mertens, David Vranken, Philippe Van Leer
- The Night of the 12th (La Nuit du 12) – François Maurel, Olivier Mortier, Luc Thomas
- Nobody Has to Know – Marc Bastien, Thomas Gauder, Etienne Carton, Cameron Mercer, Philippe Van Leer

Best Editing

Zero Fucks Given (Rien à foutre) – Nicolas Rumpl
- Close – Alain Dessauvage
- Nobody Has to Know – Ewin Ryckaert

Best Fiction Short Film

Ma Gueule – Gregory Carnol, Thibaut Wohlfahrt
- Drame 71 – Guillaume Lion
- Oysters (Les Huîtres) – Maïa Descamps
- Patanegra – Méryl Fortunat-Rossi

Best Animated Short Film

Cuddle (Câline) – Margot Reumont
- The Big Tantrum (Grosse Colère) – Célia Tisserant and Arnaud Demuynck
- Inglorious Liaisons (Les Liaisons Foireuses) – Chloé Alliez and Violette Delvoye
- The Summer Holidays (Les Grandes Vacances) – Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier

Best Documentary Film

Soy libre – Laure Portier
- Dreaming Walls – Amélie van Elmbt and Maya Duverdier
- Empire of Silence (L'Empire du silence) – Thierry Michel
- The End of Innocence (Petites) – Pauline Beugnies
- I Am Chance – Marc-Henri Wajnberg

Best Documentary Short Film

Arbres – Jean-Benoît Ugeux
- Call It the Burning (On la nomme la brûlure) – Bénédicte Liénard and Mary Jimenez
- Dernier Voyage au Laos – Manon Saysouk
- Masks (Masques) – Olivier Smolders

Honorary Magritte Award

Agnès Jaoui

Films with multiple nominations and awards

The following eight films received multiple nominations.

Ten: Close
Nine: Zero Fucks Given
Seven: Nobody Has to Know
Six: Animals
Five: The Hive, Tori and Lokita
Four: Rebel
Three: Inexorable, The Night of the 12th
Two: Singing Jailbirds

The following four films received multiple awards.

Seven: Close
Three: Zero Fucks Given
Two: Nobody Has to Know, The Night of the 12th

References

^ "28 docs pré-sélectionnés pour les Magritte 2023". Cinevox (in French). 25 November 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
^ Bradfer, Fabienne (10 February 2023). "Close arrive en tête des nominations des Magritte 2023". Le Soir (in French). Retrieved 28 February 2023.
^ Heyrendt, Hubert (5 March 2023). "Close et Bouli Lanners, grands gagnants des Magritte 2023". La Libre Belgique (in French). Retrieved 5 March 2023.

External links

[1] "28 docs pré-sélectionnés pour les Magritte 2023". Cinevox (in French). 25 November 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2023.

[2] Bradfer, Fabienne (10 February 2023). "Close arrive en tête des nominations des Magritte 2023". Le Soir (in French). Retrieved 28 February 2023.

[3] Heyrendt, Hubert (5 March 2023). "Close et Bouli Lanners, grands gagnants des Magritte 2023". La Libre Belgique (in French). Retrieved 5 March 2023.

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