Magritte Award for Best First Feature Film

{{Infobox award

| name = Magritte Award for Best First Feature Film

| awarded_for =

| presenter = Académie André Delvaux

| country =

| year = 2013

| holder = Playground (2021)

| website = [http://lesmagritteducinema.com/ lesmagritteducinema.com]

}}

The Magritte Award for Best First Feature Film (French: Magritte du meilleur premier 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.{{cite news |url=http://www.lalibre.be/culture/cinema/article/616459/andre-delvaux-l-uvre-au-jour.html |title=André Delvaux, l'œuvre au jour |work=La Libre Belgique |first=Fernand |last=Denis |date=October 13, 2010 |accessdate=January 11, 2013 |language=French}}

It was introduced in 2013 as an audience award.{{cite web |title=Lancement d'un nouveau Magritte : Le Magritte du Premier Film 2013 |url=http://www.cinetelerevue.be/fr/lancement-dun-nouveau-magritte--le-magritte-du-premier-film-2013.html?cmp_id=7&news_id=21763 |website=Ciné Télé Revue |accessdate=January 15, 2016 |language=French |date=March 28, 2013}} However, its first winner Dead Man Talking was announced during the 66th Cannes Film Festival, three months later the 3rd Magritte Awards ceremony.{{cite news |title=Le Magritte du Premier film |url=http://www.cinevox.be/le-magritte-du-premier-film-dead-man-winning/ |accessdate=January 15, 2016 |work=Cinevox |date=May 20, 2013 |language=French}} In 2016, the Magritte Award for Best First Feature Film became a merit category. As of the 2022 ceremony, Playground is the most recent winner in this category.

Winners and nominees

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

=2010s=

width="100"\|Year ! width="300"\|English title ! width="300"\|Original title ! width="320"\|Director(s)
class="wikitable"
rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"\| 2012 (3rd)	style="background:#B0C4DE;" colspan="2"\| Dead Man Talking	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Patrick Ridremont
colspan="2"\| Mobile Home	{{ill\|François Pirot\|fr	ru\|Пиро, Франсуа\|uk\|Франсуа Піро}}
colspan="2"\| Torpedo	{{ill\|Matthieu Donck\|fr}}
rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"\| 2013 (4th)	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| A Song for My Mother	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Une chanson pour ma mère	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| {{ill\|Joël Franka\|fr}}
In The Bag of Flour	Le Sac de farine	Kadija Leclère
colspan="2"\| {{ill\|BXL/USA\|fr}}	Gaëtan Bevernaege
rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"\| 2014 (5th)	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| I'll Bury You	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Je te survivrai	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| {{ill\|Sylvestre Sbille\|fr}}
colspan="2"\| {{ill\|Marbie, star de Couillu-les-Deux-Églises\|fr}}	Dominique Smeets
Vertigo of Possibilities	Le Vertige des possibles	Vivianne Perelmuter
rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"\| 2015 (6th)	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| All Cats Are Grey	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Tous les chats sont gris	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Savina Dellicour
{{ill\|Next Year (film)\|lt=Next Year\|fr\|L'Année prochaine\|nl\|L'Année prochaine}}	L'Année prochaine	{{ill\|Vania Leturcq\|fr}}
Prejudice	Préjudice	{{ill\|Antoine Cuypers\|fr}}
rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"\| 2016 (7th)	style="background:#B0C4DE;" colspan="2"\| Keeper	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Guillaume Senez
\| Death by Death	Je me tue à le dire	{{ill\|Xavier Seron\|fr}}
colspan="2"\| Parasol	{{ill\|Valéry Rosier\|fr}}
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"\| 2017 (8th)	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Don't Tell Her	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Faut pas lui dire	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| {{ill\|Solange Cicurel\|fr}}
colspan="2"\| Even Lovers Get the Blues	Laurent Micheli
colspan="2"\| Sonar	Jean-Philippe Martin
colspan="2"\| Spit 'n' Split	Jérôme Vandewattyne
\| Staying in the Woods	Je suis resté dans les bois	Michaël Bier, Erika Sainte and {{ill\|Vincent Solheid\|fr}}
rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"\| 2018 (9th)	style="background:#B0C4DE;" colspan="2"\| Bitter Flowers	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Olivier Meys
\| Above the Law	Tueurs	{{ill\|François Troukens\|fa\|فرانسوا تروکنز\|fr	nl}} and {{ill\|Jean-François Hensgens\|fa\|ژان فرانسوا هنسگنس\|fr}}
\| The Benefit of the Doubt	Une Part d'ombre	{{ill\|Samuel Tilman\|fr}}
\| The Faithful Son	La Part sauvage	{{ill\|Guérin Van de Vorst\|fr}}
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"\| 2019 (10th)	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Our Mothers	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Nuestras madres	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| César Díaz
\| Alone at My Wedding	Seule à mon mariage	Marta Bergman
colspan="2"\| Escapada	Sarah Hirtt
\| For a Happy Life	Pour vivre heureux	Dimitri Linder and Salima Sarah Glamine
\| Girls on the Run	Cavale	Virginie Gourmel

=2020s=

width="100"\|Year ! width="300"\|English title ! width="300"\|Original title ! width="320"\|Director(s)
class="wikitable"
rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"\| 2020/21 (11th)	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Playground	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Un monde	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Laura Wandel
colspan="2"\| Jumbo	Zoé Wittock
\| Madly in Life	Une vie démente	Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni
\| Mother Schmuckers	Fils de plouc	Harpo Guit and Lenny Guit

References

Sources

{{cite web |last1=Engelen |first1=Aurore |title=Dead Man Talking lauréat du Magritte du Premier Film |url=http://cineuropa.org/nw.aspx?t=newsdetail&l=fr&did=238805 |publisher=Cineuropa |accessdate=January 21, 2016 |language=French |date=May 22, 2013}}
{{cite web |title=Magritte du Premier Film : deux sur trois pour les fonds régionaux |url=http://www.wallimage.be/newsfile.php?lang=fr&id=654 |publisher=Wallimage |accessdate=January 21, 2016 |language=French |date=January 25, 2014}}
{{cite web |title=Les trois films en tête du Magritte du premier film sont… |url=http://www.cinevox.be/les-trois-films-en-tete-du-magritte-du-premier-film-sont/ |work=Cinevox |accessdate=January 21, 2016 |language=French |date=January 26, 2015}}

Footnotes

External links

[http://www.lesmagritteducinema.com/ Magritte Awards official website]
[http://www.allocine.fr/festivals/festival-2775/palmares/prix-18355312/ Magritte Award for Best First Feature Film] at AlloCiné

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Category:Awards for best film

Category:Directorial debut film awards

Category:Lists of films by award

First Feature Film

width="100"\|Year ! width="300"\|English title ! width="300"\|Original title ! width="320"\|Director(s)
class="wikitable"
rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"\| 2012 (3rd)	style="background:#B0C4DE;" colspan="2"\| Dead Man Talking	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Patrick Ridremont
colspan="2"\| Mobile Home	{{ill\|François Pirot\|fr	ru\|Пиро, Франсуа\|uk\|Франсуа Піро}}
colspan="2"\| Torpedo	{{ill\|Matthieu Donck\|fr}}
rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"\| 2013 (4th)	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| A Song for My Mother	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Une chanson pour ma mère	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| {{ill\|Joël Franka\|fr}}
In The Bag of Flour	Le Sac de farine	Kadija Leclère
colspan="2"\| {{ill\|BXL/USA\|fr}}	Gaëtan Bevernaege
rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"\| 2014 (5th)	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| I'll Bury You	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Je te survivrai	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| {{ill\|Sylvestre Sbille\|fr}}
colspan="2"\| {{ill\|Marbie, star de Couillu-les-Deux-Églises\|fr}}	Dominique Smeets
Vertigo of Possibilities	Le Vertige des possibles	Vivianne Perelmuter
rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"\| 2015 (6th)	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| All Cats Are Grey	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Tous les chats sont gris	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Savina Dellicour
{{ill\|Next Year (film)\|lt=Next Year\|fr\|L'Année prochaine\|nl\|L'Année prochaine}}	L'Année prochaine	{{ill\|Vania Leturcq\|fr}}
Prejudice	Préjudice	{{ill\|Antoine Cuypers\|fr}}
rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"\| 2016 (7th)	style="background:#B0C4DE;" colspan="2"\| Keeper	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Guillaume Senez
\| Death by Death	Je me tue à le dire	{{ill\|Xavier Seron\|fr}}
colspan="2"\| Parasol	{{ill\|Valéry Rosier\|fr}}
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"\| 2017 (8th)	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Don't Tell Her	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Faut pas lui dire	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| {{ill\|Solange Cicurel\|fr}}
colspan="2"\| Even Lovers Get the Blues	Laurent Micheli
colspan="2"\| Sonar	Jean-Philippe Martin
colspan="2"\| Spit 'n' Split	Jérôme Vandewattyne
\| Staying in the Woods	Je suis resté dans les bois	Michaël Bier, Erika Sainte and {{ill\|Vincent Solheid\|fr}}
rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"\| 2018 (9th)	style="background:#B0C4DE;" colspan="2"\| Bitter Flowers	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Olivier Meys
\| Above the Law	Tueurs	{{ill\|François Troukens\|fa\|فرانسوا تروکنز\|fr	nl}} and {{ill\|Jean-François Hensgens\|fa\|ژان فرانسوا هنسگنس\|fr}}
\| The Benefit of the Doubt	Une Part d'ombre	{{ill\|Samuel Tilman\|fr}}
\| The Faithful Son	La Part sauvage	{{ill\|Guérin Van de Vorst\|fr}}
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"\| 2019 (10th)	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Our Mothers	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| Nuestras madres	style="background:#B0C4DE;"\| César Díaz
\| Alone at My Wedding	Seule à mon mariage	Marta Bergman
colspan="2"\| Escapada	Sarah Hirtt
\| For a Happy Life	Pour vivre heureux	Dimitri Linder and Salima Sarah Glamine
\| Girls on the Run	Cavale	Virginie Gourmel