8th Magritte Awards

8th Magritte Awards
8th Magritte Awards
	Official poster
Date	3 February 2018
Site	Square; Mont des Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Hosted by	Fabrizio Rongione
Produced by	Olivier Auclair
Directed by	Vincent J. Gustin
Highlights
Best Film	Insyriated
Most awards	Insyriated (6)
Most nominations	A Wedding (8)
Television coverage
Network	RTBF
	← 7th; Magritte Awards; 9th →;

The 8th Magritte Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie André Delvaux, honored the best films of 2017 in Belgium and took place on 3 February 2018 at the Square in the historic site of Mont des Arts, Brussels, beginning at 8:45 p.m. CET. During the ceremony, the Académie André Delvaux presented Magritte Awards in 22 categories. The ceremony was televised in Belgium by La Deux, after RTBF took over broadcast rights from BeTV.^[1] Actress Natacha Régnier presided the ceremony, while Fabrizio Rongione hosted the show for the third time.^[2]^[3]

The nominees for the 8th Magritte Awards were announced on 11 January 2018.^[4] Films with the most nominations were A Wedding with eight, followed by This Is Our Land with seven and Insyriated with six. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 3, 2018.^[5] Insyriated won six awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Philippe Van Leeuw. Other multiple winners were A Wedding and Raw with two awards each.

Winners and nominees

Best Film

Insyriated
- Blind Spot (Dode Hoek)
- Lost in Paris (Paris pieds nus)
- This Is Our Land (Chez nous)
- A Wedding (Noces)

Best Supporting Actor

Jean-Benoît Ugeux – Racer and the Jailbird (Le Fidèle)
- Laurent Capelluto – Don't Tell Her (Faut pas lui dire)
- Patrick Descamps – This Is Our Land (Chez nous)
- David Murgia – Blind Spot (Dode Hoek)

Best Supporting Actress

Aurora Marion – A Wedding (Noces)
- Isabelle de Hertogh – 150 Milligrams (La Fille de Brest)
- Lucie Debay – The Confession (La Confession)
- Yolande Moreau – A Woman's Life (Une vie)

Most Promising Actor

Soufiane Chilah – Blind Spot (Dode Hoek)
- Mistral Guidotti – Home
- Baptiste Sornin – Sonar
- Arieh Worthalter – Past Imperfect (Le Passé devant nous)

Most Promising Actress

Maya Dory – Angel (Mon ange)
- Adriana de Fonseca – Even Lovers Get the Blues
- Fantine Harduin – Happy End
- Lena Suijkerbuik – Home

Best Screenplay

Insyriated – Philippe Van Leeuw
- King of the Belgians – Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth
- This Is Our Land (Chez nous) – Lucas Belvaux
- A Wedding (Noces) – Stephan Streker

Best First Feature Film

Don't Tell Her (Faut pas lui dire)
- Even Lovers Get the Blues
- Sonar
- Spit 'n' Split
- Staying in the Woods (Je suis resté dans les bois)

Best Flemish Film

Home
- Cargo
- King of the Belgians
- Racer and the Jailbird (Le Fidèle)

Best Foreign Film in Coproduction

Raw (Grave)
- Graduation (Bacalaureat)
- I, Daniel Blake
- Loveless (Nelyubov)

Best Cinematography

Insyriated – Virginie Surdej
- Angel (Mon ange) – Juliette Van Dormael
- Raw (Grave) – Ruben Impens

Best Production Design

Raw (Grave) – Laurie Colson
- Angel (Mon ange) – Luc Noël
- A Wedding (Noces) – Catherine Cosme

Best Costume Design

A Wedding (Noces) – Sophie Van Den Keybus
- King of the Belgians – Claudine Tychon
- Raw (Grave) – Elise Ancion

Best Original Score

Insyriated – Jean-Luc Fafchamps
- Racer and the Jailbird (Le Fidèle) – Raf Keunen
- This Is Our Land (Chez nous) – Frédéric Vercheval

Best Sound

Insyriated – Paul Heymans and Alek Gosse and Chadi Roukoz
- A Wedding (Noces) – Olivier Ronval and Michel Schillings
- Sonar – Félix Blume, Benoît Biral and Frédéric Meert

Best Editing

Lost in Paris (Paris pieds nus) – Sandrine Deegen
- Home – Nico Leunen
- Racer and the Jailbird (Le Fidèle) – Alain Dessauvage
- This Is Our Land (Chez nous) – Ludo Troch
- A Wedding (Noces) – Jérôme Guiot

Best Fiction Short Film

With Thelma (Avec Thelma)
- Kapitalistis
- Little Hands (Les Petites Mains)
- The Summer Movie (Le Film de l'été)

Best Animated Short Film

Le Lion et le Singe
- 69 sec
- The Unicorn (La Licorne)
- The Wind in the Reeds (Le Vent dans les roseaux)

Best Documentary Film

Burning Out
- The Belgian Road to Cannes (La Belge Histoire du festival de Cannes)
- Children of Chance (Enfants du hasard)
- Still Alive (Rester vivants)

Honorary Magritte Award

Sandrine Bonnaire

Films with multiple nominations and awards

References

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