Virginie Efira was crowned “Best Actress” for her role in Alice Winocour’s “Revoir Paris” on Saturday at the 12th Magritte du Cinema ceremony. The actress, who was not in Brussels to receive her prize, distinguished herself against Lubna Azabal (Rebel), Lucie Debay (Lucie loses her horse) and Babetida Sadjo (Juwaa).
Bouli Lanners was crowned “Best Actor” for his role in Dominik Moll’s “La nuit du 12” on Saturday at the 12th Magritte du Cinema ceremony. He won against Benoît Poelvoorde (Inexorable), Jérémie Renier (The enemy), Soufiane Chilah (Animals) and Aboubakr Bensaihi (Rebel).
Favorite of the 12th Magritte ceremony with 10 nominations, “Close” by Lukas Dhont won 8 awards on Saturday evening. While the film crew made the trip to Brussels for the occasion, the director from Ghent was absent, retained in Los Angeles as part of the race for the Oscars.
“Close”, a poignant film about friendship and responsibility, won in the categories “Best Flemish film”, “Best actress in a supporting role” (Emilie Dequenne), “Best actor in a supporting role” (Igor Van Dessel), “Best Male Hope” (Eden Dambrine), “Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation”, “Best Picture”, “Best Sets” and “Best Editing”.
“Close”, a predominantly Flemish film, would compete in the category of “Best Flemish film” but not in that of “Best film”. “This is the logic we have here: we defend, first and foremost, films from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. But we obviously show films made on the other side of the linguistic border and is important”, said Patrick Quinet, president of the André Delvaux Academy, when the appointments were announced in February. “The film being a co-production of a country, with a French-speaking Belgian co-producer”, this however made it possible to make all the technicians and actors of the film eligible, he had specified.
The full list
MAGRITTE FOR BEST FILM : Nobody has to know de Bouli Lanners, produced by Jacques-Henri Bronckart (Versus production)
MAGRITTE FOR BEST FIRST FILM: Fuck it by Julie Lecoustre and Emmanuel Marre produced by Benoit Roland (Wrong Men)
MAGRITTE FOR BEST DIRECTION: Nobody has to know : Bouli Lanners
MAGRITTE FOR THE BEST FLEMISH FILM: Close by Lukas Dhont, produced by Dirk Impens (Menuet), Michiel Dhont and co-produced by Jacques-Henri Bronckart (Versus production)
MAGRITTE FOR BEST ORIGINAL SCENARIO OR ADAPTATION: Close : Lukas Dhont and Angelo Tijssens
MAGRITTE FOR BEST FOREIGN FILM IN CO-PRODUCTION: La nuit du 12 by Dominik Moll, co-produced by Jacques-Henri Bronckart and Gwennaëlle Libert (Versus production)
MAGRITTE FOR BEST ACTRESS: See Paris again: Virginie Efira
MAGRITTE FOR BEST ACTOR: The night of the 12: Bouli Lanners
MAGRITTE FOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Close : Emilie Dequenne
MAGRITTE FOR BEST ACTOR IN A SECOND ROLE: Close : Igor Van Dessel
MAGRITTE OF THE BEST FEMALE PROSPECT: The Beehive : Sophie Breyer
MAGRITTE OF THE BEST MALE PROSPECT: Close : Eden Dambrine
MAGRITTE FOR BEST PICTURE: Close : Frank van den Eden
MAGRITTE FOR BEST SOUND : Animals : Francois Aubinet, Mathieu Cox, Pierre Mertens, David Vranken, Philippe Van Leer
MAGRITTE OF THE BEST DECORATIONS: Close : Eve Martin
MAGRITTE OF THE BEST COSTUMES: I don’t give a fuck: Sloe Rulens
MAGRITTE FOR BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC: Rebel : Hannes De Maeyer, Oum, Aboubakr Bensaihi
MAGRITTE FOR BEST EDITING Close : Nicolas Rumpl
MAGRITTE FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY Soy libre by Laure Portier, produced by Anne-Laure Guégan and Géraldine Sprimont (Need Productions)
MAGRITTE FOR BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY Trees by Jean-Benoît Ugeux, produced by Julie Frères (Dérives) and Jacqueline Siret (Apoptosis)
MAGRITTE FOR BEST SHORT FICTION Ma gueule by Grégory Carnoli and Thibaut Wohlfahrt, produced by Laurence Dehaerinck and Benjamin Viré (Big trouble in little Belgium)
MAGRITTE FOR BEST ANIMATED SHORT Câline by Margot Reumont, produced by Delphine Renard, Delphine Cousin and Justine Paulus (Zorobabel)