# Grand Prix (Belgian Film Critics Association)

The Grand Prix is an annual award presented by the Belgian Film Critics Association (French: Union de la critique de cinéma, UCC).
It was introduced in 1954 by the organizing committee to honor the film of the year "that contributed the most to the enrichment and influence of cinema". In December of each year, the organization meets to vote for films released in the previous calendar year. To determine the nominations, ballots are sent in by the members – select knowledgeable film enthusiasts, academics, filmmakers, and journalists – and subsequently tabulated in order to decide the winner.

## Winners and nominees

In the following lists, the first titles listed are winners. These are also in bold and; those not in bold are nominees.

### 1950s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 1955 | Neapolitan Carousel (Carosello napoletano) | Ettore Giannini |
| 1956 | Children, Mother, and the General (Kinder, Mütter und ein General) | László Benedek |
| 1957 | Picnic | Joshua Logan |
| 1958 | 12 Angry Men | Sidney Lumet |
| 1959 | Paths of Glory | Stanley Kubrick |

### 1960s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 1960 | Hiroshima mon amour | Alain Resnais |
| 1961 | The Left Handed Gun | Arthur Penn |
| 1962 | Viridiana | Luis Buñuel |
| 1963 | The Miracle Worker | Arthur Penn |
| 1964 | Ride the High Country | Sam Peckinpah |
| 1965 | Dr. Strangelove | Stanley Kubrick |
| 1966 | The Knack ...and How to Get It | Richard Lester |
| 1967 | The Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna) | Hiroshi Teshigahara |
| 1968 | Accident | Joseph Losey |
| 1969 | Daisies (Sedmikrásky) | Věra Chytilová |

### 1970s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 1970 | Ådalen 31 | Bo Widerberg |
| 1971 | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | Sydney Pollack |
| 1972 | The Conformist (Il conformista) | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| 1973 | Cabaret | Bob Fosse |
| 1974 | Fat City | John Huston |
| 1975 | Somewhere Beyond Love (Delitto d'amore) | Luigi Comencini |
| 1976 | Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) | Werner Herzog |
| 1977 | A Woman Under the Influence | John Cassavetes |
| 1978 | Dodes'ka-den (Dodesukaden) | Akira Kurosawa |
| 1979 | Harlan County, USA | Barbara Kopple |

### 1980s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 1980 | Newsfront | Phillip Noyce |
| 1981 | The Herd (Sürü) | Zeki Ökten |
| 1982 | The Elephant Man | David Lynch |
| 1983 | Cutter's Way | Ivan Passer |
| 1984 | Zelig | Woody Allen |
| 1985 | The Draughtsman's Contract | Peter Greenaway |
| 1986 | Stranger Than Paradise | Jim Jarmusch |
| 1987 | Alpine Fire (Höhenfeuer) | Fredi M. Murer |
| 1988 | Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin) | Wim Wenders |
| 1989 | Bird | Clint Eastwood |
| 1989 | Babette's Feast (Babettes gæstebud) | Gabriel Axel |
| 1989 | Long Live the Lady! (Lunga vita alla signora!) | Ermanno Olmi |
| 1989 | Hope and Glory | John Boorman |
| 1989 | House of Games | David Mamet |

### 1990s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 1990 | Distant Voices, Still Lives | Terence Davies |
| 1990 | Black Rain (Kuroi ame) | Shohei Imamura |
| 1990 | Dead Ringers | David Cronenberg |
| 1990 | Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee |
| 1990 | Tucker: The Man and His Dream | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 1991 | A Short Film About Love (Krótki film o miłości) | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| 1991 | Freeze Die Come to Life (Zamri, umri, voskresni!) | Vitali Kanevsky |
| 1991 | Roger & Me | Michael Moore |
| 1991 | The Hairdresser's Husband (Le Mari de la Coiffeuse) | Patrice Leconte |
| 1991 | Wild at Heart | David Lynch |
| 1992 | An Angel at My Table | Jane Campion |
| 1992 | Barton Fink | Joel and Ethan Coen |
| 1992 | Delicatessen | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| 1992 | Miller's Crossing | Joel and Ethan Coen |
| 1992 | The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme |
| 1993 | Raise the Red Lantern (Da hong deng long gao gao gua) | Zhang Yimou |
| 1993 | Jacquot de Nantes | Agnès Varda |
| 1993 | Riff-Raff | Ken Loach |
| 1993 | The Stolen Children (Il ladro di bambini) | Gianni Amelio |
| 1993 | Trust | Hal Hartley |
| 1994 | Raining Stones | Ken Loach |
| 1994 | City of Hope | John Sayles |
| 1994 | Naked | Mike Leigh |
| 1994 | One False Move | Carl Franklin |
| 1994 | Reservoir Dogs | Quentin Tarantino |
| 1995 | Exotica | Atom Egoyan |
| 1995 | Dear Diary (Caro diario) | Nanni Moretti |
| 1995 | Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino |
| 1995 | Ruby in Paradise | Victor Nuñez |
| 1995 | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | Lasse Hallström |
| 1996 | Little Odessa | James Gray |
| 1996 | Before the Rain (Pred doždot) | Milcho Manchevski |
| 1996 | Ed Wood | Tim Burton |
| 1996 | Heavenly Creatures | Peter Jackson |
| 1996 | Once Were Warriors | Lee Tamahori |
| 1997 | Drifting Clouds (Kauas pilvet karkaavat) | Aki Kaurismäki |
| 1997 | Bound | The Wachowskis |
| 1997 | Crash | David Cronenberg |
| 1997 | Fargo | Joel and Ethan Coen |
| 1997 | La Promesse | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne |
| 1998 | Lone Star | John Sayles |
| 1998 | The Life of Jesus (La vie de Jésus) | Bruno Dumont |
| 1998 | Lost Highway | David Lynch |
| 1998 | The Full Monty | Peter Cattaneo |
| 1998 | When We Were Kings | Leon Gast |
| 1999 | Hana-bi | Takeshi Kitano |
| 1999 | Jackie Brown | Quentin Tarantino |
| 1999 | Only God Sees Me (Dieu seul me voit) | Bruno Podalydès |
| 1999 | The Big Lebowski | Joel and Ethan Coen |
| 1999 | The General | John Boorman |

### 2000s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 2000 | The Celebration (Festen) | Thomas Vinterberg |
| 2000 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Jim Jarmusch |
| 2000 | Happiness | Todd Solondz |
| 2000 | Run Lola Run (Lola rennt) | Tom Tykwer |
| 2000 | The Wind Will Carry Us (Bad ma ra khahad bord) | Abbas Kiarostami |
| 2001 | In the Mood for Love (Fa yeung nin wa) | Wong Kar-wai |
| 2001 | American Beauty | Sam Mendes |
| 2001 | Our Lady of the Assassins (La virgen de los sicarios) | Barbet Schroeder |
| 2001 | Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime) | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 2001 | Suzhou River (Sūzhōu Hé) | Lou Ye |
| 2002 | Amores perros | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| 2002 | Memento | Christopher Nolan |
| 2002 | The Gleaners and I (Les glaneurs et la glaneuse) | Agnès Varda |
| 2002 | The Pledge | Sean Penn |
| 2002 | Yi Yi (Yi Yi) | Edward Yang |
| 2003 | Strokes of Fire (Chi-hwa-seon) | Im Kwon-taek |
| 2003 | Bowling for Columbine | Michael Moore |
| 2003 | Ghost World | Terry Zwigoff |
| 2003 | Hop | Dominique Standaert |
| 2003 | Lantana | Ray Lawrence |
| 2004 | The Best of Youth (La meglio gioventù) | Marco Tullio Giordana |
| 2004 | Adaptation | Spike Jonze |
| 2004 | Punch-Drunk Love | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2004 | Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 2004 | The Quiet American | Phillip Noyce |
| 2005 | Oldboy (Oldeuboi) | Park Chan-wook |
| 2005 | American Splendor | Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini |
| 2005 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Michel Gondry |
| 2005 | Infernal Affairs (Mou gaan dou) | Andrew Lau and Alan Mak |
| 2005 | Lost in Translation | Sofia Coppola |
| 2006 | 3-Iron (Bin-jip) | Kim Ki-duk |
| 2006 | A History of Violence | David Cronenberg |
| 2006 | Sideways | Alexander Payne |
| 2006 | The Sea Inside (Mar adentro) | Alejandro Amenábar |
| 2006 | The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | Tommy Lee Jones |
| 2007 | Syriana | Stephen Gaghan |
| 2007 | Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) | Guillermo del Toro |
| 2007 | The Page Turner (Tourneuse de pages) | Denis Dercourt |
| 2007 | The Squid and the Whale | Noah Baumbach |
| 2007 | The Wayward Cloud (Tiānbiān yī duǒ yún) | Tsai Ming-Liang |
| 2008 | The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite) | Fatih Akın |
| 2008 | 12:08 East of Bucharest (A fost sau n-a fost?) | Corneliu Porumboiu |
| 2008 | Curse of the Golden Flower (Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia) | Zhang Yimou |
| 2008 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) | Julian Schnabel |
| 2008 | The Host (Goemul) | Bong Joon-ho |
| 2009 | Hunger | Steve McQueen |
| 2009 | Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | Sidney Lumet |
| 2009 | Gomorrah (Gomorra) | Matteo Garrone |
| 2009 | There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2009 | Two Lovers | James Gray |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 2010 | Antichrist | Lars von Trier |
| 2010 | A Prophet (Un prophète) | Jacques Audiard |
| 2010 | Fish Tank | Andrea Arnold |
| 2010 | Il Divo | Paolo Sorrentino |
| 2010 | Still Walking (Aruitemo aruitemo) | Hirokazu Kore-eda |
| 2011 | A Single Man | Tom Ford |
| 2011 | Another Year | Mike Leigh |
| 2011 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Wes Anderson |
| 2011 | Mother (Madeo) | Bong Joon-ho |
| 2011 | Poetry (Shi) | Lee Chang-dong |
| 2012 | The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius |
| 2012 | A Separation (Jodái-e Náder az Simin) | Asghar Farhadi |
| 2012 | Drive | Nicolas Winding Refn |
| 2012 | Essential Killing | Jerzy Skolimowski |
| 2012 | Winter's Bone | Debra Granik |
| 2013 | Beasts of the Southern Wild | Benh Zeitlin |
| 2013 | Ernest & Celestine (Ernest et Célestine) | Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier |
| 2013 | Killer Joe | William Friedkin |
| 2013 | Take Shelter | Jeff Nichols |
| 2013 | Shame | Steve McQueen |
| 2014 | Mud | Jeff Nichols |
| 2014 | Blue Is the Warmest Colour (La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2) | Abdellatif Kechiche |
| 2014 | Spring Breakers | Harmony Korine |
| 2014 | The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza) | Paolo Sorrentino |
| 2014 | A Coffee in Berlin (Oh Boy!) | Jan Ole Gerster |
| 2015 | Timbuktu | Abderrahmane Sissako |
| 2015 | Boyhood | Richard Linklater |
| 2015 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson |
| 2015 | Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Gett, le procès de Viviane Amsalem) | Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz |
| 2015 | Stations of the Cross (Kreuzweg) | Dietrich Brüggemann |
| 2016 | Son of Saul (Saul Fia) | László Nemes |
| 2016 | The Lobster | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| 2016 | Mad Max: Fury Road | George Miller |
| 2016 | Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven |
| 2016 | Whiplash | Damien Chazelle |
| 2017 | Carol | Todd Haynes |
| 2017 | Frantz | François Ozon |
| 2017 | Hell or High Water | David Mackenzie |
| 2017 | Paterson | Jim Jarmusch |
| 2017 | Truman | Cesc Gay |
| 2018 | Loveless (Nelyubov) | Andrey Zvyagintsev |
| 2018 | A Fantastic Woman (Una mujer fantástica) | Sebastián Lelio |
| 2018 | Get Out | Jordan Peele |
| 2018 | Lady Macbeth | William Oldroyd |
| 2018 | Manchester by the Sea | Kenneth Lonergan |
| 2019 | Cold War (Zimna wojna) | Paweł Pawlikowski |
| 2019 | The Florida Project | Sean Baker |
| 2019 | Roma | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 2019 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Martin McDonagh |
| 2019 | Woman at War (Kona fer í stríð) | Benedikt Erlingsson |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 2020 | Never Look Away (Werk ohne Autor) | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
| 2020 | Joker | Todd Phillips |
| 2020 | Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach |
| 2020 | Les Misérables | Ladj Ly |
| 2020 | Parasite (기생충) | Bong Joon-ho |
| 2021 | 1917 | Sam Mendes |
| 2021 | A Hidden Life | Terrence Malick |
| 2021 | Jojo Rabbit | Taika Waititi |
| 2021 | La Llorona | Jayro Bustamante |
| 2021 | Little Women | Greta Gerwig |
| 2022 | The Worst Person in the World (Verdens verste menneske) | Joachim Trier |
| 2022 | Dear Comrades! (Dorogie tovarishchi!) | Andrei Konchalovsky |
| 2022 | Josep | Aurel |
| 2022 | Nomadland | Chloé Zhao |
| 2022 | The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion |
| 2023 | Vortex | Gaspar Noé |
| 2023 | Close | Lukas Dhont |
| 2023 | Drive My Car (Doraibu Mai Kā) | Ryūsuke Hamaguchi |
| 2023 | EO | Jerzy Skolimowski |
| 2023 | Triangle of Sadness | Ruben Östlund |
| 2024 | The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúi) | Colm Bairéad |
| 2024 | Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d'une chute) | Justine Triet |
| 2024 | Babylon | Damien Chazelle |
| 2024 | The Blue Caftan (Le Bleu du caftan) | Maryam Touzani |
| 2024 | Perfect Days | Wim Wenders |
| 2025 | The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer |
| 2025 | Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard |
| 2025 | Love Lies Bleeding | Rose Glass |
| 2025 | Poor Things | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| 2025 | The Teachers' Lounge (Das Lehrerzimmer) | İlker Çatak |