# Magritte Award for Best Film

The Magritte Award for Best Film (French: Magritte du meilleur 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. The 1st Magritte Awards ceremony was held in 2011 with Mr. Nobody receiving the award for Best Film. As of the 2024 ceremony, Love According to Dalva is the most recent winner.

## Winners and nominees

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

### 2010s

| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) |
| 2010 (1st) | Mr. Nobody | Mr. Nobody | Jaco Van Dormael |
| 2010 (1st) | Amer | Amer | Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani |
| 2010 (1st) | The Barons | Les Barons | Nabil Ben Yadir |
| 2010 (1st) | Illegal | Illégal | Olivier Masset-Depasse |
| 2011 (2nd) | The Giants | Les Géants | Bouli Lanners |
| 2011 (2nd) | Beyond the Steppes [fr; pl] | Beyond the Steppes [fr; pl] | Vanja d'Alcantara |
| 2011 (2nd) | The Fairy | La Fée | Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon |
| 2011 (2nd) | The Kid with a Bike | Le Gamin au vélo | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne |
| 2012 (3rd) | Our Children | À perdre la raison | Joachim Lafosse |
| 2012 (3rd) | Dead Man Talking | Dead Man Talking | Patrick Ridremont |
| 2012 (3rd) | Mobile Home | Mobile Home | François Pirot [fr; ru; uk] |
| 2012 (3rd) | One Night | 38 témoins | Lucas Belvaux |
| 2013 (4th) | Ernest & Celestine | Ernest et Célestine | Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner |
| 2013 (4th) | In the Name of the Son | Au nom du fils | Vincent Lannoo |
| 2013 (4th) | Kinshasa Kids | Kinshasa Kids | Marc-Henri Wajnberg |
| 2013 (4th) | Tango libre | Tango libre | Frédéric Fonteyne |
| 2013 (4th) | The World Belongs to Us [fr; nl] | Le Monde nous appartient | Stephan Streker |
| 2014 (5th) | Two Days, One Night | Deux jours, une nuit | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne |
| 2014 (5th) | Henri | Henri | Yolande Moreau |
| 2014 (5th) | The Marchers | La Marche | Nabil Ben Yadir |
| 2014 (5th) | Not My Type | Pas son genre | Lucas Belvaux |
| 2014 (5th) | Scouting for Zebras | Les Rayures du zèbre | Benoît Mariage |
| 2015 (6th) | The Brand New Testament | Le Tout Nouveau Testament | Jaco Van Dormael |
| 2015 (6th) | All Cats Are Grey | Tous les chats sont gris | Savina Dellicour |
| 2015 (6th) | I'm Dead But I Have Friends | Je suis mort mais j'ai des amis | Guillaume Malandrin [fr] and Stéphane Malandrin [fr] |
| 2015 (6th) | Melody | Melody | Bernard Bellefroid |
| 2015 (6th) | Prejudice | Préjudice | Antoine Cuypers [fr] |
| 2016 (7th) | The First, the Last | Les Premiers, les Derniers | Bouli Lanners |
| 2016 (7th) | After Love | L'Économie du couple | Joachim Lafosse |
| 2016 (7th) | Death by Death | Je me tue à le dire | Xavier Seron [fr] |
| 2016 (7th) | Keeper | Keeper | Guillaume Senez |
| 2016 (7th) | Parasol | Parasol | Valéry Rosier [fr] |
| 2017 (8th) | Insyriated | Insyriated | Philippe Van Leeuw |
| 2017 (8th) | Blind Spot | Dode Hoek | Nabil Ben Yadir |
| 2017 (8th) | Lost in Paris | Paris pieds nus | Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon |
| 2017 (8th) | This Is Our Land | Chez nous | Lucas Belvaux |
| 2017 (8th) | A Wedding | Noces | Stephan Streker |
| 2018 (9th) | Our Struggles | Nos batailles | Guillaume Senez |
| 2018 (9th) | Above the Law | Tueurs | François Troukens [fa; fr; nl] and Jean-François Hensgens [fa; fr] |
| 2018 (9th) | Bitter Flowers | Bitter Flowers | Olivier Meys |
| 2018 (9th) | Mon Ket | Mon Ket | François Damiens |
| 2018 (9th) | Let the Corpses Tan | Laissez bronzer les cadavres | Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani |
| 2019 (10th) | Mothers' Instinct | Duelles | Olivier Masset-Depasse |
| 2019 (10th) | Alone at My Wedding | Seule à mon mariage | Marta Bergman |
| 2019 (10th) | Lola | Lola vers la mer | Laurent Micheli |
| 2019 (10th) | Our Mothers | Nuestras madres | César Díaz |
| 2019 (10th) | Young Ahmed | Le Jeune Ahmed | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne |

### 2020s

| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) |
| 2020/21 (11th) | Madly in Life | Une vie démente | Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni |
| 2020/21 (11th) | Adoration | Adoration | Fabrice Du Welz |
| 2020/21 (11th) | Playground | Un monde | Laura Wandel |
| 2020/21 (11th) | The Restless | Les Intranquilles | Joachim Lafosse |
| 2020/21 (11th) | Working Girls | Filles de joie | Frédéric Fonteyne and Anne Paulicevich |
| 2022 (12th) | Nobody Has to Know | Nobody Has to Know | Bouli Lanners |
| 2022 (12th) | Animals | Animals | Nabil Ben Yadir |
| 2022 (12th) | The Hive | La Ruche | Christophe Hermans |
| 2022 (12th) | Tori and Lokita | Tori et Lokita | Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne |
| 2022 (12th) | Zero Fucks Given | Rien à foutre | Emmanuel Marre and Julie Lecoustre |
| 2023 (13th) | Love According to Dalva | Dalva | Emmanuelle Nicot |
| 2023 (13th) | The Lost Boys | Le Paradis | Zeno Graton |
| 2023 (13th) | Omen | Augure | Baloji |
| 2023 (13th) | The Experience of Love | Le Syndrome des amours passées | Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni |
| 2023 (13th) | Time Out | Temps mort | Eve Duchemin |
| 2024 (14th) | Amal | Amal | Jawad Rhalib |
| 2024 (14th) | It's Raining in the House | Il pleut dans la maison | Paloma Sermon-Daï |
| 2024 (14th) | A Missing Part | Une part manquante | Guillaume Senez |
| 2024 (14th) | Night Call | La nuit se traîne | Michiel Blanchart |
| 2024 (14th) | Through the Night | Quitter la nuit | Delphine Girard |