# Magritte Award for Best First Feature Film

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.
It was introduced in 2013 as an audience award. However, its first winner Dead Man Talking was announced during the 66th Cannes Film Festival, three months later the 3rd Magritte Awards ceremony. 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

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

### 2020s

| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) |
| 2020/21 (11th) | Playground | Un monde | Laura Wandel |
| 2020/21 (11th) | Jumbo | Jumbo | Zoé Wittock |
| 2020/21 (11th) | Madly in Life | Une vie démente | Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni |
| 2020/21 (11th) | Mother Schmuckers | Fils de plouc | Harpo Guit and Lenny Guit |