# Magritte Award for Most Promising Actor

The Magritte Award for Most Promising Actor (French: Magritte du meilleur espoir masculin) is an award presented annually by the Académie André Delvaux. It is given in honor of a young actor who has delivered an outstanding breakthrough performance while working within the film industry. 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 Joffrey Verbruggen receiving the award for his role in The Boat Race. As of the 2022 ceremony, Günter Duret is the most recent winner in this category for his role in Playground.

## Winners and nominees

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

### 2010s

| Year | Actor | English title | Original title |
| 2010 (1st) | Joffrey Verbruggen | The Boat Race | La Régate |
| 2010 (1st) | Jonas Bloquet | Private Lessons | Élève libre |
| 2010 (1st) | Amir Ben Abdelmoumen | Oscar and the Lady in Pink | Oscar et la Dame rose |
| 2010 (1st) | Martin Nissen | Angel at Sea | Un ange à la mer |
| 2011 (2nd) | Thomas Doret | The Kid with a Bike | Le Gamin au vélo |
| 2011 (2nd) | Romain David | Black Ocean | Noir océan |
| 2011 (2nd) | David Murgia | Bullhead | Rundskop |
| 2011 (2nd) | Martin Nissen | The Giants | Les Géants |
| 2012 (3rd) | David Murgia | Headfirst | La Tête la première |
| 2012 (3rd) | Cédric Constantin | Torpedo | Torpedo |
| 2012 (3rd) | Gael Maleux | Mobile Home | Mobile Home |
| 2012 (3rd) | Martin Swabey | Little Glory | Little Glory |
| 2013 (4th) | Achille Ridolfi | In the Name of the Son | Au nom du fils |
| 2013 (4th) | Mehdi Dehbi | The Bag of Flour | Le Sac de farine |
| 2013 (4th) | Steve Driesen | Landes | Landes |
| 2013 (4th) | Bent Simons | Kid | Kid |
| 2014 (5th) | Marc Zinga | Scouting for Zebras | Les Rayures du zèbre |
| 2014 (5th) | Corentin Lobet | Playing Dead | Je fais le mort |
| 2014 (5th) | Benjamin Ramon | Tokyo Anyway | Tokyo Anyway |
| 2014 (5th) | Matteo Simoni | Marina | Marina |
| 2015 (6th) | Benjamin Ramon | Être | Être |
| 2015 (6th) | Arthur Bols | Prejudice | Prejudice |
| 2015 (6th) | Romain Gelin | The Brand New Testament | Le Tout Nouveau Testament |
| 2015 (6th) | David Thielemans | Chubby | Bouboule |
| 2016 (7th) | Yoann Blanc | Man Overboard | Un homme à la mer |
| 2016 (7th) | Lazare Gousseau | Baden Baden | Baden Baden |
| 2016 (7th) | Martin Nissen | Welcome Home | Welcome Home |
| 2016 (7th) | Pierre Olivier | Nous quatre | Nous quatre |
| 2017 (8th) | Soufiane Chilah | Blind Spot | Dode Hoek |
| 2017 (8th) | Mistral Guidotti | Home | Home |
| 2017 (8th) | Baptiste Sornin | Sonar | Sonar |
| 2017 (8th) | Arieh Worthalter | Past Imperfect | Le Passé devant nous |
| 2018 (9th) | Thomas Mustin | The Royal Exchange | L'Échange des princesses |
| 2018 (9th) | Basile Grunberger | Our Struggles | Nos batailles |
| 2018 (9th) | Baptiste Lalieu | The Benefit of the Doubt | Une Part d'ombre |
| 2018 (9th) | Matteo Salamone | Mon Ket | Mon Ket |
| 2019 (10th) | Idir Ben Addi | Young Ahmed | Le Jeune Ahmed |
| 2019 (10th) | Baloji | Binti | Binti |
| 2019 (10th) | François Neycken | Escapada | Escapada |
| 2019 (10th) | Jeremy Senez | Three Days and a Life | Trois jours et une vie |

### 2020s

| Year | Actor | English title | Original title |
| 2020/21 (11th) | Günter Duret | Playground | Un monde |
| 2020/21 (11th) | Roméo Elvis | Mandibles | Mandibules |
| 2020/21 (11th) | Basile Grunberger | SpaceBoy | SpaceBoy |
| 2020/21 (11th) | Yoann Zimmer | Home Front | Des hommes |