11/03/2024 - Emmanuelle Nicot’s debut feature film scooped seven prizes, including Best Film, while Baloji’s Augure claimed five, and Arieh Worthalter two awards

Recognition on the part of Emmanuelle Nicot’s peers came winging its way to the young filmmaker on Saturday night thanks to her debut feature film Love According to Dalva [+see also:
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film profile]. Discovered in May 2022 within Cannes’ Critics’ Week where the film bagged three prizes, the movie is now rounding off its career on home soil with a shelfful of enviable awards, namely Best Film, Best First Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Sound, Best Supporting Actress for Sandrine Blancke and Best Female Newcomer for Zelda Samson. It’s a resounding success for an opus broaching the subject of incest with great finesse and intelligence, focusing on the aftermath and how a young woman rebuilds herself.

Victory was also claimed by the film’s producer, Julie Esparbes of Hélicotronc, who made an impressive comeback at the Magritte Awards after earning herself seven trophies (including that for Best Film) in 2022 via Madly In Life [+see also:
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film profile], which was Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni’s debut feature film. She also produced the directorial pair’s second feature film, The (Ex)perience of Love [+see also:
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film profile], which bagged two prizes last night, in the form of Best Male Newcomer for Lazare Gousseau and Best Editing for Raphaël Balboni and Sophie Vercruysse.

Another film distinguished itself at last night’s ceremony: Baloji’s first feature film Omen [+see also:
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film profile] walked away with no fewer than five awards, two of which went to the filmmaker himself, who invested himself in each and every area of his story and subsequently earned himself Best Original Music and Best Costumes, which he shared with stylist Elke Hoste. For his part, director of photography Joachim Philippe nabbed Best Cinematography, and Eve Martin, who triumphed with Close [+see also:
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interview: Lukas Dhont
interview: Lukas Dhont
film profile] last year, won the award for Best Set Design, while Yves-Marina Gnahoua bagged Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

On the subject of acting, the indisputable champion of the evening was Arieh Worthalter, who, having already scooped a César three weeks ago for his staggering performance in Cédric Kahn’s The Goldman Case [+see also:
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film profile], which marks the first double win in the history of the Magrittes. In the women’s arena, meanwhile, the unmissable Lubna Azabal picked up her third Best Actress award for her part in Maryam Touzani’s The Blue Caftan [+see also:
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Additional noteworthy accolades include the award for Best Documentary, won by Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento’s Adieu sauvage [+see also:
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interview: Veerle Baetens
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film profile]. An honorary Magritte was also awarded to Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman’s muse, French actress Aurore Clément.

The winners’ list is as follows:

Best Film
Love According to Dalva [+see also:
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interview: Emmanuelle Nicot, Julie Esp…
film profile] - Emmanuelle Nicot (Belgium/France)

Best First Film
Love According to Dalva - Emmanuelle Nicot

Best Director
Emmanuelle Nicot – Love According to Dalva

Best Actress
Lubna Azabal – The Blue Caftan [+see also:
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Best Actor
Arieh Worthalter – The Goldman Case [+see also:
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interview: Cédric Kahn
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Best Supporting Actress (tie-break)
Sandrine Blancke – Love According to Dalva
Yves-Marina Gnahoua - Omen [+see also:
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interview: Baloji
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Best Supporting Actor
Arieh Worthalter – All To Play For [+see also:
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interview: Delphine Deloget
film profile] (France/Belgium)

Best Female Newcomer
Zelda Samson – Love According to Dalva

Best Male Newcomer
Lazare Gousseau – The (Ex)perience of Love [+see also:
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interview: Ann Sirot & Raphael Balboni
film profile] (Belgium/France)

Best Original or Adapted Screenplay
Emmanuelle Nicot – Love According to Dalva

Best Photography
Joachim Philippe - Omen

Best Editing
Raphaël Balboni and Sophie Vercruysse – The (Ex)perience of Love

Best Sound
Fabrice Osinski, Valérie Le Docte, Aline Gavroy and Olivier Thys – Love According to Dalva

Best Set Design
Eve Martin - Omen

Best Costumes
Elke Hoste & Baloji - Omen

Best Original Music
Baloji - Omen

Best Flemish Film
When It Melts [+see also:
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interview: Veerle Baetens
film profile] - Veerle Baetens (Belgium/Holland)

Best Foreign Film in Co-Production
Vincent Must Die [+see also:
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interview: Stéphan Castang
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Best Documentary
Adieu sauvage [+see also:
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interview: Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento
film profile] - Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento (Belgium/ France)

Best Short Fiction Film
Les Silencieux - Basile Vuillemin (Belgium/France)

Best Animated Short
Pina - Giuseppe Accardo and Jérémy Depuydt (Belgium/France)

Best Short Documentary Film
En attendant les robot - Natan Castay (Belgium)

Honorary Magritte
Aurore Clément

(Translated from French)