10th Magritte Awards
Official poster
Date	1 February 2020 (2020-02-01)
Site	Square Mont des Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Hosted by	Kody
Highlights
Best Film	Mothers' Instinct
Most awards	Mothers' Instinct (9)
Most nominations	Mothers' Instinct (10)
Television coverage
Network	RTBF
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The 10th Magritte Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie André Delvaux, honored the best films of 2019 in Belgium. It took place on 1 February 2020, at the Square, in the historic site of Mont des Arts, Brussels. During the ceremony, the Académie André Delvaux presented Magritte Awards in 22 categories.^[1] The ceremony was televised in Belgium by La Deux. Actor Pascal Duquenne presided the ceremony, while comedian Kody hosted the show for the first time.^[2]

The nominees for the 10th Magritte Awards were announced on 8 January 2020.^[3] Films with the most nominations were Mothers' Instinct with ten, followed by Young Ahmed with nine and Lola with seven. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on 1 February 2020.^[4] Mothers' Instinct won a record-breaking nine awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Olivier Masset-Depasse. Other multiple winners were Lola and Young Ahmed with two awards each.

Winners and nominees

Best Film

• Mothers' Instinct (Duelles)
  • Alone at My Wedding (Seule à mon mariage)
  • Lola (Lola vers la mer)
  • Our Mothers (Nuestras madres)
  • Young Ahmed (Le Jeune Ahmed)

Best Director

• Olivier Masset-Depasse – Mothers' Instinct (Duelles)
  • Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne – Young Ahmed (Le Jeune Ahmed)
  • César Díaz – Our Mothers (Nuestras madres)
  • Laurent Micheli – Lola (Lola vers la mer)

Best Actor

• Bouli Lanners – Real Love (C'est ça l'amour)
  • Kevin Janssens – Patrick (De Patrick)
  • Benoît Poelvoorde – Sink or Swim (Le Grand Bain)
  • Marc Zinga – The Mercy of the Jungle (La Miséricorde de la Jungle)

Best Actress

• Veerle Baetens – Mothers' Instinct (Duelles)
  • Lubna Azabal – Tel Aviv on Fire
  • Anne Coesens – Mothers' Instinct (Duelles)
  • Cécile de France – A Bigger World (Un monde plus grand)

Best Supporting Actor

• Arieh Worthalter – Mothers' Instinct (Duelles)
  • Othmane Moumen – Young Ahmed (Le Jeune Ahmed)
  • Bouli Lanners – Patrick (De Patrick)
  • Jonathan Zaccaï – Sink or Swim (Le Grand Bain)

Best Supporting Actress

• Myriem Akheddiou – Young Ahmed (Le Jeune Ahmed)
  • Claire Bodson – Young Ahmed (Le Jeune Ahmed)
  • Stéphanie Crayencour – Emma Peeters
  • Yolande Moreau – Cleo

Most Promising Actor

• Idir Ben Addi – Young Ahmed (Le Jeune Ahmed)
  • Baloji – Binti
  • François Neycken – Escapada
  • Jeremy Senez – Three Days and a Life (Trois jours et une vie)

Most Promising Actress

• Mya Bollaers – Lola (Lola vers la mer)
  • Bebel Tshiani Baloji – Binti
  • Victoria Bluck – Young Ahmed (Le Jeune Ahmed)
  • Raphaëlle Corbisier – Escapada

Best Screenplay

• Mothers' Instinct (Duelles) – Olivier Masset-Depasse
  • Lola (Lola vers la mer) – Laurent Micheli
  • Our Mothers (Nuestras madres) – César Díaz
  • Young Ahmed (Le Jeune Ahmed) – Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

Best First Feature Film

• Our Mothers (Nuestras madres)
  • Alone at My Wedding (Seule à mon mariage)
  • Escapada
  • For a Happy Life (Pour vivre heureux)
  • Girls on the Run (Cavale)

Best Flemish Film

• Patrick (De Patrick)
  • Bastaard
  • Binti
  • Cleo

Best Foreign Film in Coproduction

• Sorry We Missed You
  • Atlantics (Atlantique)
  • The Sisters Brothers
  • Tel Aviv on Fire

Best Cinematography

• Mothers' Instinct (Duelles) – Hichame Alaouié
  • Our Mothers (Nuestras madres) – Virginie Surdej
  • The Sisters Brothers – Benoît Debie

Best Production Design

• Lola (Lola vers la mer) – Catherine Cosme
  • Patrick (De Patrick) – Hubert Pouille and Pepijn Van Looy
  • The Room – Françoise Joset

Best Costume Design

• Alone at My Wedding (Seule à mon mariage) – Claudine Tychon
  • Emma Peeters – Gaëlle Fierens
  • Patrick (De Patrick) – Valérie Le Roy

Best Original Score

• Mothers' Instinct (Duelles) – Frédéric Vercheval
  • Binti – Fabien Leclercq
  • Girls on the Run (Cavale) – Dan Klein
  • Lola (Lola vers la mer) – Raf Keunen

Best Sound

• Mothers' Instinct (Duelles) – Olivier Struye, Marc Bastien, Héléna Réveillère, Thomas Gauder
  • Atlantics (Atlantique) – Benoît De Clerck, Emmanuel de Boissieu, Claude Gillet
  • Our Mothers (Nuestras madres) – Emmanuel de Boissieu and Vincent Nouaille

Best Editing

• Mothers' Instinct (Duelles) – Damien Keyeux
  • Lola (Lola vers la mer) – Julie Naas
  • Young Ahmed (Le Jeune Ahmed) – Marie-Hélène Dozo

Best Fiction Short Film

• Matriochkas – Bérangère McNeese
  • Bruxelles–Beyrouth – Thibaut Wohlfahrt and Samir Youssef
  • Detours – Christopher Yates
  • Lucia en el limbo – Valentina Maurel

Best Animated Short Film

• The County Fair (La Foire agricole) – Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier
  • Big Wolf & Little Wolf (Grand Loup & Petit Loup) – Rémi Durin
  • Sweet Night (Nuit chérie) – Marine Jacob
  • Under the Rib Cage (Sous le cartilage des côtes) – Bruno Tondeur

Best Documentary Film

• My Name Is Clitoris (Mon nom est Clitoris) – Daphné Leblond and Lisa Billuart Monet
  • Bains Publics – Kita Bauchet
  • By the Name of Tania – Mary Jiménez and Bénédicte Liénard
  • That Which Does Not Kill (Sans frapper) – Alexe Poukine

Honorary Magritte Award

• Monica Bellucci

Films with multiple nominations and awards