10th Magritte Awards

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. 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.
The nominees for the 10th Magritte Awards were announced on 8 January 2020. 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. 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

Best Director

Olivier Masset-Depasse – Mothers' Instinct

* Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne – Young Ahmed
* César Díaz – Our Mothers
* Laurent Micheli – ''Lola''

Best Actor

Bouli Lanners – Real Love

* Kevin Janssens – Patrick
* Benoît Poelvoorde – Sink or Swim
* Marc Zinga – ''The Mercy of the Jungle''

Best Actress

Veerle Baetens – Mothers' Instinct

Best Supporting Actor

Arieh Worthalter – Mothers' Instinct

* Othmane Moumen – Young Ahmed
* Bouli Lanners – Patrick
* Jonathan Zaccaï – ''Sink or Swim''

Best Supporting Actress

Myriem Akheddiou – Young Ahmed

* Claire Bodson – Young Ahmed
* Stéphanie Crayencour – Emma Peeters
* Yolande Moreau – ''Cleo''

Most Promising Actor

Idir Ben Addi – Young Ahmed

* Baloji – Binti
* François Neycken – Escapada
* Jeremy Senez – ''Three Days and a Life''

Most Promising Actress

Mya Bollaers – Lola

* Bebel Tshiani Baloji – Binti
* Victoria Bluck – Young Ahmed
* Raphaëlle Corbisier – ''Escapada''

Best Screenplay

Mothers' Instinct – Olivier Masset-Depasse

* Lola – Laurent Micheli
* Our Mothers – César Díaz
* Young Ahmed – Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

Best First Feature Film

Our Mothers

* Alone at My Wedding
* Escapada
* For a Happy Life
* ''Girls on the Run''

Best Flemish Film

Patrick

* Bastaard
* Binti
* ''Cleo''

Best Foreign Film in Coproduction

Sorry We Missed You

Best Cinematography

Mothers' Instinct – Hichame Alaouié

* Our Mothers – Virginie Surdej
* The Sisters Brothers – Benoît Debie

Best Production Design

Lola – Catherine Cosme

* Patrick – Hubert Pouille and Pepijn Van Looy
* The Room – Françoise Joset

Best Costume Design

Alone at My Wedding – Claudine Tychon

* Emma Peeters – Gaëlle Fierens
* Patrick – Valérie Le Roy

Best Original Score

Mothers' Instinct – Frédéric Vercheval

* Binti – Fabien Leclercq
* Girls on the Run – Dan Klein
* Lola – Raf Keunen

Best Sound

Mothers' Instinct – Olivier Struye, Marc Bastien, Héléna Réveillère, Thomas Gauder

* Atlantics – Benoît De Clerck, Emmanuel de Boissieu, Claude Gillet
* Our Mothers – Emmanuel de Boissieu and Vincent Nouaille

Best Editing

Mothers' Instinct – Damien Keyeux

* Lola – Julie Naas
* Young 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 – Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier

* Big Wolf & Little Wolf – Rémi Durin
* Sweet Night – Marine Jacob
* Under the Rib Cage – Bruno Tondeur

Best Documentary Film

My Name Is 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 – Alexe Poukine

Honorary Magritte Award

'''Monica Bellucci'''

Films with multiple nominations and awards

The following fifteen films received multiple nominations.

10: Mothers' Instinct
9: Young Ahmed
7: Lola
6: Our Mothers
5: Patrick
4: Binti
3: Alone at My Wedding, Escapada
2: Atlantics, Cleo, Emma Peeters, Girls on the Run, Sink or Swim, The Sisters Brothers, Tel Aviv on Fire

The following three films received multiple awards.

9: Mothers' Instinct
2: Lola, ''Young Ahmed''