2nd Les Magritte du Cinema Awards Winners

As the ceremony comes to an end winners have been announced and winners are in @BLUE. To read winners in all categories go here.

--2/4/2012

A few minutes ago the Académie André Delvaux announced the nominations that this year honors films in French but also in Dutch, so there has to be less controversy. Les géants leads with 12 nominations followed by Le gamin au vélo and Tête de boeuf – Rundskop, each with 8. Here are the nominations for some categories.

Best Film
Beyond the steppes, Vanja D’Alcantara
La fée (The Fairy)
Le gamin au vélo (The Kid With a Bike)
*Les géants Bouli Lanners

Best Director
Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon for La fée
Jean-Pierre Dardene and Luc Dardene for Le gamin au vélo
*Bouli Lanners for Les géants
Sam Garbarski for Quartier Lointain

Best Flemish Co Production
Hasta La Vista (Come as You Are), Geoffrey Enthoven
Pulsar, Alex Stockman,
Smoorverliefd, Hilde Van Mieghem
*Rundskop (Bullhead), Michael R. Roskam

Best Foreign Film in Co Production
*Les émotifs anonyms, Jean-Pierre Améris
Potiche, François Ozon
Route Irish, Ken Loach
Un homme qui crie, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Best Actress
Isabelle De Hertogh in Hasta La Vista
*Lubna Azabal in Incendies
Cécile de France in Le gamin au vélo
Yolande Moreau in Où va la nuit (The Long Falling), Martin Provost

Best Supporting Actress
Virginie Efira in Kill Me Please
Marie Kremer in Légitime defense (Final Balance), Pierre Lacan
*Gwen Berrou in Les géants
Tania Garbarski in Quartier lointain

Best Actor
Dominique Abel in La fée
Benoît Poelvoorde in Les émotifs anonymes
Jonathan Zaccaï in Quartier Lointain
*Matthias Schoenaerts in Rundskop

Best Supporting Actor
Bouli Lanners in Kill Me Please
Didier Toupy in Les géants
Laurent Capelluto in Où va la nuit
*Jérémie Renier in Potiche

To check nominees in all categories go here. Award ceremony will be on February 4th, will be broadcast by BeTV plus TV5 Monde and hope to watch it like last year. There are not many films that I have seen but the most relevant movies (from Cannes) are the ones I’m dying to watch, with exception of one that have seen: Dardene Brothers magister opus.