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8th Magritte Awards
The 8th Magritte Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie André Delvaux, honored the best films of 2017 in Belgium and took place on 3 February 2018 at the Square in the historic site of Mont des Arts, Brussels, beginning at 8:45 p.m. CET. During the ceremony, the Académie André Delvaux presented Magritte Awards in 22 categories. The ceremony was televised in Belgium by La Deux, after RTBF took over broadcast rights from BeTV. Actress Natacha Régnier presided the ceremony, while Fabrizio Rongione hosted the show for the third time. The nominees for the 8th Magritte Awards were announced on 11 January 2018. Films with the most nominations were '' A Wedding'' with eight, followed by '' This Is Our Land'' with seven and '' Insyriated'' with six. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 3, 2018. ''Insyriated'' won six awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Philippe Van Leeuw. Other multiple winners were ''A Wedding'' and '' Raw'' wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Square – Brussels Meeting Centre
Square – Brussels Convention Centre (previously Square – Brussels Meeting Centre) is the name of a convention centre in Brussels, Belgium. It is run by the GL Events group and situated in cultural and historic district of Brussels near the national and international institutions, overlooking the city from the hillside of the Mont des Arts. History Square – Brussels Convention Centre is housed in the former Palace of Congress, which was designed by Jules Ghobert and Maurice Hoyoux and built in 1958 for the World's fair. Managed at the time by the National Congresses Service, the Palace of Congress consisted of several subterranean spaces, including 1,200-seat and 300-seat auditoria, plus rudimentary exhibition spaces. Although upgraded both technologically and aesthetically in 1978, the infrastructure of the Palace aged through the 1980s and 1990s. Several financial difficulties, together with the discovery of asbestos, eventually closed the Palace’s doors in 2003. In la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magritte Award For Best Director
The Magritte Award for Best Director (French: Magritte du meilleur réalisateur) is an award presented annually by the Académie André Delvaux. It is given in honor of a film director who has exhibited outstanding directing 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 Jaco Van Dormael receiving the award for his work in '' Mr. Nobody''. As of the 2022 ceremony, Laura Wandel is the most recent winner in this category for her work in ''Playground A playground, playpark, or play area is a place designed to provide an environment for children that facilitates play, typically outdoors. While a playground is usually designed for children, some are designed for other age groups, or people ...''. Winners and nominees In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by the other nominees. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Amant Double
''L'Amant double'' (released in the United States as ''Double Lover'') is a 2017 erotic thriller drama film written and directed by François Ozon, based on the 1987 novel ''Lives of the Twins'' (also known as ''Kindred Passions'') by Joyce Carol Oates. It stars Marine Vacth as a young woman named Chloé who discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity. Plot Chloé, a dowdy museum attendant suffering depression and abdominal pain, consults a gynaecologist. She is told that no physical cause can be found and what she needs is a psychiatrist. She consults Paul, under whose sympathetic care she smartens up her appearance and reacts more warmly to people. In fact they have fallen in love, and they move into an apartment together. Unpacking things, she finds that Paul has changed his name and hidden his family details from her. In the street she sees Paul's double who, she discovers, is a psychiatrist named Louis. Booking a session with him, he is aggressive and she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jérémie Renier
(; born 6 January 1981) is a Belgian actor. His film debut was in the critically praised (1996), directed by the Dardenne brothers. He became better known to worldwide audiences in ''Brotherhood of the Wolf'' (2001) and (2005). The latter was also directed by the brothers. He portrayed French singer in the 2012 film ''My Way'', for which he was nominated for a César Award for Best Actor, and Yves Saint Laurent co-founder Pierre Bergé Pierre Vital Georges Bergé (; 14 November 1930 – 8 September 2017) was a French industrialist and patron. He co-founded the fashion label Yves Saint Laurent, and was a longtime business partner (and onetime life partner) of its namesake des ... in the 2014 biopic '' Saint Laurent'', which earned him a César Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Filmography Awards and nominations References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Renier, Jeremie 1981 births Living people Magritte Award winners Belgian male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just To Be Sure
''Just to Be Sure'' (french: Ôtez-moi d'un Doute) is a 2017 French-Belgian comedy film directed by Carine Tardieu. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. It received two nominations at the 8th Magritte Awards. Cast * François Damiens as Erwan Gourmelon * Cécile De France as Doctor Anna Levkine * Guy Marchand as Bastien Gourmelon * André Wilms as Joseph Levkine * Alice de Lencquesaing as Juliette Gourmelon * Lyes Salem as Madjid * Brigitte Roüan as Cécile * Nadège Beausson-Diagne as The mother of the young girl Reception On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wan ..., the film holds an approval rating of 85%, based on 13 reviews with an average rating of 6.6/10. References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Damiens
François Georges Henri Marie Ghislain Joseph Damiens (; born 17 January 1973) is a Belgian actor. Career He has appeared in more than fifty films since 2000. He started out doing hidden camera videos in the 90s and became widely popular in Belgium. He gained great popularity in Belgium and had to stop filming in 2004 because he could no longer play without being recognized; he then came to France to continue his activity. There, as in Switzerland, he acquired a certain celebrity thanks to the dissemination of his hoaxes on Canal+ Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flow unde ... and internet. He made his directorial feature debut in 2018 with the drama film '' Mon Ket''. Personal life He has two sons: Jack & Jimmy. He is trilingual, in addition to French, he speaks Dutch an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Of The Belgians (film)
''King of the Belgians'' is a 2016 mockumentary comedy film produced, written and directed by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth. It premiered in the Horizons section at the 73rd edition of the Venice Film Festival. It received five nominations at the 8th Magritte Awards, including Best Flemish Film. Its sequel, '' The Barefoot Emperor'', premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Plot While Nicolas III, King of the Belgians, is doing an official visit to Istanbul, breaking news arrives: Wallonia just declared its independence and so Belgium doesn't exist any more. In order to face the political crisis, Nicolas III decides to quickly come back home, but due to a geomagnetic storm all the flights are blocked. Therefore, the King and his staff decide to try to reach Belgium overland, but this becomes very difficult. The hard trip becomes not only a desperate (and comical) travel across the Balkans, but also an inner trip where Nicolas III tries to understand wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Van Den Begin
Peter Alfons Christiaan Van Den Begin (born 25 October 1964 in Berchem) is a Belgian actor and director. He has two daughters with actress and singer-songwriter Tine Reymer. His very first theater performances include acting in such plays as ''De Straat'' (Ronald Van Rillaer), ''Droomspel'' (Mannen van den Dam) and ''De getemde feeks'' (theaterMalpertuis). Later on he has continued his theater acting career by performing in various plays. Under Blauwe Maandag Compagnie he has performed in such pieces like ''All for love'', ''Joko'' and ''Vrijen met dieren''. Awards In the 44th Gent Film Festival in 2017 Van de Begin received two Flemish Actors' Guild awards as the best actor both in theater for his role in ''Risjaar Drei'' (Olympique Dramatique & Toneelhuis) and in film for his performance in the movie ''King of the Belgians''. Filmography Together with Stany Crets he has been a writer for: * De Raf en Ronny Show (1998) * Raf en Ronny II (1999) * Debby en Nancy Laid Kni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephan Streker
Stephan Streker is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. Biography Stephan Streker was born in Brussels, and first became a journalist with the aim of meeting the people he admired most in the world – filmmakers. In this capacity, he published lengthy interviews for the Belgian press. He also worked as a film critic for both radio and print media and as a photographer (artistic, press and portraiture), producing numerous album covers. In parallel to these occupations, Stephan was a sports journalist, specializing in soccer and boxing. '' A Wedding'' (''Noces'') is his third feature-length film following ' (2004), shot “guerilla” style in Los Angeles with the help of a few friends, and ' (2013) starring Vincent Rottiers, Olivier Gourmet and Reda Kateb. ''A Wedding'' has been selected in over 40 Film Festivals worldwide, earning more than 15 awards. The movie has been nominated at the César 2018 in the category Best Foreign Film. In addition to his job as a filmmak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nabil Ben Yadir
Nabil Ben Yadir is a Belgian actor, film director, and screenwriter. Career Ben Yadir made his feature-length directorial debut in 2009 with '' The Barons'', which he also co-wrote with Laurent Brandenbourger and Sébastien Fernandez. The film was nominated for six Magritte Awards, including Best Director and Best Screenplay. His second feature, '' The Marchers'', was screened in Official Competition at Cannes. Filming for a political thriller, '' Blind Spot'' (''Dode Hoek''), set against Belgium's Flemish-French divide, is scheduled to commence in the Spring of 2014. Before becoming a filmmaker, Ben Yadir worked on an assembly line for Volkswagen. He spent "months on end doing exactly the same thing". This influenced his choice to select a different genre Genre () is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed-upon conventions developed over time. In popular usage, it normally describes a category of liter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucas Belvaux
Lucas Belvaux (born 14 November 1961) is a Belgian actor and film director. His directing credits include the ''Trilogie'', consisting of three films with interlocking stories and characters, each of which was filmed in a different genre. The three films are '' Cavale'', a thriller; '' Un couple épatant'', a comedy; and '' Après la vie'', a melodrama. The ''Trilogie'' received the André Cavens Award. His film ''La Raison du plus faible'' was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. His film '' One Night (38 témoins)'' was nominated for seven Magritte Awards, winning Best Screenplay. He also appeared as an actor in the film ''Merry Christmas'' (2005). He is the brother of Rémy Belvaux and Bruno Belvaux. Filmography As director/writer As actor * 1981: '' Allons Z'Enfants'' * 1982: '' The Trout'' * 1983: '' The Death of Mario Ricci'' * 1985: '' Chicken with Vinegar'' * 1991: '' Madame Bovary'' * 2004: ''Tomorrow We Move ''Tomorrow We Move'' (french ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost In Paris
''Lost in Paris'' (original title: ''Paris pieds nus'') is a 2016 French-Belgian comedy film written, directed and co-produced by Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon, starring Gordon as a Canadian librarian who meets a homeless man (played by Abel) in Paris. The film also features Emmanuelle Riva and Pierre Richard. The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on 2 September 2016. It received three nominations at the 8th Magritte Awards, including Best Film, and won Best Editing for Sandrine Deegen. Plot When she is a little girl Fiona's (Fiona Gordon) aunt Martha moves from Canada to Paris. Years later, Fiona receives a letter from her aunt Martha which asks her to come to Paris to help her since she is about to be forced into an old age home since she is 88. Fiona arrives in Paris only to find her aunt missing. Posing for a photo near the Eiffel tower she falls into the Seine and loses her backpack and belongings. The backpack is found by Dom (Dominique Abel) wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
