Grand Prix (Belgian Film Critics Association)
The Grand Prix is an annual award presented by the Belgian Film Critics Association (French: Union de la critique de cinéma, UCC).
It was introduced in 1954 by the organizing committee to honor the film of the year "that contributed the most to the enrichment and influence of cinema".[1] In December of each year, the organization meets to vote for films released in the previous calendar year. To determine the nominations, ballots are sent in by the members – select knowledgeable film enthusiasts, academics, filmmakers, and journalists – and subsequently tabulated in order to decide the winner.
Winners and nominees[]
In the following lists, the first titles listed are winners. These are also in bold and; those not in bold are nominees.
1950s[]
| Year | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Neapolitan Carousel (Carosello napoletano) | Ettore Giannini |
| 1956 | Children, Mother, and the General (Kinder, Mütter und ein General) | László Benedek |
| 1957 | Picnic | Joshua Logan |
| 1958 | 12 Angry Men | Sidney Lumet |
| 1959 | Paths of Glory | Stanley Kubrick |
1960s[]
| Year | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Hiroshima mon amour | Alain Resnais |
| 1961 | The Left Handed Gun | Arthur Penn |
| 1962 | Viridiana | Luis Buñuel |
| 1963 | The Miracle Worker | Arthur Penn |
| 1964 | Ride the High Country | Sam Peckinpah |
| 1965 | Dr. Strangelove | Stanley Kubrick |
| 1966 | The Knack ...and How to Get It | Richard Lester |
| 1967 | The Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna) | Hiroshi Teshigahara |
| 1968 | Accident | Joseph Losey |
| 1969 | Daisies (Sedmikrásky) | Věra Chytilová |
1970s[]
| Year | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Ådalen 31 | Bo Widerberg |
| 1971 | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | Sydney Pollack |
| 1972 | The Conformist (Il conformista) | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| 1973 | Cabaret | Bob Fosse |
| 1974 | Fat City | John Huston |
| 1975 | Somewhere Beyond Love (Delitto d'amore) | Luigi Comencini |
| 1976 | Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) | Werner Herzog |
| 1977 | A Woman Under the Influence | John Cassavetes |
| 1978 | Dodes'ka-den (Dodesukaden) | Akira Kurosawa |
| 1979 | Harlan County, USA | Barbara Kopple |
1980s[]
| Year | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Newsfront | Phillip Noyce |
| 1981 | The Herd (Sürü) | Zeki Ökten |
| 1982 | The Elephant Man | David Lynch |
| 1983 | Cutter's Way | Ivan Passer |
| 1984 | Zelig | Woody Allen |
| 1985 | The Draughtsman's Contract | Peter Greenaway |
| 1986 | Stranger Than Paradise | Jim Jarmusch |
| 1987 | Alpine Fire (Höhenfeuer) | Fredi M. Murer |
| 1988 | Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin) | Wim Wenders |
| 1989 [2] |
Bird | Clint Eastwood |
| Babette's Feast (Babettes gæstebud) | Gabriel Axel | |
| Lunga vita alla signora! | Ermanno Olmi | |
| Hope and Glory | John Boorman | |
| House of Games | David Mamet |
1990s[]
| Year | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 [3] |
Distant Voices, Still Lives | Terence Davies |
| Black Rain (Kuroi ame) | Shohei Imamura | |
| Dead Ringers | David Cronenberg | |
| Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | |
| Tucker: The Man and His Dream | Francis Ford Coppola | |
| 1991 [4] |
A Short Film About Love (Krótki film o miłości) | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| Freeze Die Come to Life (Zamri, umri, voskresni!) | Vitali Kanevsky | |
| Roger & Me | Michael Moore | |
| The Hairdresser's Husband (Le Mari de la Coiffeuse) | Patrice Leconte | |
| Wild at Heart | David Lynch | |
| 1992 [5] |
An Angel at My Table | Jane Campion |
| Barton Fink | Joel and Ethan Coen | |
| Delicatessen | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet | |
| Miller's Crossing | Joel and Ethan Coen | |
| The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme | |
| 1993 [6] |
Raise the Red Lantern (Da hong deng long gao gao gua) | Zhang Yimou |
| Jacquot de Nantes | Agnès Varda | |
| Riff-Raff | Ken Loach | |
| The Stolen Children (Il ladro di bambini) | Gianni Amelio | |
| Trust | Hal Hartley | |
| 1994 [7] |
Raining Stones | Ken Loach |
| City of Hope | John Sayles | |
| Naked | Mike Leigh | |
| One False Move | Carl Franklin | |
| Reservoir Dogs | Quentin Tarantino | |
| 1995 [8][9] |
Exotica | Atom Egoyan |
| Dear Diary (Caro diario) | Nanni Moretti | |
| Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino | |
| Ruby in Paradise | Victor Nuñez | |
| What's Eating Gilbert Grape | Lasse Hallström | |
| 1996 [10][11] |
Little Odessa | James Gray |
| Before the Rain (Pred doždot) | Milcho Manchevski | |
| Ed Wood | Tim Burton | |
| Heavenly Creatures | Peter Jackson | |
| Once Were Warriors | Lee Tamahori | |
| 1997 [12] |
Drifting Clouds (Kauas pilvet karkaavat) | Aki Kaurismäki |
| Bound | The Wachowskis | |
| Crash | David Cronenberg | |
| Fargo | Joel and Ethan Coen | |
| La Promesse | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | |
| 1998 [13] |
Lone Star | John Sayles |
| The Life of Jesus (La vie de Jésus) | Bruno Dumont | |
| Lost Highway | David Lynch | |
| The Full Monty | Peter Cattaneo | |
| When We Were Kings | Leon Gast | |
| 1999 [14][15] |
Hana-bi | Takeshi Kitano |
| Jackie Brown | Quentin Tarantino | |
| (Dieu seul me voit) | Bruno Podalydès | |
| The Big Lebowski | Joel and Ethan Coen | |
| The General | John Boorman |
2000s[]
| Year | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 [16] |
The Celebration (Festen) | Thomas Vinterberg |
| Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Jim Jarmusch | |
| Happiness | Todd Solondz | |
| Run Lola Run (Lola rennt) | Tom Tykwer | |
| The Wind Will Carry Us (Bad ma ra khahad bord) | Abbas Kiarostami | |
| 2001 [17] |
In the Mood for Love (Fa yeung nin wa) | Wong Kar-wai |
| American Beauty | Sam Mendes | |
| Our Lady of the Assassins (La virgen de los sicarios) | Barbet Schroeder | |
| Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime) | Hayao Miyazaki | |
| Suzhou River (Sūzhōu Hé) | Lou Ye | |
| 2002 [18] |
Amores perros | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| Memento | Christopher Nolan | |
| The Gleaners and I (Les glaneurs et la glaneuse) | Agnès Varda | |
| The Pledge | Sean Penn | |
| Yi Yi (Yi Yi) | Edward Yang | |
| 2003 [19] |
Strokes of Fire (Chi-hwa-seon) | Im Kwon-taek |
| Bowling for Columbine | Michael Moore | |
| Ghost World | Terry Zwigoff | |
| Lantana | Ray Lawrence | |
| 2004 [20] |
The Best of Youth (La meglio gioventù) | Marco Tullio Giordana |
| Adaptation | Spike Jonze | |
| Punch-Drunk Love | Paul Thomas Anderson | |
| Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) | Hayao Miyazaki | |
| The Quiet American | Phillip Noyce | |
| 2005 [21] |
Oldboy (Oldeuboi) | Park Chan-wook |
| American Splendor | Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini | |
| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Michel Gondry | |
| Infernal Affairs (Mou gaan dou) | Andrew Lau and Alan Mak | |
| Lost in Translation | Sofia Coppola | |
| 2006 [22] |
3-Iron (Bin-jip) | Kim Ki-duk |
| A History of Violence | David Cronenberg | |
| Sideways | Alexander Payne | |
| The Sea Inside (Mar adentro) | Alejandro Amenábar | |
| The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | Tommy Lee Jones | |
| 2007 [23] |
Syriana | Stephen Gaghan |
| Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) | Guillermo del Toro | |
| The Page Turner (Tourneuse de pages) | Denis Dercourt | |
| The Squid and the Whale | Noah Baumbach | |
| The Wayward Cloud (Tiānbiān yī duǒ yún) | Tsai Ming-Liang | |
| 2008 [24] |
The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite) | Fatih Akın |
| 12:08 East of Bucharest (A fost sau n-a fost?) | Corneliu Porumboiu | |
| Curse of the Golden Flower (Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia) | Zhang Yimou | |
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) | Jean-Dominique Bauby | |
| The Host (Goemul) | Bong Joon-ho | |
| 2009 [25][26] |
Hunger | Steve McQueen |
| Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | Sidney Lumet | |
| Gomorrah (Gomorra) | Matteo Garrone | |
| There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson | |
| Two Lovers | James Gray |
2010s[]
| Year | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 [27] |
Antichrist | Lars von Trier |
| A Prophet (Un prophète) | Jacques Audiard | |
| Fish Tank | Andrea Arnold | |
| Il Divo | Paolo Sorrentino | |
| Still Walking (Aruitemo aruitemo) | Hirokazu Kore-eda | |
| 2011 [28] |
A Single Man | Tom Ford |
| Another Year | Mike Leigh | |
| Fantastic Mr. Fox | Wes Anderson | |
| Mother (Madeo) | Bong Joon-ho | |
| Poetry (Shi) | Lee Chang-dong | |
| 2012 [29] |
The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius |
| A Separation (Jodái-e Náder az Simin) | Asghar Farhadi | |
| Drive | Nicolas Winding Refn | |
| Essential Killing | Jerzy Skolimowski | |
| Winter's Bone | Debra Granik | |
| 2013 [30] |
Beasts of the Southern Wild | Benh Zeitlin |
| Ernest & Celestine (Ernest et Célestine) | Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier | |
| Killer Joe | William Friedkin | |
| Take Shelter | Jeff Nichols | |
| Shame | Steve McQueen | |
| 2014 [31] |
Mud | Jeff Nichols |
| Blue Is the Warmest Colour (La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2) | Abdellatif Kechiche | |
| Spring Breakers | Harmony Korine | |
| The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza) | Paolo Sorrentino | |
| Oh Boy! | Jan Ole Gerster | |
| 2015 [32] |
Timbuktu | Abderrahmane Sissako |
| Boyhood | Richard Linklater | |
| The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson | |
| Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Gett, le procès de Viviane Amsalem) | Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz | |
| Stations of the Cross (Kreuzweg) | Dietrich Brüggemann | |
| 2016 [33] |
Son of Saul (Saul Fia) | László Nemes |
| The Lobster | Yorgos Lanthimos | |
| Mad Max: Fury Road | George Miller | |
| Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | |
| Whiplash | Damien Chazelle | |
| 2017 [34] |
Carol | Todd Haynes |
| Frantz | François Ozon | |
| Hell or High Water | David Mackenzie | |
| Paterson | Jim Jarmusch | |
| Truman | Cesc Gay | |
| 2018 [35] |
Loveless (Nelyubov) | Andrey Zvyagintsev |
| A Fantastic Woman (Una mujer fantástica) | Sebastián Lelio | |
| Get Out | Jordan Peele | |
| Lady Macbeth | ||
| Manchester by the Sea | Kenneth Lonergan | |
| 2019 [36] |
Cold War (Zimna wojna) | Paweł Pawlikowski |
| The Florida Project | Sean Baker | |
| Roma | Alfonso Cuarón | |
| Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Martin McDonagh | |
| Woman at War (Kona fer í stríð) | Benedikt Erlingsson |
2020s[]
| Year | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 [37] |
Never Look Away (Werk ohne Autor) | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
| Joker | Todd Phillips | |
| Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach | |
| Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | |
| Parasite (기생충) | Bong Joon-ho | |
| 2021 [38] |
1917 | Sam Mendes |
| A Hidden Life | Terrence Malick | |
| Jojo Rabbit | Taika Waititi | |
| La Llorona | Jayro Bustamante | |
| Little Women | Greta Gerwig |
References[]
- ^ "Prix Cavens et Grand Prix de l'UCC" (in French). Cinergie. Archived from the original on January 21, 2012. Retrieved October 28, 2012.
- ^ Delstanche, Francoise (January 9, 1989). "Happy Bird day to l'U.C.C.: Eastwood s'envole avec le prix". Le Soir (in French). p. 23. Retrieved October 27, 2012.
- ^ Denis, Fernand (January 8, 1990). "L'UCC à Distant Voices, still lives". Le Soir (in French). p. 20. Retrieved October 27, 2012.
- ^ Honorez, Luc (January 7, 1991). "Le Grand Prix de l'Union de la Critique du Cinéma, "Brève Histoire d'amour" l'emporte". Le Soir (in French). p. 8. Retrieved October 27, 2012.
- ^ De Decker, Jacques (January 6, 1992). "Une nouvelle carrière pour "An Angel at my Table"". Le Soir (in French). p. 7. Retrieved October 27, 2012.
- ^ ""Les Lanternes rouges", prix de l'UCC". Le Soir (in French). January 11, 1993. p. 8. Retrieved October 27, 2012.
- ^ De Decker, Jacques (January 10, 1994). "Le Grand Prix de l'UCC, "Raining Stones" vainqueur". Le Soir (in French). p. 8. Retrieved October 27, 2012.
- ^ ""Exotica" à l'UCC". Le Soir (in French). January 9, 1995. p. 9. Retrieved October 27, 2012.
- ^ "Jan Bucquoy, prix Cavens". Le Soir (in French). December 19, 1994. p. 9. Retrieved October 27, 2012.
- ^ Honorez, Luc (January 8, 1996). "Un film qui colle à notre époque, l'UCC couronne "Little Odessa"". Le Soir (in French). p. 8. Retrieved October 27, 2012.
- ^ "Les finalistes du prix UCC". Le Soir (in French). December 21, 1995. p. 11. Retrieved October 27, 2012.
- ^ ""Drifting Clouds", Prix de l'UCC". Le Soir (in French). January 13, 1997. p. 9. Retrieved October 27, 2012.
- ^ "Grand prix de l'UCC à "Lone Star"". Le Soir (in French). January 12, 1998. p. 7. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
- ^ ""Hana Bi": grand prix U.C.C." Le Soir (in French). January 12, 1999. p. 10. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
- ^ "Le prix Cavens à "Rosie"". Le Soir (in French). December 26, 1998. p. 10. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
- ^ ""Festen", Grand Prix de l'UCC". Le Soir (in French). January 10, 2000. p. 7. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
- ^ Denis, Fernand (January 7, 2001). "In the mood extrêmement orientale". La Libre Belgique (in French). Retrieved October 26, 2012.
- ^ ""Amores Perros" remporte le prix de l'UCC". La Libre Belgique (in French). January 6, 2002. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
- ^ Denis, Fernand (January 5, 2003). "Le Coréen Im Kwon-Taek, prix de l'UCC". La Libre Belgique (in French). Retrieved October 26, 2012.
- ^ Pluijgers, Jean-François (January 12, 2004). "L'UCC s'offre une cure de "Gioventu"". La Libre Belgique (in French). Retrieved October 26, 2012.
- ^ Denis, Fernand (January 10, 2005). "La victoire de "Poulpe fiction"". La Libre Belgique (in French). Retrieved October 26, 2012.
- ^ "Kim Ki-duk, Grand Prix de l'UCC". La Libre Belgique (in French). January 9, 2006. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
- ^ ""Syriana" remporte le prix de l'UCC". La Libre Belgique (in French). January 8, 2007. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
- ^ ""De l'autre côté", prix UCC". La Libre Belgique (in French). January 7, 2008. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
- ^ "Le grand prix de l'UCC à "Hunger"". La Libre Belgique (in French). January 12, 2009. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
- ^ ""Eldorado" s'offre le Prix Cavens". La Libre Belgique (in French). December 20, 2008. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
- ^ ""Anti-Christ", prix de l'UCC". La Libre Belgique (in French). January 11, 2010. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
- ^ ""A Single Man" de Tom Ford, grand prix UCC 2011". La Libre Belgique (in French). January 10, 2011. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
- ^ ""The Artist", grand prix 2012 de l'UCC". La Libre Belgique (in French). January 9, 2012. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
- ^ Triballeau, Charly (January 6, 2013). ""Beasts of the Southern Wild" reçoit le Grand Prix de l'Union de la Critique de Cinéma" (in French). RTBF. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
- ^ "Le prix Cavens décerné à Kid de Fien Troch". Le Vif (in French). December 19, 2013. Retrieved December 24, 2013.
- ^ De Clercq, Charles (December 19, 2014). "La présélection de l'UCC et le prix Cavens". Cinécure (in French). Retrieved December 23, 2014.
- ^ ""Le fils de Saul", Grand Prix de l'Union de la Critique de Cinéma" (in French). RTBF. January 10, 2016. Retrieved January 10, 2016.
- ^ ""Carol" désigné film de l'année 2016 par les critiques belges". 7sur7 (in French). De Persgroep. January 7, 2017. Retrieved January 8, 2017.
- ^ ""Loveless" remporte le Grand Prix 2018 de l'Union de la critique de cinéma" (in French). RTBF. January 8, 2018. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
- ^ Heyrendt, Hubert (January 6, 2019). ""Cold War" décroche le grand prix de l'UCC". La Libre Belgique (in French). Retrieved January 9, 2019.
- ^ Belga, Agence (January 4, 2010). "Le film "Werk ohne Autor" sacré par l'Union de la critique de cinéma" (in French). RTLinfo. Retrieved January 22, 2020.
- ^ "Les critiques belges élisent "1917" meilleur film de l'année". Madame fait son Cinéma (in French). December 28, 2020. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
External links[]
- Grand Prix de l'UCC at IMDb
Categories:
- Belgian film awards
- International film awards
- Awards established in 1954
- Lists of films by award