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
	Long Live the Lady! (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
	Only God Sees Me (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
	Hop	Dominique Standaert
	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)	Julian Schnabel
	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
	A Coffee in Berlin (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	William Oldroyd
	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
2022 [39]	The Worst Person in the World (Verdens verste menneske)	Joachim Trier
	Dear Comrades! (Dorogie tovarishchi!)	Andrei Konchalovsky
	Josep	Aurel
	Nomadland	Chloé Zhao
	The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion
2023 [40]	Vortex	Gaspar Noé
	Close	Lukas Dhont
	Drive My Car (Doraibu Mai Kā)	Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
	EO	Jerzy Skolimowski
	Triangle of Sadness	Ruben Östlund
2024 [41]	The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúi)	Colm Bairéad
	Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d'une chute)	Justine Triet
	Babylon	Damien Chazelle
	The Blue Caftan (Le Bleu du caftan)	Maryam Touzani
	Perfect Days	Wim Wenders
2025 [42]	The Zone of Interest	Jonathan Glazer
	Emilia Pérez	Jacques Audiard
	Love Lies Bleeding	Rose Glass
	Poor Things	Yorgos Lanthimos
	The Teachers' Lounge (Das Lehrerzimmer)	İlker Çatak