Magritte Award for Best Screenplay

The Magritte Award for Best Screenplay (French: Magritte du meilleur scénario original ou adaptation) is an award presented annually by the Académie André Delvaux. It is one of the Magritte Awards, which were established to recognize excellence in Belgian cinematic achievements.^[1]

Magritte Award for Best Screenplay
Presented by	Académie André Delvaux
First award	2011
Currently held by	Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni, Madly in Life (2021)
Website	lesmagritteducinema.com

The 1st Magritte Awards ceremony was held in 2011 with Jaco Van Dormael receiving the award for his work in Mr. Nobody.^[2] As of the 2022 ceremony, Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni are the most recent winners in this category for their work in Madly in Life.

Winners and nominees

In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by the other nominees.

2010s

Year	English title	Original title	Screenwriter(s)
2010 (1st)	Mr. Nobody		Jaco Van Dormael
	The Barons	Les Barons	Nabil Ben Yadir and Laurent Brandenbourger with Sébastien Fernandez
	Illegal	Illégal	Olivier Masset-Depasse
	Private Lessons	Élève libre	Joachim Lafosse and François Pirot
2011 (2nd)	Bullhead	Rundskop	Michael R. Roskam
	The Giants	Les Géants	Bouli Lanners and Elise Ancion
	The Kid with a Bike	Le Gamin au vélo	Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
	Romantics Anonymous	Les Émotifs anonymes	Philippe Blasband
2012 (3rd)	One Night	38 témoins	Lucas Belvaux
	Dead Man Talking		Patrick Ridremont
	Mobile Home		François Pirot
	Our Children	À perdre la raison	Joachim Lafosse
2013 (4th)	Tango libre		Philippe Blasband and Anne Paulicevich
	Kid		Fien Troch
	The Fifth Season	La Cinquième Saison	Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth
	Vijay and I		Philippe Blasband and Sam Garbarski
2014 (5th)	Not My Type	Pas son genre	Lucas Belvaux
	Henri		Yolande Moreau
	The Marchers	La Marche	Nabil Ben Yadir
	Two Days, One Night	Deux jours, une nuit	Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
2015 (6th)	The Brand New Testament	Le Tout Nouveau Testament	Jaco Van Dormael and Thomas Gunzig
	Alleluia		Fabrice Du Welz and Vincent Tavier
	I'm Dead But I Have Friends	Je suis mort mais j'ai des amis	Guillaume Malandrin and Stéphane Malandrin
	Prejudice	Préjudice	Antoine Cuypers and Antoine Wauters
2016 (7th)	Death by Death	Je me tue à le dire	Xavier Seron
	After Love	L'Économie du couple	Joachim Lafosse
	The First, the Last	Les Premiers, les Derniers	Bouli Lanners
	Keeper		Guillaume Senez and David Lambert
2017 (8th)	Insyriated		Philippe Van Leeuw
	King of the Belgians		Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth
	This Is Our Land	Chez nous	Lucas Belvaux
	A Wedding	Noces	Stephan Streker
2018 (9th)	Girl		Lukas Dhont and Angelo Tijssens
	Bitter Flowers		Olivier Meys and Maarten Loix
	Bye Bye Germany	Es war einmal in Deutschland...	Sam Garbarski
	Our Struggles	Nos batailles	Guillaume Senez
2019 (10th)	Mothers' Instinct	Duelles	Olivier Masset-Depasse
	Lola	Lola vers la mer	Laurent Micheli
	Our Mothers	Nuestras madres	César Díaz
	Young Ahmed	Le Jeune Ahmed	Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

2020s

Year	English title	Original title	Screenwriter(s)
2020/21 (11th)	Madly in Life	Une vie démente	Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni
	Playground	Un monde	Laura Wandel
	The Restless	Les Intranquilles	Joachim Lafosse
	Working Girls	Filles de joie	Anne Paulicevich