Magritte Award for Most Promising Actor

The Magritte Award for Most Promising Actor (French: Magritte du meilleur espoir masculin) is an award presented annually by the Académie André Delvaux. It is given in honor of a young actor who has delivered an outstanding breakthrough performance while working within the film industry. It is one of the Magritte Awards, which were established to recognize excellence in Belgian cinematic achievements.^[1]

Magritte Award for Most Promising Actor
Presented by	Académie André Delvaux
First award	2011
Currently held by	Günter Duret, Playground (2021)
Website	lesmagritteducinema.com

The 1st Magritte Awards ceremony was held in 2011 with Joffrey Verbruggen receiving the award for his role in The Boat Race.^[2] As of the 2022 ceremony, Günter Duret is the most recent winner in this category for his role in Playground.

Winners and nominees

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

2010s

Year	Actor	English title	Original title
2010 (1st)	Joffrey Verbruggen	The Boat Race	La Régate
	Jonas Bloquet	Private Lessons	Élève libre
	Amir Ben Abdelmoumen	Oscar and the Lady in Pink	Oscar et la Dame rose
	Martin Nissen	Angel at Sea	Un ange à la mer
2011 (2nd)	Thomas Doret	The Kid with a Bike	Le Gamin au vélo
	Romain David	Black Ocean	Noir océan
	David Murgia	Bullhead	Rundskop
	Martin Nissen	The Giants	Les Géants
2012 (3rd)	David Murgia	Headfirst	La Tête la première
	Cédric Constantin	Torpedo
	Gael Maleux	Mobile Home
	Martin Swabey	Little Glory
2013 (4th)	Achille Ridolfi	In the Name of the Son	Au nom du fils
	Mehdi Dehbi	The Bag of Flour	Le Sac de farine
	Steve Driesen	Landes
	Bent Simons	Kid
2014 (5th)	Marc Zinga	Scouting for Zebras	Les Rayures du zèbre
	Corentin Lobet	Playing Dead	Je fais le mort
	Benjamin Ramon	Tokyo Anyway
	Matteo Simoni	Marina
2015 (6th)	Benjamin Ramon	Être
	Arthur Bols	Prejudice
	Romain Gelin	The Brand New Testament	Le Tout Nouveau Testament
	David Thielemans	Chubby	Bouboule
2016 (7th)	Yoann Blanc	Man Overboard	Un homme à la mer
	Lazare Gousseau	Baden Baden
	Martin Nissen	Welcome Home
	Pierre Olivier	Nous quatre
2017 (8th)	Soufiane Chilah	Blind Spot	Dode Hoek
	Mistral Guidotti	Home
	Baptiste Sornin	Sonar
	Arieh Worthalter	Past Imperfect	Le Passé devant nous
2018 (9th)	Thomas Mustin	The Royal Exchange	L'Échange des princesses
	Basile Grunberger	Our Struggles	Nos batailles
	Baptiste Lalieu	The Benefit of the Doubt	Une Part d'ombre
	Matteo Salamone	Mon Ket
2019 (10th)	Idir Ben Addi	Young Ahmed	Le Jeune Ahmed
	Baloji	Binti
	François Neycken	Escapada
	Jeremy Senez	Three Days and a Life	Trois jours et une vie

2020s

Year	Actor	English title	Original title
2020/21 (11th)	Günter Duret	Playground	Un monde
	Roméo Elvis	Mandibles	Mandibules
	Basile Grunberger	SpaceBoy
	Yoann Zimmer	Home Front	Des hommes