The André Cavens Award (french: Prix André-Cavens) is an accolade presented annually by the
Belgian Film Critics Association
The Belgian Film Critics Association (french: Union de la critique de cinéma, UCC) is an organization of film critics from publications based in Brussels, Belgium.
History
The Belgian Film Critics Association was founded in the early 1950s in Br ...
(UCC), an organization of
film critics
Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: journalistic criticism that appears regularly in newspapers, magazines and other popular mass-media outlets ...
from publications based in
Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
. The André Cavens Award was introduced in 1976 by the organizing committee to honor cinematic achievement in Belgium.
The name of the award comes from film director
André Cavens
André Cavens (1 October 1912 – 9 April 1971), born in Brussels, Uccle, was a Belgian film director, film producer and screenwriter.
His career started in 1961 as the director and producer of the drama '' A Train Leaves in Every Hour'' ...
.
The most awarded filmmakers are
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne (; born 21 April 1951) and Luc Dardenne (born 10 March 1954), collectively referred to as the Dardenne brothers, are a Belgian filmmaking duo. They write, produce, and direct their films together.
The Dardennes ...
with five awards, followed by
Jaco Van Dormael
Jaco Van Dormael (born 9 February 1957) is a Belgian film director, screenwriter and playwright. His films especially focus on a respectful and sympathetic portrayal of people with mental and physical disabilities.
Van Dormael spent his childh ...
,
Joachim Lafosse
Joachim Lafosse (born 18 January 1975) is a Belgian film director and screenwriter.
Career
Lafosse studied at the IAD (Institut des arts de diffusion) at Louvain-la-Neuve between 1997 and 2001. His graduation film ''Tribu'', a 24-minute short ...
, and
Fien Troch
Fien Troch (born 1978, in Londerzeel) is a Belgium, Belgian left field film director, producer and screenwriter.
Career
After graduating from the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel, Sint-Lukas art academy in Brussels in 2000, she achieved several nom ...
with three. Other multiple winners are
Jean-Jacques Andrien
Jean-Jacques Andrien (born 1 June 1944) is a Belgian film director. Le Monde deem his film '' Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven'' (1981), to be ''the first great Film of a Walloon cinema'' ''This film addresses two problems; the first is that o ...
,
André Delvaux
André Albert Auguste Delvaux (; 21 March 1926 – 4 October 2002) was a Belgian film director. He co-founded the film school INSAS in 1962 and is regarded as the founder of the Belgian national cinema. Adapting works by writers such as Johan ...
, and
Lukas Dhont
Lukas Dhont (born 1991) () is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. He was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in 2019.
Early life
Dhont was born in Gent (in English Ghent), Belgium. His mother, Hilbe is a fashion teacher at an art ...
with two awards each. As of 2022, ''
Close
Close may refer to:
Music
* ''Close'' (Kim Wilde album), 1988
* ''Close'' (Marvin Sapp album), 2017
* ''Close'' (Sean Bonniwell album), 1969
* "Close" (Sub Focus song), 2014
* "Close" (Nick Jonas song), 2016
* "Close" (Rae Sremmurd song), 201 ...
'' is the most recent winner.
Winners
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
References
External links
André Cavens Awardsat
RTBF
The ''Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française'' (RTBF, ''Belgian Radio-television of the French Community'', branded as rtbf.be) is a public service broadcaster delivering radio and television services to the French-speaking Commu ...
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Belgian film awards
Awards established in 1976
Awards for best film
Lists of films by award