The Grand Prix is an annual award presented by the Belgian Film Critics Association (, 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". 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 YearFilmDirector 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 YearFilmDirector 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 YearFilmDirector 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 YearFilmDirector 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 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 YearFilmDirector 1990 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 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 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 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 Raining Stones Ken Loach City of Hope John Sayles Naked Mike Leigh One False Move Carl Franklin Reservoir Dogs Quentin Tarantino 1995 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 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 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 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 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 YearFilmDirector 2000 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 YearFilmDirector 2010 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 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 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 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 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 Timbuktu Abderrahmane SissakoBoyhood 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 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 Carol Todd Haynes Frantz François Ozon Hell or High Water David Mackenzie Paterson Jim Jarmusch Truman Cesc Gay 2018 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 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 YearFilmDirector 2020 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 1917 Sam Mendes A Hidden Life Terrence Malick Jojo Rabbit Taika Waititi La Llorona Jayro Bustamante Little Women Greta Gerwig 2022 The Worst Person in the World (Verdens verste menneske) Joachim Trier Dear Comrades! (Dorogie tovarishchi!) Andrei Konchalovsky Josep Nomadland Chloé Zhao The Power of the Dog Jane Campion 2023 Vortex Gaspar Noé Close Lukas Dhont Drive My Car (Doraibu Mai Kā) Ryūsuke Hamaguchi EO Jerzy Skolimowski Triangle of Sadness Ruben Östlund 2024 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 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 2026 Black Dog (Gou Zhen) Guan Hu Nino Pauline Loquès Resurrection (Kuángyě Shídài) Bi Gan Sentimental Value (Affeksjonsverdi) Joachim Trier The Voice of Hind Rajab (Ṣawt Hind Rajab) Kaouther Ben Hania
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