The 12th Magritte Awards ceremony is an upcoming awarding event to honor the best films of 2022 in Belgium and is scheduled to take place on 4 March 2023, at the Théâtre National in the historic site of Marais-Jacqmain, Brussels beginning at 8:00 p.m. CET. During the ceremony, the Académie André Delvaux will present Magritte Awards in 23 categories. The ceremony will be televised in Belgium by La Trois. Actress Lubna Azabal will preside the ceremony, while film director Patrick Ridremont will host the show for the first time. The nominees for the 12th Magritte Awards were announced on 10 February 2023. Films with the most nominations were Close with ten, followed by Zero Fucks Given with nine and Nobody Has to Know with seven. Nominees Best Film Animals The Hive (La Ruche) Nobody Has to Know Tori and Lokita (Tori et Lokita) Zero Fucks Given (Rien à foutre) Best Director Nabil Ben Yadir – Animals Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne – Tori and Lokita (Tori et Lokita) Bouli Lanners – Nobody Has to Know Julie Lecoustre and Emmanuel Marre – Zero Fucks Given (Rien à foutre) Best Actor Aboubakr Bensaihi – Rebel Soufiane Chilah – Animals Bouli Lanners – The Night of the 12th (La Nuit du 12) Benoît Poelvoorde – Inexorable Jérémie Renier – L'Ennemi Best Actress Lubna Azabal – Rebel Lucie Debay – Lucie Loses Her Horse (Lucie perd son cheval) Virginie Efira – Paris Memories (Revoir Paris) Babetida Sadjo – Juwaa Best Supporting Actor Mehdi Dehbi – Boy from Heaven (صبي من الجنة) Tijmen Govaerts – Tori and Lokita (Tori et Lokita) Jérémie Renier – Novembre Igor Van Dessel – Close Best Supporting Actress Veerle Baetens – Singing Jailbirds (À l'ombre des filles) Anne Coesens – By Your Side (À la folie) Émilie Dequenne – Close Mara Taquin – Zero Fucks Given (Rien à foutre) Most Promising Actor Eden Dambrine – Close Gustav De Waele – Close Gianni Guettaf – Animals Pablo Schils – Tori and Lokita (Tori et Lokita) Most Promising Actress Sophie Breyer – The Hive (La Ruche) Elsa Houben – Dark Heart of the Forest (Le Cœur noir des forêts) Joely Mbundu – Tori and Lokita (Tori et Lokita) Mara Taquin – The Hive (La Ruche) Best Screenplay Animals – Nabil Ben Yadir and Antoine Cuypers Close – Lukas Dhont Nobody Has to Know – Bouli Lanners Zero Fucks Given (Rien à foutre) –