Nacht van de Film
Though Belgian film industry modestly produces between 10 and 15 theatrical features every year, the Flanders International Film Festival-Ghent wants to contribute the quality and self-confidence of Belgian filmmaking by creating professional film awards : THE JOSEPH PLATEAU AWARDS
Joseph Plateau was a professor of physics at the Ghent University. Somewhere during the 19th century, he defined the persistence of vision, which turned out to become the basic principle of the idea of <<moving images>>. Plateau invented the Phenakistiscope, by which illusions of motion could be created.
By means of two ballots the Belgian film professionals determine the winners of the Joseph Plateau Awards. The awards represent a replica of Plateau's Phenakistiscope and will be distributed during the Night of Film OCTOBER 10th, 1997.
The nominees for the JOSEPH PLATEAU AWARDS 1996-1997 are:
* BEST BELGIAN ACTOR 1996/97
- PETER VAN DEN BEGIN ("Alles Moet Weg")
- STANY CRETS ("Alles Moet Weg")
- JAN DECLEIR ("Karakter")
* BEST BELGIAN ACTRICE 1996/97:
- INGE DE WAELE ("La Sicilia")
- SOPHIA LEBOUTTE ("La Promesse")
- SABRINA LEURQUIN ("Gaston's War")
* BEST BELGIAN DIRECTOR 1996/97:
- ROBBE DE HERT ("Gaston's War")
- ALAIN BERLINER ("Ma Vie En Rose")
- LUC & JEAN-PIERRE DARDENNE ("La Promesse")
* BEST BELGIAN FILM 1996/97
- KARAKTER
- LA PROMESSE
- ALLES MOET WEG
Apart from these categories, there are two special Joseph Plateau Awards:
* THE JOSEPH PLATEAU BOX OFFICE AWARD, for the best Belgian box office film of the past year.
* THE JOSEPH PLATEAU AWARD OF HONOR, for a filmmaker with a meritorious career.