This 16th edition of Filmfestival Oostende is officially over. As I’m writing this it’s February 4, a day after Filmfestival Oostende ended. And it did with the awardshow for the Ensors. But before I give you the winners of the Ensors, we look back at day 8 where we had the last star that was unveiled for Dutch actor Frank Lammers. He had the honor to get the last star of this edition of FFO and was very happy to get it. In total there are 123 stars now on the Walk of Fame and more are coming the next few years.
In the evening it was time for the Jamies, the online awards. The big winner of the night was Average Rob, who won the epic Jamie for the best video of the year which he made with his brother Arno the Kid and friends Milan Cools. Rob and Arno made a video of their journey to run an Iron Man, which they also really did. Average Rob also won the Jamie for best creator of the year.
The other winners of the night are:
- Gloria Boateng won the Good Vibes Jamie
- Jonatan Medart won the Vlogging Jamie
- radio station QMusic won the Business Jamie
- Bockie De Repper won the Commercial Collab Jamie for his collaboration with Accountants Van Morgen
- Michael Amani won the Music Jamie
- Christopher A. Lobanzo won the Comedy Jamie
- Acid won the Long Jamie
- Elodie Gabias won the Short Jamie
- the series Knokke Off won the Fiction Jamie
- Gerben and Steffi won the Reality Jamie for their show about their life
- Maureen Naudts won the Niche Jamie
- Michiel Vandeweert won the Kastiop Award for Best Gamer
- Gossip Guy won the Talking Jamie
- The Gaze got the Skilled Jamie
- Anastasya Chernook received the Jamie for Rising Star
- the online team of nws.nws.nws won the Explaining Jamie
It was a crazy night full of amazing winners.
And then the next day the Ensors happened, which was another crazy night full of amazing winners. The big winners of the night were Wil on the film side and 1985 on the series side. Wil, which was nominated 14 times, won 7 Ensors and 1985, which was nominated 15 times, won ten Ensors. Both won the most important award of Best Film and Best Series.
During the Filmfestival there were already some awards that were given including one for Wil which won the Box Office Award. Also given during the Filmfestival this week were the Albert Bert Prize for International Performance of the year for Jo Willems, the Ensor for Rising Star of the year was for Baloji who also won the Ensor for Best French-speaking Belgian film for Augure, Best Coproduction was for Mascotte, the Ensor for merit special attention was for Jos Stelling and Marc Didden received the Lifetime Achievement Award 2024.
Here is the full list of winners of the awards that were given the night of the Ensors:
- Best series: 1985
- Best film: Wil
- Best children program: #LikeMe
- Best lead role in a series: Aimé Claeys – 1985
- Best supporting role in a series: Tom Vermeir – 1985
- Best lead role in a film: Stef Aerts – Wil
- Best supporting role in a film: Jan Bijvoet – Wil
- Best director series: Wouter Bouvijn – 1985
- Best director film: Tim Mielants – Wil
- Best script series: Willem Wallyn – 1985
- Best script film: Carl Joos – Wil
- Best edit: Pieter Smet – 1985
- Best music: David Martijn, Jeroen Swinnen – 1985
- Best costume: Sophie Van den Keybus – 1985
- Best make-up: Esther De Goey – Rough Diamonds
- Best documentary film: Planeet B – Pieter Van Eecke
- Best documentary series: Godvergeten – Ibbe Daniëls, Ingrid Schildermans
- Best shortfilm: Klette – Michael Abay
- Best animation: Knor
- Best sound: Arne Winderickx, Matthias Hillegeer – 1985
- Best art direction: Stijn Verhoeven – 1985
- Best photography: Robrecht Heyvaert – Wil
- Telenet Audience award: Zeevonk
Before the Ensors happened in the evening, I went to see two more films: Polite Society and Race for Glory. Polite Society was a fun film to watch. It was worth it to wake up a bit earlier to go watch it in the morning. Race for Glory, which is a co-production between France and Italy, was nice, but one of the less good films I saw during the Festival. But it was two nice films to see to end the festival. It was another amazing edition and I already look forward to the next one next year.
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