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17th Joseph Plateau Awards

May 7, 2004

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Best Film:
The Memory of a Killer

The 17th Joseph Plateau Awards, given on 7 May 2004, honored the best Belgian filmmaking of 2003.

Erik Van Looy's De Zaak Alzheimer (a.k.a. The Alzheimer Case or The Memory of a Killer) won five awards: Best Film, Actor (Decleir), Director (Van Looy), Screenplay and the Box Office Award. dEUS' singer Tom Barman's film Any Way the Wind Blows won two awards.

Winners

• Best Actor:
  • Jan Decleir - De Zaak Alzheimer
• Best Actress:
  • Natali Broods - Any Way the Wind Blows
• Best Composer:
  • Tom Barman - Any Way the Wind Blows
• Best Director:
  • Erik Van Looy - De Zaak Alzheimer
• Best Film:
  • De Zaak Alzheimer
• Best Screenplay:
  • De Zaak Alzheimer - Carl Joos and Erik Van Looy
• Best Short Film:
  • Mayra
• Box office award:
  • De Zaak Alzheimer