Prix Iris for Best Film

The Prix Iris for Best Film (French: Prix Iris du meilleur film) is an annual film award presented Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris program, to honour the year's best film made within the Cinema of Quebec.^[1]

Until 2016, it was known as the Jutra Award for Best Film in memory of influential Quebec film director Claude Jutra.^[2] Following the withdrawal of Jutra's name from the award, the 2016 award was presented under the name Québec Cinéma.^[2] The Prix Iris name was announced in October 2016.^[3]

Producing duo Luc Déry and Kim McCraw received the most nominations and awards. Together, they were nominated for twelve films and won six awards, while Déry received another nomination and win for Soft Shell Man (Un crabe dans la tête) before their partnership. The pair also won two consecutive awards thrice, first in 2007 and 2008, then in 2011 and 2012 and finally in 2022 and 2023.

1990s

Year	Film	Producers	Ref
1999 1st Jutra Awards
	The Red Violin (Le violon rouge)	Niv Fichman	[4]
	2 Seconds (2 secondes)	Roger Frappier	[5]
	August 32nd on Earth (Un 32 août sur terre)	Roger Frappier
	Nô	Bruno Jobin

2000s

Year	Film	Producers	Ref
2000 2nd Jutra Awards
	Post Mortem	Lorraine Dufour	[6]
	The Last Breath (Le dernier souffle)	Jacques Bonin, Claude Veillet, Lucie Veillet, Sylvie Roy	[7]
	Memories Unlocked (Souvenirs intimes)	Jean-Roch Marcotte
	Set Me Free (Emporte-moi)	Louis Laverdière
2001 3rd Jutra Awards
	Maelström	Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal	[8]
	Hochelaga	Michel Jetté, Louise Sabourin	[9]
	Life After Love (La vie après l'amour)	Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal
	The Orphan Muses (Les muses orphelines)	Lyse Lafontaine, Pierre Latour
2002 4th Jutra Awards
	Soft Shell Man (Un crabe dans la tête)	Luc Déry, Joseph Hillel	[10]
	February 15, 1839 (15 février 1839)	Bernadette Payeur	[11]
	Tar Angel (L'ange de goudron)	Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal
	The Woman Who Drinks (La femme qui boit)	Bernadette Payeur
2003 5th Jutra Awards
	Québec-Montréal	Nicole Robert	[12]
	The Collector (Le collectionneur)	Christian Larouche, Ginette Petit	[13]
	The Marsh (Le marais)	Yves Fortin
	Séraphin: Heart of Stone (Séraphin: un homme et son péché)	Lorraine Richard
2004 6th Jutra Awards
	The Barbarian Invasions (Les invasions barbares)	Denise Robert, Daniel Louis	[14]
	Far Side of the Moon (La face cachée de la lune)	Bob Krupinski, Mario St-Laurent	[15]
	Gaz Bar Blues	Lorraine Dufour
	Seducing Doctor Lewis (La grande séduction)	Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal
2005 7th Jutra Awards
	Looking for Alexander (Mémoires affectives)	Barbara Shrier	[16]
	Bittersweet Memories (Ma vie en cinémascope)	Denise Robert, Daniel Louis	[17]
	The Five of Us (Elles étaient cinq)	Maxime Rémillard, Richard Lalonde
	Love and Magnets (Les aimants)	Nicole Robert, Gabriel Pelletier
2006 8th Jutra Awards
	C.R.A.Z.Y.	Pierre Even, Jean-Marc Vallée	[18]
	Audition (L'audition)	Luc Martineau, Lorraine Richard	[19]
	The Novena (La neuvaine)	Bernadette Payeur
	The Rocket (Maurice Richard)	Denise Robert, Daniel Louis
2007 9th Jutra Awards
	Congorama	Luc Déry, Kim McCraw	[20]
	Bon Cop, Bad Cop	Kevin Tierney	[21]
	The Secret Life of Happy People (La vie secrète des gens heureux)	Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal
	A Sunday in Kigali (Un dimanche à Kigali)	Lyse Lafontaine, Michael Mosca
2008 10th Jutra Awards
	Continental, a Film Without Guns (Continental, un film sans fusil)	Luc Déry, Kim McCraw	[22]
	Days of Darkness (L'âge des ténèbres)	Denise Robert, Daniel Louis	[23]
	The 3 L'il Pigs (Les 3 p'tits cochons)	Pierre Gendron, Christian Larouche
	Twilight (La brunante)	Jean-Roch Marcotte
2009 11th Jutra Awards
	The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre)	Bernadette Payeur, René Chénier	[24]
	Borderline	Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal	[25]
	It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, je le jure!)	Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
	Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (Maman est chez le coiffeur)	Lyse Lafontaine, Michael Mosca

2010s

Year	Film	Producers	Ref
2010 12th Jutra Awards
	I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère)	Xavier Dolan, Carole Mondello, Daniel Morin	[26]
	1981	Nicole Robert	[27]
	Before Tomorrow (Le jour avant le lendemain)	Stéphane Rituit, Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk
	Polytechnique	Maxime Rémillard, Don Carmody
	Through the Mist (Dédé, à travers les brumes)	Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal
2011 13th Jutra Awards
	Incendies	Luc Déry, Kim McCraw	[28]
	10½	Pierre Gendron	[29]
	Curling	Stéphanie Morissette, Denis Côté
	Heartbeats (Les amours imaginaires)	Xavier Dolan, Daniel Morin, Carole Mondello
	Vital Signs (Les signes vitaux)	Nicolas Fonseca
2012 14th Jutra Awards
	Monsieur Lazhar	Luc Déry, Kim McCraw	[30]
	Coteau rouge	Linda Pinet, André Forcier	[31]
	Nuit#1	Nancy Grant, Sylvain Corbeil
	The Salesman (Le vendeur)	Bernadette Payeur, Marc Daigle
	Starbuck	André Rouleau
2013 15th Jutra Awards
	War Witch (Rebelle)	Pierre Even, Marie-Claude Poulin	[32]
	Camion	Stéphanie Morissette	[33]
	Inch'Allah	Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
	Laurence Anyways	Charles Gillibert, Nathanaël Karmitz, Lyse Lafontaine
	Romeo Eleven (Roméo Onze)	Paul Barbeau
2014 16th Jutra Awards
	Louis Cyr (Louis Cyr: L'homme le plus fort du monde)	Christian Larouche, Caroline Héroux, Stephanie Heroux	[34]
	Catimini	Nicolas Comeau, Nathalie Saint-Pierre	[35]
	Diego Star	Pascal Bascaron, Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant, Marion Hänsel
	The Dismantling (Le démantèlement)	Marc Daigle, Bernadette Payeur
	Gabrielle	Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
2015 17th Jutra Awards
	Mommy	Nancy Grant, Xavier Dolan	[36]
	1987	Nicole Robert	[37]
	3 Indian Tales (3 histoires d'indiens)	Virginie Dubois, Robert Morin
	Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme)	Xavier Dolan, Nancy Grant, Lyse Lafontaine, Charles Gillibert, Nathanaël Karmitz
	You're Sleeping Nicole (Tu dors Nicole)	Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
2016 18th Quebec Cinema Awards
	The Passion of Augustine (La passion d'Augustine)	Lyse Lafontaine, François Tremblay	[38]
	Corbo	Félize Frappier	[39]
	The Demons (Les démons)	Philippe Lesage, Galilé Marion-Gauvin
	Felix and Meira (Félix et Meira)	Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant, Maxime Giroux
	Our Loved Ones (Les êtres chers)	Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant
2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards
	It's Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde)	Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant, Xavier Dolan, Elisha Karmitz, Nathanaël Karmitz, Michel Merkt	[40]
	Bad Seeds (Les mauvaises herbes)	Lorraine Dufour, Luc Vandal	[41]
	Before the Streets (Avant les rues)	Chloé Leriche
	Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (Ceux qui font les révolutions à moitié n'ont fait que se creuser un tombeau)	Hany Ouichou
	Two Lovers and a Bear	Roger Frappier, Jonathan Bronfman, Ellen Hamilton
2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards
	Ravenous (Les affamés)	Stéphanie Morissette	[42]
	Boost	Frédéric Bohbot, Kieran Crilly, Darren Curtis	[43]
	Cross My Heart (Les rois mongols)	Stéphanie Pages, Luc Chatelain
	Family First (Chien de garde)	Étienne Hansez
	Infiltration (Le problème d'infiltration)	Luc Vandal
	The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes)	Marcel Giroux
	Tuktuq	Robin Aubert
2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards
	1991	Nicole Robert	[44]
	La Bolduc	Valérie D'Auteuil, André Rouleau	[45]
	A Colony (Une colonie)	Fanny Drew, Sarah Mannering
	For Those Who Don't Read Me (À tous ceux qui ne me lisent pas)	Luc Déry, Élaine Hébert, Kim McCraw
	Genesis (Genèse)	Galilé Marion-Gauvin
	Ghost Town Anthology (Répertoire des villes disparues)	Ziad Touma
	The Great Darkened Days (La grande noirceur)	Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant

2020s

Year	Film	Producers	Ref
2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards
	Antigone	Marc Daigle	[46]
	And the Birds Rained Down (Il pleuvait des oiseaux)	Ginette Petit	[47]
	A Brother's Love (La femme de mon frère)	Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant
	Fabulous (Fabuleuses)	Nicole Robert
	Kuessipan	Félize Frappier
	Mafia Inc.	Antonello Cozzolino, Valérie D'Auteuil, André Rouleau
	Young Juliette (Jeune Juliette)	Sylvain Corbeil
2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards
	Goddess of the Fireflies (La déesse des mouches à feu)	Luc Vandal	[48]
	My Salinger Year	Luc Déry, Kim McCraw, Ruth Coady, Susan Mullen	[49]
	Nadia, Butterfly	Dominique Dussault
	Underground (Souterrain)	Étienne Hansez
	The Vinland Club (Le club Vinland)	Chantal Lafleur
2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards
	Drunken Birds (Les oiseaux ivres)	Luc Déry, Kim McCraw	[50]
	Beans	Anne-Marie Gélinas	[51]
	Maria Chapdelaine	Pierre Even, Sylvain Proulx
	Norbourg	Réal Chabot
	Without Havana (Sin la Habana)	Ménaïc Raoul, Gabrielle Tougas-Fréchette
2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards
	Viking	Luc Déry, Kim McCraw	[52]
	Babysitter	Martin Paul-Hus, Catherine Léger, Pierre-Marcel Blanchot, Fabrice Lambot	[53]
	The Dishwasher (Le plongeur)	Marie-Claude Poulin
	Falcon Lake	Nancy Grant, Sylvain Corbeil, Dany Boon, Jalil Lespert, Julien Deris, David Gauquié, Jean-Luc Ormières
	Family Game (Arseneault et fils)	Stéphanie Morissette, Charles Stéphane Roy
	Noemie Says Yes (Noémie dit oui)	Patricia Bergeron
	Red Rooms (Les chambres rouges)	Dominique Dussault
2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards
	Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant)	Jeanne-Marie Poulain, Line Sander Egede	[54]
	1995	Marie-Claude Poulin	[55]
	Ababooned (Ababouiné)	Roger Frappier, Louis Laverdière, Linda Pinet
	The Nature of Love (Simple comme Sylvain)	Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant, Elisha Karmitz, Nathanaël Karmitz
	Richelieu	Geneviève Gosselin-G.
	Ru	André Dupuy, Marie-Alexandra Forget
	Solo	Étienne Hansez

Multiple wins and nominations

Multiple wins Wins Producer 7 Luc Déry 6 Kim McCraw 3 Xavier Dolan 2 Nancy Grant Pierre Even Nicole Robert Luc Vandal

Three or more nominations Nominations Producer 13 Luc Déry 12 Kim McCraw 11 Roger Frappier Nancy Grant 10 Sylvain Corbeil Luc Vandal 6 Lyse Lafontaine Bernadette Payeur Nicole Robert 5 Xavier Dolan 4 Nathanaël Karmitz Daniel Louis Stéphanie Morisette Denise Robert 3 Marc Daigle Lorraine Dufour Pierre Even Étienne Hansez Christian Larouche Marie-Claude Poulin André Rouleau

See also

• Canadian Screen Award for Best Motion Picture

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