Gala Québec Cinéma

The Gala Québec Cinéma is a Quebec film award, presented annually by Québec Cinéma, which recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly feature film industry of Quebec. Until 2016, it was known as La soirée des prix Jutra in reference of influential Quebec film director Claude Jutra, but Jutra's name was withdrawn from the awards following the publication of Yves Lever's biography of Jutra, which alleged that he had sexually abused children.
It should not be confused with the Claude Jutra Award, a special award presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television as part of the separate Canadian Screen Awards program which was also renamed in 2016 following the allegations against Jutra.

History

Introduced in 1999, the awards are presented for Best Film and performance, writing and technical categories such as best actor, actress, director, screenplay, et cetera. Due to Quebec's majority francophone population, most films made in the province are French-language films, but English-language films made in the province are also fully eligible for nomination. The awards maintain slightly different eligibility criteria for international coproductions, however: a coproduction which surpasses the organization's criteria for "majority Québécois" involvement is treated the same as a Quebec film, with full eligibility in all categories, while a coproduction which is classified as "minority Québécois", such as the 2015 film Brooklyn, is eligible only in categories where a resident of Quebec is the nominee, and cannot be submitted for Best Film.
The initial creation of the awards sparked some concern that the idea of a separate award for Quebec films would undermine the pan-Canadian scope of the Genie Awards; Québec Cinéma clarified that it did not have, and would not impose, a rule that films could not be submitted for both awards, although at least one film producer, Roger Frappier, voluntarily declined to submit the films August 32nd on Earth and 2 Seconds for Genie consideration at all on the grounds that since neither film was projected to be popular outside Quebec, they would purportedly not get any public relations or marketing benefit out of Genie nominations. Frappier has not subsequently refused to submit other films to the Genies or the Canadian Screen Awards after 1999.
Following the withdrawal of Jutra's name from the award, the 2016 awards were presented solely under the name Québec Cinéma pending an announcement of the award's new permanent name. The Prix Iris name was announced in October 2016.
The trophy was designed by sculptor Charles Daudelin. The awards replaced the prix Guy-L'Écuyer, created in 1987 by Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois in memory of actor Guy L'Écuyer.
The 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards ceremony, originally planned for June 7, 2020, was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada; unlike the 8th Canadian Screen Awards, however, the award nominations had not yet been released when the cancellation of the ceremony was announced. Nominations were still released on April 22, and the winners were announced via livestreaming on June 10.
Following the death of influential Quebec filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée in December 2021, there was some public demand that Québec Cinéma rename the awards to the Prix Vallée in his honour.
In 2022, Radio-Canada announced that due to declining ratings in recent years, it would not televise the 2023 awards, and was instead planning alternative ways to highlight Quebec film in its programming. In February 2023, Québec Cinéma indicated that it was in negotiations with other broadcasters to carry the 25th Quebec Cinema Awards; as of May 2023, however, the organization had confirmed only that the ceremony would not take place in its usual June scheduling. In July 2023, Québec Cinéma announced that the ceremony would be held in December 2023, and broadcast by Noovo. The organization has since maintained the December scheduling, with an eligibility period currently extending from September of the previous year to August of the same year as the ceremony.

Ceremonies and Best Film winners

Most wins and nominations

The following films received at least 10 nominations:

Nominations	Title
22	Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
18	Viking
17	Drunken Birds
17	Universal Language
16	1991
16	Goddess of the Fireflies
16	Maria Chapdelaine
15	Peak Everything
15	Two Women
14	C.R.A.Z.Y.
14	The Rocket
14	The 3 L'il Pigs
14	Babysitter
14	Red Rooms
14	The Nature of Love
13	Seducing Doctor Lewis
13	Bon Cop, Bad Cop
13	And the Birds Rained Down
13	Underground
13	The Vinland Club
13	The Time Thief
13	Shepherds
12	The Barbarian Invasions
12	A Sunday in Kigali
12	Incendies
12	It's Only the End of the World
12	Two Lovers and a Bear
12	For Those Who Don't Read Me
12	The Dishwasher
11	The Red Violin
11	Laurence Anyways
11	Louis Cyr
11	Mommy
11	The Passion of Augustine
11	La Bolduc
11	A Brother's Love
11	Ghost Town Anthology
11	My Salinger Year
11	Beans
11	1995
10	Séraphin: Heart of Stone
10	Gaz Bar Blues
10	Audition
10	Through the Mist
10	Monsieur Lazhar
10	War Witch
10	Gabrielle
10	You're Sleeping Nicole
10	Tom at the Farm
10	Corbo
10	Hochelaga, Land of Souls
10	Infiltration
10	Mafia Inc.
10	Target Number One
10	Richelieu
10	Solo

The following films received at least 5 awards :

Awards	Title
16	C.R.A.Z.Y.
11	Viking
10	Incendies
10	Mommy
10	Drunken Birds
9	The Red Violin
9	Maelström
9	Louis Cyr
8	Monsieur Lazhar
8	War Witch
8	Ravenous
8	Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
8	Universal Language
7	Soft Shell Man
7	The Barbarian Invasions
7	Seducing Doctor Lewis
7	Séraphin: Heart of Stone
7	Goddess of the Fireflies
6	A Sunday in Kigali
6	The Passion of Augustine
6	La Bolduc
6	Antigone
5	Post Mortem
5	Bittersweet Memories
5	Congorama
5	Babine
5	Polytechnique
5	Gabrielle
5	It's Only the End of the World
5	Hochelaga, Land of Souls
5	1991

The following individuals received at least 10 nominations:

Nominations	Nominee
32	Bernard Gariépy Strobl
31	Xavier Dolan
27	Luc Boudrias
26	Sylvain Corbeil
26	Nancy Grant
24	Luc Déry
23	Sylvain Bellemare
23	Kim McCraw
18	Olivier Calvert
16	Stéphane Bergeron
15	Kathryn Casault
15	Claude La Haye
15	Martin Lapointe
15	André Turpin
14	Claude Beaugrand
14	Roger Frappier
14	Sara Mishara
14	Denise Robert
13	André-Line Beauparlant
13	Denis Côté
13	Philippe Falardeau
13	Stéphane Lafleur
13	Robert Morin
13	Luc Picard
13	Hans Peter Strobl
13	Luc Vandal
12	Marc Bertrand
12	Céline Bonnier
12	Gavin Fernandes
12	Ricardo Trogi
11	Nathalie Boutrie
11	Monia Chokri
11	Marie-Claude Lafontaine
11	Denis Villeneuve
10	Robin Aubert
10	Francesca Chamberland
10	Sophie Deraspe
10	Louis Gignac
10	Nathanaël Karmitz
10	Lyse Lafontaine
10	Christian Larouche
10	Ginette Magny
10	Galilé Marion-Gauvin
10	Kim Nguyen
10	Denis Parent
10	Theodore Ushev

The following individuals received at least 5 awards :

Awards	Nominee
15	Xavier Dolan
10	Bernard Gariépy Strobl
10	Nancy Grant
9	Luc Déry
9	André Turpin
9	Denis Villeneuve
8	Kim McCraw
8	Stéphane Lafleur
7	Martin Lapointe
7	Denise Robert
7	Jean-Marc Vallée
6	Claude Beaugrand
6	Sylvain Bellemare
6	Richard Comeau
6	Sylvain Corbeil
6	Hans Peter Strobl
5	Denys Arcand
5	Louise Archambault
5	Philippe Falardeau
5	Claude La Haye
5	Léa Pool