The Prix Iris for Most Successful Film Outside Quebec (French : Prix Iris du film s'étant le plus illustré à l'extérieur du Québec ) is an annual film award presented by Québec Cinéma as part of the Prix Iris awards program, to honour films made within the Cinema of Quebec which have had significant success beyond the province, both in English Canada and internationally.
For the purposes of the award, "success" is calculated as a weighted formula incorporating a variety of factors, including box office tallies, film festival bookings, awards and sales to international distributors.[ 1] The award takes into account success attained within the eligibility period regardless of when the film was originally released; on two occasions to date, the same film has won the award two years in a row, and on two occasions films have had moderate success in their original year of release, making the shortlist but not being named as the winner, and then went on to win the award the following year.
Until 2016, it was known as the Jutra Award for Most Successful Film Outside Quebec 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]
The award was first presented at the 2nd Jutra Awards in 2000. For the first nine years of its existence, only the winner was named each year; beginning with the 11th Jutra Awards in 2009, an advance shortlist of films eligible for the award was announced. Initially, only the directors would receive the awards. Starting at the 16th Jutra Awards , producers were added to award, while screenwriters would be included starting at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards .
Producer Nancy Grant received the most nominations, eleven, while she and Xavier Dolan received the most awards, with five each, including three shared wins for Mommy , It's Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde) and Matthias & Maxime . With her win for The Nature of Love (Simple comme Sylvain) , she became the third person to receive ten awards, tying Bernard Gariépy-Strobl and only trailing behind Xavier Dolan with fifteen wins.
Year Film Filmmakers 2010 12th Jutra Awards I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère) Xavier Dolan It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, je le jure!) Philippe Falardeau Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (Maman est chez le coiffeur) Léa Pool The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre) Benoît Pilon A No-Hit No-Run Summer (Un été sans point ni coup sûr) Francis Leclerc 2011 13th Jutra Awards Heartbeats (Les Amours imaginaires) Xavier Dolan Curling Denis Côté Incendies Denis Villeneuve 7 Days (Les 7 jours du talion) Daniel Grou The Trotsky Jacob Tierney 2012 14th Jutra Awards Incendies Denis Villeneuve Café de Flore Jean-Marc Vallée Curling Denis Côté Monsieur Lazhar Philippe Falardeau The Salesman (Le vendeur) Sébastien Pilote 2013 15th Jutra Awards Monsieur Lazhar Philippe Falardeau Bestiaire Denis Côté Camion Rafaël Ouellet Laurence Anyways Xavier Dolan Starbuck Ken Scott War Witch (Rebelle) Kim Nguyen 2014[ 6] 16th Jutra Awards Gabrielle Louise Archambault , Luc Déry , Kim McCraw The Dismantling (Le Démantèlement) Sébastien Pilote , Bernadette Payeur , Marc Daigle Inch'Allah Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette , Luc Déry , Kim McCraw , Stephen Traynor Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme) Xavier Dolan , Nancy Grant , Lyse Lafontaine , Charles Gillibert , Nathanaël Karmitz Vic and Flo Saw a Bear (Vic+Flo ont vu un ours) Denis Côté , Stéphanie Morissette , Sylvain Corbeil 2015 17th Jutra Awards Mommy Xavier Dolan , Nancy Grant Gerontophilia Bruce LaBruce , Nicolas Cormeau Leonard Farlinger , Jennifer Jonas The Grand Seduction Don McKellar , Roger Frappier , Barbara Doran 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) Stéphane Lafleur , Luc Déry , Kim McCraw 2016[ 7] 18th Quebec Cinema Awards Felix and Meira (Félix et Meira) Maxime Giroux , Sylvain Corbeil , Nancy Grant Chorus François Delisle , Maxime Bernard Elephant Song Charles Binamé , Richard Goudreau , Lenny Jo Goudreau The Passion of Augustine (La passion d'Augustine) Léa Pool , Lyse Lafontaine , François Tremblay Turbo Kid François Simard , Anouk Whissell , Yoann-Karl Whissell , Anne-Marie Gélinas , Benoît Beaulieu , Tim Riley, Ant Timpson 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards It's Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde) Xavier Dolan , Sylvain Corbeil , Nancy Grant , Elisha Karmitz , Nathanaël Karmitz , Michel Merkt Boris Without Béatrice (Boris sans Béatrice) Denis Côté , Sylvain Corbeil , Nancy Grant Nelly Anne Émond , Nicole Robert Shambles (Maudite poutine) Karl Lemieux , Sylvain Corbeil , Nancy Grant Two Lovers and a Bear Kim Nguyen , Roger Frappier , Jonathan Bronfman , Ellen Hamilton 2018[ 8] 20th Quebec Cinema Awards Ravenous (Les Affamés) Robin Aubert , Stéphanie Morissette All You Can Eat Buddha Ian Lagarde , Ménaïc Raoul , Gabrielle Tougas-Fréchette Ballerina Éric Summer , Éric Warin , Valérie D’Auteuil , André Rouleau , Nicolas Duval-Adassovsky , Laurent Zeitoun , Yann Zenou Hochelaga, Land of Souls (Hochelaga, terre des âmes) François Girard , Roger Frappier X Quinientos Juan Andrés Arango , Yanick Létourneau , Jorge Andrés Botero , Edher Campos , Luis Salinas 2019[ 9] 21st Quebec Cinema Awards The Fall of the American Empire (La Chute de l'empire américain) Denys Arcand , Denise Robert Cielo Alison McAlpine , Paola Castillo Eye on Juliet Kim Nguyen , Pierre Even The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles) Sébastien Pilote , Marc Daigle , Bernadette Payeur Racetime (La Course des tuques) Benoît Godbout , François Brisson , Marie-Claude Beauchamp
Year Film Filmmakers Ref 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards Matthias & Maxime Xavier Dolan , Nancy Grant [ 10] Antigone Sophie Deraspe , Marc Daigle A Brother's Love (La femme de mon frère) Monia Chokri , Sylvain Corbeil , Nancy Grant Genesis (Genèse) Philippe Lesage , Galilé Marion-Gauvin Ghost Town Anthology (Répertoire des villes disparues) Denis Côté , Ziad Touma Kuessipan Myriam Verreault , Félize Frappier 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards The Song of Names François Girard , Lyse Lafontaine , Robert Lantos , Viktória Petrányi , Nick Hirschkorn , Jeffrey Caine Goddess of the Fireflies (La déesse des mouches à feu) Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette , Luc Vandal , Catherine Léger My Salinger Year (Mon année à New York) Philippe Falardeau , Luc Déry , Kim McCraw , Ruth Coady , Susan Mullen Nadia, Butterfly Pascal Plante , Dominique Dussault Target Number One Daniel Roby , Valérie d’Auteuil , André Rouleau 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards Bootlegger Caroline Monnet , Catherine Chagnon , Daniel Watchorn Beans Tracey Deer , Anne-Marie Gélinas , Meredith Vuchnich Drunken Birds (Les oiseaux ivres) Ivan Grbovic , Luc Déry , Kim McCraw , Sara Mishara Felix and the Treasure of Morgäa (Félix et le trésor de Morgäa) Nicola Lemay , Nancy Florence Savard , Marc Robitaille Saint-Narcisse Bruce LaBruce , Nicolas Comeau , Paul Scherzer , Martin Girard 202325th Quebec Cinema Awards Falcon Lake Nancy Grant , Sylvain Corbeil , Dany Boon , Jalil Lespert , Julien Deris , David Gauquié , Jean-Luc Ormières , Charlotte Le Bon , Ariane Giroux-Dallaire [ 11] Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo (Dounia et la princesse d’Alep) Judith Beauregard , Marya Zarif , André Kadi , Chantale Pagé [ 12] Katak: The Brave Beluga (Katak, le brave béluga) Nancy Florence Savard , Christine Dallaire-Dupont , Nicola Lemay , Andrée Lambert , Xiaojuan Zhou , Chantale Pagé This House (Cette maison) Félix Dufour-Laperrière , Myriam Charles , Serge Abiaad Viking Luc Déry , Kim McCraw , Stéphane Lafleur , Éric K. Boulianne , Christian Larouche , Sébastien Létourneau 202426th Quebec Cinema Awards The Nature of Love (Simple comme Sylvain) Monia Chokri , Sylvain Corbeil , Nancy Grant , Elisha Karmitz , Nathanaël Karmitz [ 13] Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant) Jeanne-Marie Poulain , Line Sander Egede , Ariane Louis-Seize , Christine Doyon , Stéphanie Demers , Jean-Christophe J. Lamontagne [ 14] Manufacturing the Threat (Produire le menace) Amy Miller Red Rooms (Les Chambres rouges) Dominique Dussault , Pascal Plante , Stéphanie Demers , Jean-Christophe J. Lamontagne Richelieu Pier-Philippe Chevigny , Geneviève Gosselin-G.
Multiple wins and nominations [ edit ] ^ "Ajout d'une nomination aux prix Iris 2020" . Québec Cinéma , April 30, 2020. ^ a b "Quebec Cinema will rename Jutra awards; cities renaming streets" . CTV Montreal . 17 February 2016. ^ "Quebec film awards renamed Prix Iris after Claude Jutra sex scandal" . CBC News . 14 October 2016. ^ "Quebec Jutra awards finalists announced" . Screen Daily , January 24, 2002. ^ Odile Tremblay, "Maurice Richard et C.R.A.Z.Y. dominent la course aux Jutra" . Le Devoir , February 8, 2006. ^ Manon Dumais, "Jutra 2014: Le triomphe de Louis Cyr" . Voir , March 23, 2014. ^ Maxime Demers, "La passion d’Augustine triomphe" . Le Journal de Montréal , March 20, 2016. ^ André Duchesne, "Iris: Le problème d'infiltration et Hochelaga en tête des nominations" . La Presse , April 10, 2018. ^ "Gala Québec Cinéma : 1991 de Ricardo Trogi mène la course avec 16 nominations" . Radio-Canada (in French). April 11, 2019. Retrieved June 23, 2020 . ^ "Le film Antigone, grand gagnant du Gala Québec Cinéma avec six prix" (in French). Radio-Canada . June 10, 2020. Retrieved June 20, 2020 . ^ Florence Morin-Martel, "«Viking» triomphe au Gala Artisans Québec Cinéma" . Le Devoir , December 7, 2023. ^ "Québec Cinéma dévoile les finalistes aux PRIX IRIS 2023" . CTVM , November 14, 2023. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Gala Artisans 2024: les lauréats dévoilés" . Films du Québec , December 5, 2024. ^ "Vampire humaniste domine le Gala Québec Cinéma avec 22 nominations" . Ici Radio-Canada , October 8, 2024.
By year Awards Jutra Awards 1999-2015; Quebec Cinema Awards 2016; Prix Iris 2017-present.