Prix Iris for Best Director

Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Director (French: Prix Iris de la meilleure réalisation) to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.

Until 2016, it was known as the Jutra Award for Best Director in memory of influential Quebec film director Claude Jutra.^[1] Following the withdrawal of Jutra's name from the award, the 2016 award was presented under the name Québec Cinéma.^[1] The Prix Iris name was announced in October 2016.^[2]

Xavier Dolan received the most nominations, with six, while Denis Villeneuve received the most awards, with three. Villeneuve is the only director to win two consecutive awards, for Polytechnique in 2010 and Incendies 2011, while Dolan is the only director to receive two nominations in the same year, for Mommy and Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme) in 2015.

To date, nineteen women were nominated for a total of twenty-four nominations, with Léa Pool, Anne Émond, Sophie Dupuis and Monia Chokri receiving multiple nominations. The first to receive a nomination was Manon Briand at the first ceremony for 2 Seconds (2 secondes). Five women have won the award so far, the first being Lyne Charlebois in 2009 for Borderline.

1990s

Year	Director	Film	Ref
1999 1st Jutra Awards
	François Girard	The Red Violin (Le violon rouge)	[3]
	Manon Briand	2 Seconds (2 secondes)	[4]
	Robert Lepage	Nô
	Denis Villeneuve	August 32nd on Earth (Un 32 août sur terre)

2000s

Year	Director	Film	Ref
2000 2nd Jutra Awards
	Louis Bélanger	Post Mortem	[3]
	François Bouvier	Winter Stories (Histoires d'hiver)	[5]
	Jean-Philippe Duval	Matroni and Me (Matroni et moi)
	Léa Pool	Set Me Free (Emporte-moi)
2001 3rd Jutra Awards
	Denis Villeneuve	Maelström	[3]
	Philippe Falardeau	The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge (La moitié gauche du frigo)	[6]
	Robert Favreau	The Orphan Muses (Les muses orphelines)
	Michel Jetté	Hochelaga
2002 4th Jutra Awards
	André Turpin	Soft Shell Man (Un crabe dans la tête)	[3]
	Denis Chouinard	Tar Angel (L'ange de goudron)	[7]
	Pierre Falardeau	February 15, 1839 (15 février 1839)
	Catherine Martin	Marriages (Mariages)
2003 5th Jutra Awards
	Ricardo Trogi	Québec-Montréal	[3]
	Michael MacKenzie	The Baroness and the Pig	[8]
	Robert Morin	The Negro (Le nèg')
	Kim Nguyen	The Marsh (Le marais)
2004 6th Jutra Awards
	Denys Arcand	The Barbarian Invasions (Les invasions barbares)	[3]
	Louis Bélanger	Gaz Bar Blues	[9]
	Bernard Émond	8:17 p.m. Darling Street (20h17 rue Darling)
	Jean-François Pouliot	Seducing Doctor Lewis (La grande Séduction)
2005 7th Jutra Awards
	Francis Leclerc	Looking for Alexander (Mémoires affectives)	[3]
	Denise Filiatrault	Bittersweet Memories (Ma vie en cinémascope)	[10]
	Pierre Houle	Machine Gun Molly (Monica la mitraille)
	Yves Pelletier	Love and Magnets (Les aimants)
2006 8th Jutra Awards
	Jean-Marc Vallée	C.R.A.Z.Y.	[3]
	Charles Binamé	The Rocket (Maurice Richard)	[11]
	Bernard Émond	The Novena (La neuvaine)
	Ricardo Trogi	Dodging the Clock (Horloge biologique)
2007 9th Jutra Awards
	Philippe Falardeau	Congorama	[3]
	Érik Canuel	Bon Cop, Bad Cop	[12]
	Robert Favreau	A Sunday in Kigali (Un dimanche à Kigali)
	Claude Gagnon	Kamataki
2008 10th Jutra Awards
	Stéphane Lafleur	Continental, a Film Without Guns (Continental, un film sans fusil)	[3]
	Denys Arcand	Days of Darkness (L'âge des ténèbres)	[13]
	Fernand Dansereau	Twilight (La brunante)
	Bernard Émond	Summit Circle (Contre toute espérance)
2009 11th Jutra Awards
	Lyne Charlebois	Borderline	[3]
	Yves Christian Fournier	Everything Is Fine (Tout est parfait)	[14]
	Robert Morin	Daddy Goes Ptarmigan Hunting (Papa à la chasse aux lagopèdes)
	Benoît Pilon	The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre)

2010s

Year	Director	Film	Ref
2010 12th Jutra Awards
	Denis Villeneuve	Polytechnique	[3]
	Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu	Before Tomorrow (Le jour avant le lendemain)	[15]
	Xavier Dolan	I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère)
	Jean-Philippe Duval	Through the Mist (Dédé, à travers les brumes)
	Ricardo Trogi	1981
2011 13th Jutra Awards
	Denis Villeneuve	Incendies	[3]
	Denis Côté	Curling	[16]
	Xavier Dolan	Heartbeats (Les amours imaginaires)
	Daniel Grou	10½
	Kim Nguyen	City of Shadows (La cité)
2012 14th Jutra Awards
	Philippe Falardeau	Monsieur Lazhar	[3]
	Anne Émond	Nuit #1	[17]
	Micheline Lanctôt	For the Love of God (Pour l'amour de Dieu)
	Ken Scott	Starbuck
	Jean-Marc Vallée	Café de Flore
2013 15th Jutra Awards
	Kim Nguyen	War Witch (Rebelle)	[3]
	Xavier Dolan	Laurence Anyways	[18]
	Ivan Grbovic	Romeo Eleven (Roméo Onze)
	Daniel Grou	L'Affaire Dumont
	Rafaël Ouellet	Camion
2014 16th Jutra Awards
	Louise Archambault	Gabrielle	[3]
	Denis Côté	Vic and Flo Saw a Bear (Vic+Flo ont vu un ours)	[19]
	Robert Lepage and Pedro Pires	Triptych (Triptyque)
	Sébastien Pilote	The Dismantling (Le démantèlement)
	Daniel Roby	Louis Cyr (Louis Cyr: L'homme le plus fort du monde)
2015 17th Jutra Awards
	Xavier Dolan	Mommy	[3]
	Xavier Dolan	Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme)	[20]
	Stéphane Lafleur	You're Sleeping Nicole (Tu dors Nicole)
	Robert Morin	3 Indian Tales (3 histoires d'indiens)
	Denis Villeneuve	Enemy
2016 18th Quebec Cinema Awards
	Léa Pool	The Passion of Augustine (La aassion d'Augustine)	[21]
	Mathieu Denis	Corbo	[21]
	Anne Émond	Our Loved Ones (Les êtres chers)
	Maxime Giroux	Felix and Meira (Félix et Meira)
	Philippe Lesage	The Demons (Les démons)
2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards
	Xavier Dolan	It's Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde)	[22]
	Louis Bélanger	Bad Seeds (Les mauvaises herbes)	[23]
	Bachir Bensaddek	Montreal, White City (Montréal la blanche)
	Chloé Leriche	Before the Streets (Avant les rues)
	Kim Nguyen	Two Lovers and a Bear
2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards
	Robin Aubert	Ravenous (Les affamés)	[24]
	Darren Curtis	Boost	[25]
	Sophie Dupuis	Family First (Chien de garde)
	Robert Morin	Infiltration (Le problème d'infiltration)
	Luc Picard	Cross My Heart (Les rois mongols)
2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards
	Ricardo Trogi	1991	[26]
	Denis Côté	Ghost Town Anthology (Répertoire des villes disparues)	[27]
	Geneviève Dulude-De Celles	A Colony (Une colonie)
	Maxime Giroux	The Great Darkened Days (La grande noirceur)
	Yan Giroux	For Those Who Don't Read Me (À tous ceux qui ne me lisent pas)

2020s

Year	Director	Film	Ref
2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards
	Sophie Deraspe	Antigone	[28]
	Monia Chokri	A Brother's Love (La femme de mon frère)	[29]
	Guillaume de Fontenay	Sympathy for the Devil (Sympathie pour le diable)
	Matthew Rankin	The Twentieth Century
	Myriam Verreault	Kuessipan
2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards
	Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette	Goddess of the Fireflies (La déesse des mouches à feu)	[30]
	Sophie Dupuis	Underground (Souterrain)	[31]
	Philippe Falardeau	My Salinger Year
	Benoît Pilon	The Vinland Club (Le club Vinland)
	Daniel Roby	Target Number One
2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards
	Ivan Grbovic	Drunken Birds (Les oiseaux ivres)	[32]
	Tracey Deer	Beans	[33]
	Maxime Giroux	Norbourg
	Kaveh Nabatian	Without Havana (Sin la Habana)
	Sébastien Pilote	Maria Chapdelaine
2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards
	Stéphane Lafleur	Viking	[34]
	Monia Chokri	Babysitter	[35]
	Francis Leclerc	The Dishwasher (Le plongeur)
	Rafaël Ouellet	Family Game (Arseneault et fils)
	Pascal Plante	Red Rooms (Les chambres rouges)
2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards
	Monia Chokri	The Nature of Love (Simple comme Sylvain)	[36]
	Pier-Philippe Chevigny	Richelieu	[37]
	Sophie Dupuis	Solo
	Ariane Louis-Seize	Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant)
	Ricardo Trogi	1995

Multiple wins and nominations

Multiple wins Wins Director 3 Denis Villeneuve 2 Xavier Dolan Philippe Falardeau Stéphane Lafleur Ricardo Trogi

Three or more nominations Nominations Director 6 Xavier Dolan 5 Ricardo Trogi Denis Villeneuve 4 Philippe Falardeau Robert Morin Kim Nguyen 3 Louis Bélanger Monia Chokri Denis Côté Sophie Dupuis Bernard Émond Maxime Giroux Stéphane Lafleur

See also

• Canadian Screen Award for Best Director

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