18th Quebec Cinema Awards

{{Short description|2016 Canadian film awards ceremony}} {{Use Canadian English|date=April 2026}} The '''18th [[Prix Iris|Quebec Cinema Awards]]''' ceremony ({{langx |fr|Gala du cinéma québécois 2016}}<ref>{{cite web |language=fr |url=http://www.lapresse.ca/cinema/ceremonies/gala-du-cinema-quebecois/201603/18/01-4962061-gala-du-cinema-quebecois-que-le-spectacle-continue.php |title=Gala du cinéma québécois: que le spectacle continue! |publisher=La Presse |date=18 March 2016 |accessdate=20 March 2016 |author=Marc-André Lussier}}</ref>) were held on March 20, 2016 to honour films made with the participation of the [[Cinema of Quebec|Quebec film industry]] in 2015.<ref name=gazette>[https://montrealgazette.com/storyline/la-passion-daugustine-and-corbo-lead-the-jutra-film-nominations "La Passion d'Augustine and Corbo lead the Jutra film nominations"]. ''[[Montreal Gazette]]'', January 26, 2016.</ref><ref name=LaPresse20160321>{{cite web |url=http://www.lapresse.ca/cinema/ceremonies/gala-du-cinema-quebecois/201603/20/01-4962770-le-sacre-de-la-passion-daugustine.php |title=Le sacre de ''La passion d'Augustine'' |author=Marc-André Lussier |date=21 March 2016 |accessdate=21 March 2016 |website=La Presse}}</ref>

The ceremony was the first to be held since [[Québec Cinéma]] dropped the "Jutra Awards" name from its awards program, following the publication in February 2016 of allegations that namesake director [[Claude Jutra]] had been a pedophile.<ref name=identity>{{cite web |url=https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/beyond-jutra-gala-du-cinema-quebecois-is-suffering-from-an-identity-crisis |title=Beyond Jutra: Gala du cinéma québécois is suffering from an identity crisis |newspaper=Montreal Gazette |author=Brendan Kelly |date=18 March 2016}}</ref> The organization established a committee to determine a new permanent name for the awards, which announced the new [[Prix Iris]] name in October 2016.

Winners at the 2016 ceremony received a new wooden statue, replacing the previous trophy created by [[Charles Daudelin]]. The new trophy was created by Montreal's Nouveau Studio; it is made of solid maple, painted white, with gold and acrylic leaves. With only three weeks to design and produce the new statue following the renaming of the award, it would not have been possible to cast the trophies out of bronze.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/arts_et_spectacles/2016/03/18/002-nouveau-trophee-cinema-quebecois-erable.shtml |language=fr |title=Voici le nouveau trophée du cinéma québécois |date=18 March 2016 |accessdate=20 March 2016 |website=ICI.Radio-Canada.ca}}</ref>

''[[The Passion of Augustine]] (La passion d'Augustine)'' won six awards from eleven nominations, including [[Prix Iris for Best Film|Best Film]], the first film directed by a woman to win the award, [[Prix Iris for Best Director|Best Director]] and [[Prix Iris for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] for Diane Lavallée.<ref name=WinnerRelease>{{cite press release |url=http://quebeccinema.ca/uploads/document/qccinema_cmq_gala2016_gagnants_vfinale_2.pdf |title=Les lauréats du Gala du cinéma québécois 2016 |publisher=Québec Cinéma |date=20 March 2016 |accessdate=21 March 2016 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> [[Céline Bonnier]] received her tenth acting nomination and won her second [[Prix Iris for Best Actress|Best Actress]] award, having previously won for ''[[Deliver Me (film)|Deliver Me]] (Délivrez-moi)''.

''[[Corbo]]'', ''[[Elephant Song (film)|Elephant Song]]'' and ''[[Our Loved Ones]] (Les êtres chers)'' were nominated for ten, nine and seven awards respectively, but lost all of their nominations. Additionally, ''[[Elephant Song (film)|Elephant Song]]'' tied the record for the film with the most nominations without being nominated for [[Prix Iris for Best Film|Best Film]], joining ''[[Babine (film)|Babine]]'' and ''[[The Master Key (2009 film)|The Master Key]] (Grande Ourse: la clé des possibles)''.

With only two nominations, [[Philippe Lesage]]'s ''[[The Demons (2015 film)|The Demons]] (Les démons)'' became the [[Prix Iris for Best Film|Best Film]] nominee with the least nominations. For his rôle in ''[[Paul à Québec]]'', [[Gilbert Sicotte]] won his second [[Prix Iris for Best Actor|Best Actor]] award.

''[[My Internship in Canada]] (Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre)'' won three awards from four nominations, including [[Prix Iris for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]] for [[Irdens Exantus]]. ''[[Felix and Meira]] (Félix et Meira)'' won two awards from six nominations, including [[Prix Iris for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]], while ''[[Brooklyn (film)|Brooklyn]]'' won the two awards it was nominated for. ''[[Snowtime!]] (La guerre des tuques 3D)'' won one competitive award and the [[Prix Iris Public Prize|Billet d'or]], becoming the first animated feature film to win an award.

==Winners and nominees== {| class=wikitable width="100%" |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Prix Iris for Best Film|Best Film]] ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Prix Iris for Best Director|Best Director]] |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''''[[The Passion of Augustine]] (La passion d'Augustine)'' — [[Lyse Lafontaine]], François Tremblay''' *''[[Corbo]]'' — [[Félize Frappier]] *''[[The Demons (2015 film)|The Demons]] (Les démons)'' — [[Galilé Marion-Gauvin]], [[Philippe Lesage]] *''[[Felix and Meira]] (Félix et Meira)'' — [[Sylvain Corbeil]], [[Nancy Grant]], [[Maxime Giroux]] *''[[Our Loved Ones]] (Les êtres chers)'' — [[Sylvain Corbeil]], [[Nancy Grant]] | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Léa Pool]], ''[[The Passion of Augustine]] (La passion d'Augustine)''''' *[[Mathieu Denis]], ''[[Corbo]]'' *[[Anne Émond]], ''[[Our Loved Ones]] (Les êtres chers)'' *[[Maxime Giroux]], ''[[Felix and Meira]] (Félix et Meira)'' *[[Philippe Lesage]], ''[[The Demons (2015 film)|The Demons]] (Les démons)'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Prix Iris for Best Actor|Best Actor]] ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Prix Iris for Best Actress|Best Actress]] |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Gilbert Sicotte]], ''[[Paul à Québec]]''''' *[[Xavier Dolan]], ''[[Elephant Song (film)|Elephant Song]]'' *[[Maxim Gaudette]], ''[[Our Loved Ones]] (Les êtres chers)'' *[[Alexandre Landry]], ''[[Love in the Time of Civil War]] (L'amour au temps de la guerre civile)'' *[[Paul Savoie]], ''[[The Diary of an Old Man]]'' (''Le journal d'un vieil homme'') | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Céline Bonnier]], ''[[The Passion of Augustine]] (La passion d'Augustine)''''' *[[Laurence Leboeuf]], ''[[Turbo Kid]]'' *[[Fanny Mallette]], ''[[Chorus (2015 film)|Chorus]]'' *[[Anna Mouglalis]], ''[[Anna (2015 Canadian film)|Anna]]'' *[[Hadas Yaron]], ''[[Felix and Meira]] (Félix et Meira)'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Prix Iris for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]] ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Prix Iris for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Irdens Exantus]], ''[[My Internship in Canada]] (Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre)''''' *[[Salim Kechiouche]], ''[[Noir (film)|Noir]]'' *[[Jean-Simon Leduc]], ''[[Love in the Time of Civil War]] (L'amour au temps de la guerre civile)'' *[[Tony Nardi]], ''[[Corbo]]'' *[[Luzer Twersky]], ''[[Felix and Meira]] (Félix et Meira)'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Diane Lavallée]], ''[[The Passion of Augustine]] (La passion d'Augustine)''''' *[[Christine Beaulieu]], ''[[The Mirage (2015 film)|The Mirage]] (Le mirage)'' *[[Schelby Jean-Baptiste]], ''[[Scratch (2015 film)|Scratch]]'' *[[Catherine-Audrey Lachapelle]], ''[[Love in the Time of Civil War]] (L'amour au temps de la guerre civile)'' *[[Lysandre Ménard]], ''[[The Passion of Augustine]] (La passion d'Augustine)'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Prix Iris for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]] ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Prix Iris for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]] |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Alexandre Laferrière]] and [[Maxime Giroux]], ''[[Felix and Meira]] (Félix et Meira)''''' *[[Mathieu Denis]], ''[[Corbo]]'' *[[Anne Émond]], ''[[Our Loved Ones]] (Les êtres chers)'' *[[Céleste Parr]], ''[[Gurov and Anna]]'' *[[Marie Vien]] and [[Léa Pool]], ''[[The Passion of Augustine]] (La passion d'Augustine)'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Yves Bélanger (cinematographer)|Yves Bélanger]], ''[[Brooklyn (film)|Brooklyn]]''''' *[[Steve Asselin]], ''[[Corbo]]'' *[[Serge Desrosiers]], ''[[Ville-Marie (film)|Ville-Marie]]'' *[[Pierre Gill]], ''[[Elephant Song (film)|Elephant Song]]'' *[[Daniel Jobin]], ''[[The Passion of Augustine]] (La passion d'Augustine)'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Prix Iris for Best Art Direction|Best Art Direction]] ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Prix Iris for Best Sound|Best Sound]] |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[François Séguin]], ''[[Brooklyn (film)|Brooklyn]]''''' *[[Philippe Arseneau Bussières]], ''[[Snowtime!]] (La guerre des tuques 3D)'' *[[Éric Barbeau]], ''[[Corbo]]'' *[[Éric Barbeau]], ''[[Our Loved Ones]] (Les êtres chers)'' *[[Patrice Bengle]], ''[[The Passion of Augustine]] (La passion d'Augustine)'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Raymond Vermette]], [[Christian Rivest]], Stéphane Bergeron, Julie Dufour and [[Guy Pelletier]], ''[[Snowtime!]] (La guerre des tuques 3D)''''' *[[Claude La Haye]], [[Patrice Leblanc]] and [[Bernard Gariépy Strobl]], ''[[Corbo]]'' *François Grenon, [[Sylvain Bellemare]] and [[Luc Boudrias]], ''[[The Sound of Trees (film)|The Sound of Trees]] (Le bruit des arbres)'' *[[Claude La Haye]], [[Claude Beaugrand]], [[Luc Boudrias]] and [[Patrick Lalonde]], ''[[Elephant Song (film)|Elephant Song]]'' *[[Claude La Haye]], [[Sylvain Bellemare]] and [[Bernard Gariépy Strobl]], ''[[My Internship in Canada]] (Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre)'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Prix Iris for Best Editing|Best Editing]] ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Prix Iris for Best Original Music|Best Original Music]] |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Richard Comeau]], ''[[My Internship in Canada]] (Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre)''''' *[[Mathieu Bouchard-Malo]], ''[[Our Loved Ones]] (Les êtres chers)'' *[[François Delisle]], ''[[Chorus (2015 film)|Chorus]]'' *[[Dominique Fortin]], ''[[Elephant Song (film)|Elephant Song]]'' *[[Hubert Hayaud]], ''[[Scratch (2015 film)|Scratch]]'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Martin Léon]], ''[[My Internship in Canada]] (Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre)''''' *[[Jean-Philippe Bernier]] and [[Jean-Nicolas Leupi]], ''[[Turbo Kid]]'' *[[Michel Corriveau]], ''[[Anna (2015 Canadian film)|Anna]]'' *[[Gaëtan Gravel]] and [[Patrice Dubuc]], ''[[Elephant Song (film)|Elephant Song]]'' *[[Jenny Salgado]], [[André Courcy]] and [[Luc St-Pierre]], ''[[Scratch (2015 film)|Scratch]]'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Prix Iris for Best Costume Design|Best Costume Design]] ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Prix Iris for Best Makeup|Best Makeup]] |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Michèle Hamel]], ''[[The Passion of Augustine]] (La passion d'Augustine)''''' *[[Judy Jonker]], ''[[Corbo]]'' *[[Mario Davignon]], ''[[After the Ball (2015 film)|After the Ball]]'' *[[Ginette Magny]], ''[[Elephant Song (film)|Elephant Song]]'' *[[Éric Poirier]], ''[[Turbo Kid]]'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Olivier Xavier]], ''[[Turbo Kid]]''''' *[[Lizane Lasalle]], ''[[Corbo]]'' *[[Catherine Beaudoin]], ''[[Anna (2015 Canadian film)|Anna]]'' *[[Nicole Lapierre]], ''[[Elephant Song (film)|Elephant Song]]'' *[[Joan-Patricia Parris]] and [[Mario Soucy]], ''[[Death Dive]] (Le scaphandrier)'' |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Prix Iris for Best Hair|Best Hairstyling]] ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Prix Iris for Best Documentary Film|Best Documentary]] |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Martin Lapointe (hairstylist)|Martin Lapointe]], ''[[The Passion of Augustine]] (La passion d'Augustine)''''' *[[Réjean Goderre]], ''[[Elephant Song (film)|Elephant Song]]'' *[[Martin Lapointe (hairstylist)|Martin Lapointe]], ''[[Corbo]]'' *[[Martin Lapointe (hairstylist)|Martin Lapointe]], ''[[Our Loved Ones]] (Les êtres chers)'' *[[Martin Lapointe (hairstylist)|Martin Lapointe]], ''[[Ville-Marie (film)|Ville-Marie]]'' | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''''[[Uyghurs: Prisoners of the Absurd]] (Ouïghours, prisonniers de l'absurde)'' — [[Patricio Henríquez]]''' *''[[The Amina Profile]] (Le profil Amina)'' — [[Sophie Deraspe]] *''[[Footprints (2015 film)|Footprints]] (L'Empreinte)'' — [[Yvan Dubuc]], [[Carole Poliquin]] *''[[L'Or du golfe]]'' — [[Ian Jaquier]] *''[[The Price We Pay (2014 film)|The Price We Pay]] (Le prix à payer)'' — [[Harold Crooks]] |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Prix Iris for Best Live Action Short Film|Best Live Short]] ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Prix Iris for Best Animated Short Film|Best Animated Short]] |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''''[[Maurice (2015 film)|Maurice]]'' — [[François Jaros]]''' *''[[Blue Thunder (2015 film)|Blue Thunder]] (Bleu tonnerre)'' — [[Jean-Marc E. Roy]], [[Philippe David Gagné]] *''[[Le cycle des moteurs]]'' — [[Patrice Laliberté]] *''[[The Pedophile]] (Le pédophile)'' — [[Ara Ball]] *''[[Star (2015 film)|Star]]'' — [[Émilie Mannering]] | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''''[[Carface]] (Autos portraits)'' — [[Claude Cloutier]]''' *''[[All the Rage (2015 film)|All the Rage]]'' — [[Alexandra Lemay]] *''[[My Heart Attack]]'' — [[Sheldon Cohen (artist)|Sheldon Cohen]] *''[[The Sleepwalker (2015 film)|The Sleepwalker]] (Sonámbulo)'' — [[Theodore Ushev]] *''[[Squame (film)|Squame]]'' — [[Nicolas Brault]] |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Prix Iris for Most Successful Film Outside Quebec|Most Successful Film Outside Quebec]] ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | [[Prix Iris Public Prize|Billet d'or]] |- | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''''[[Felix and Meira]] (Félix et Meira)'' — [[Maxime Giroux]]''' *''[[Chorus (2015 film)|Chorus]]'' — [[François Delisle]] *''[[Elephant Song (film)|Elephant Song]]'' — [[Charles Binamé]] *''[[The Passion of Augustine]] (La passion d'Augustine)'' — [[Léa Pool]] *''[[Turbo Kid]]'' — [[François Simard]], [[Anouk Whissell]], [[Yoann-Karl Whissell]] | valign="top" | *{{blue ribbon}} '''''[[Snowtime!]] (La guerre des tuques 3D)''''' |}

==Multiple wins and nominations==

===Films with multiple nominations=== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" ! scope="col" width="17" | Nominations ! scope="col" align="center" | Film |- |rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 11 | ''[[The Passion of Augustine]] (La passion d'Augustine)'' |- |rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 10 | ''[[Corbo]]'' |- |rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 9 | ''[[Elephant Song (film)|Elephant Song]]'' |- |rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 7 | ''[[Our Loved Ones]] (Les êtres chers)'' |- |rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 6 | ''[[Felix and Meira]] (Félix et Meira)'' |- |rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 5 | ''[[Turbo Kid]]'' |- |rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 4 | ''[[My Internship in Canada]] (Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre)'' |- |rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;" | 3 | ''[[Anna (2015 Canadian film)|Anna]]'' |- | ''[[Chorus (2015 film)|Chorus]]'' |- | ''[[Love in the Time of Civil War]] (L'amour au temps de la guerre civile)'' |- | ''[[Scratch (2015 film)|Scratch]]'' |- |rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;" | 2 | ''[[Brooklyn (film)|Brooklyn]]'' |- | ''[[The Demons (2015 film)|The Demons]] (Les démons)'' |- | ''[[Snowtime!]] (La guerre des tuques 3D)'' |- | ''[[Ville-Marie (film)|Ville-Marie]]'' |- |}

=== Films with multiple wins === {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" ! scope="col" width="17" | Wins ! scope="col" align="center" | Film |- |rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 6 | ''[[The Passion of Augustine]] (La passion d'Augustine)'' |- |rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 3 | ''[[My Internship in Canada]] (Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre)'' |- |rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" | 2 | ''[[Brooklyn (film)|Brooklyn]]'' |- | ''[[Felix and Meira]] (Félix et Meira)'' |- | ''[[Snowtime!]] (La guerre des tuques 3D)'' |- |}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{official website|http://gala.quebeccinema.ca}}