The 26th Quebec Cinema Awards was held on December 8, 2024, to honour achievements in the Cinema of Quebec in 2023 and 2024. [1] The ceremony was broadcast by Noovo, and hosted by Phil Roy. [2]
The artisans gala, presenting the craft awards not included in the broadcast ceremony, was held on December 4 and hosted by Mona de Grenoble. [3]
Ariane Louis-Seize's Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant) received a record breaking twenty-two nominations. It became the first film to receive seven acting nominations, the first to receive nominations in all five acting categories and the third film to receive three acting nominations in a single category, namely Best Supporting Actress. It received nominations in all eligible categories except Prix Michel-Côté which is determined by box-office results. [1] Despite winning a leading eight awards during the ceremony, including Best Film and Best Screenplay, it failed to win any of its acting nominations.
The Nature of Love (Simple comme Sylvain) received fourteen nominations and won three awards, including Best Director. 1995 received eleven nominations, including Jean-Carl Boucher's and Sandrine Bisson's fourth nomination for playing the same character, following their nominations for 1981 , 1987 and 1991 . Sandrine Bisson became the first actress to win Best Supporting Actress thrice.
Richelieu received ten nominations and won three acting awards: Best Supporting Actor for Marc-André Grondin while Ariane Castellanos won both Revelation of the Year and Best Actress. She became the second person to win two acting awards during the same ceremony, following Hélène Florent's two awards during the 2022 ceremony. Solo also received ten nominations and won three awards, including Best Actor for Théodore Pellerin, who became the first actor to win in the Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Revelation of the Year categories. Coincidentally, all his winning performances were directed by Sophie Dupuis.
For his performances in both Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person and The Nature of Love, Steve Laplante became the first actor to receive two nominations in the same acting category, namely Best Supporting Actor. For his performances in both The Successor (Le successeur) and Richelieu , Marc-André Grondin became the ninth performer and sixth actor to receive nominations for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor during the same ceremony.
For the first time since the Revelation of the Year category was introduced, two actors — Félix-Antoine Bénard in Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person and Ariane Castellanos in Richelieu — received dual nominations for both that category and the lead acting categories. Castellanos also received a Best Casting nomination for Richelieu, making her the first person to receive nominations for both acting and casting in the same movie.
Sound mixer Luc Boudrias became only the third person, following haistylist Martin Lapointe and producer Marc Bertrand, to receive four nominations in a single category, namely Best Sound. Marie-Claude Lafontaine became the first person to win four consecutive awards, all in the Best Visual Effects category.
Films with multiple nominations
Films with multiple wins
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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.
Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Actress to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.
Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Actor to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.
Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Supporting Actor to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.
Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Supporting Actress to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.
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Ariane Louis-Seize is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec.
The 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards were presented on 10 June 2020, to recognize talent and achievement in the cinema of Quebec. The planned 7 June ceremony was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but nominees were announced 23 April. Abenaki documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin was also selected as the recipient of the Iris Tribute at the unanimous recommendation of Québec Cinéma's Comité de représentation professionnelle.
Micheline Bernard is a Canadian actress. She is most noted for her performances in the films Small Blind , for which she received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Actress at the 15th Jutra Awards in 2013, and Matthias & Maxime, for which she won the Prix Iris for Best Supporting Actress at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2020.
The Prix Iris for Revelation of the Year is an annual award, presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris program, to honour the best performances by emerging actors in their first major film roles. The award is not separated by gender.
The Prix Iris for Best First Film is an annual film award, presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris awards program, to honour the year's best debut film made within the Cinema of Quebec.
The Prix Iris for Best Casting is an annual film award, presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris awards program, to honour the year's best casting in films made within the Cinema of Quebec.
The 24th Quebec Cinema Awards were held on June 5, 2022, to honour achievements in the Cinema of Quebec in 2021. The ceremony was hosted by actress Geneviève Schmidt.
Sara Montpetit is a French Canadian actress and environmental activist from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the 2021 film Maria Chapdelaine, for which she won the Prix Iris for Revelation of the Year at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards.
Richelieu, also released as Temporaries in some territories, is a Canadian drama film, directed by Pier-Philippe Chevigny and released in 2023. The film stars Ariane Castellanos as Ariane, a woman who is hired as a Spanish-French translator at a food processing plant in Quebec that has a large staff of temporary migrant workers from Guatemala, but becomes an ally and advocate for the workers as she realizes the need to defend them from abuse and exploitation by owner Stéphane.
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, also released as Humanist Vampire Too Sensitive to Kill, is a 2023 French-language Canadian vampire comedy horror film co-written and directed by Ariane Louis-Seize. It stars Sara Montpetit as Sasha, a teenage vampire who befriends Paul, a boy with suicidal tendencies.
Ariane Castellanos is a Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the film Richelieu, for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Lead Performance in a Drama Film at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards, and won the Prix Iris for both Best Actress and Revelation of the Year at the 26th Quebec Cinema Awards. Alongside Félix-Antoine Bénard, she was one of the first two actors in the history of the Prix Iris to receive dual nominations, in both Revelation and one of the lead acting categories, for the same performance.
Line Sander Egede is a Danish-Canadian film producer, associated with the Montreal-based film studio Art & Essai. She is most noted as a producer of Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person , which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Picture at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards in 2024.
Félix-Antoine Bénard is a Canadian actor from Quebec, most noted for his performance as Paul in the 2023 film Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person . He received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Lead Performance in a Comedy Film at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards, and Prix Iris nominations for Best Actor and Revelation of the Year at the 26th Quebec Cinema Awards. Alongside Ariane Castellanos, he was one of the first two actors in the history of the Prix Iris to receive dual nominations, in both Revelation and one of the lead acting categories, for the same performance.
Christine Doyon is a Canadian screenwriter from Quebec. With Ariane Louis-Seize, Doyon co-wrote the award-winning film Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person .
