27th Quebec Cinema Awards

The 27th Quebec Cinema Awards will be held on December 7, 2025, to honour achievements in the Cinema of Quebec in 2024 and 2025. ^[1] The ceremony will be broadcast by Noovo, and hosted by Phil Roy for a second year in a row. The artisans gala, presenting the craft awards not included in the broadcast ceremony, will be held on December 4 and hosted by Mona de Grenoble, also for the second year in a row. ^[2]

Overview of nominations

Matthew Rankin's Universal Language received the most nominations with seventeen. Two Woman (Deux femmes en or) and Peak Everything (Amour Apocalypse) each received fifteen nominations, followed by Shepherds (Bergers) with thirteen nominations. ^[3]

For the second year in a row, three women were nominated for Best Director. Actress Marguerite Laurence became the third person to receive dual acting nominations for the same performance, earning nods in the Best Actress and Revelation of the Year for her performance in Miss Boots (Mlle Bottine).

Sound mixer Bernard Gariépy Strobl received his 31st and 32nd nominations overall, surpassing Xavier Dolan to become the most nominated individual in the history of the Prix Iris, formerly known as the Prix Jutra.

A new category was introduced for this ceremony. Modeled after the Most Successful Film Outside Quebec award, the award for Most Successful Short Film Outside Quebec rewards the short film that shined the most on the international stage.

Filmmaker Léa Pool was named as the recipient of the Tribute Award on October 27, 2025. ^[4]

Nominees and winners

Best Film	Best Director
Blue Sky Jo (La petite et le vieux) — Sonia Despars, Marc Biron Miss Boots (Mlle Bottine) — Antonello Cozzolino, Brigitte Léveillé, Dominic James Peak Everything (Amour apocalypse) — Sylvain Corbeil Shepherds (Bergers) — Luc Déry, Kim McCraw, Élaine Hébert, Caroline Bonmarchand, Xenia Sulyma Two Women (Deux femmes en or) — Martin Paul-Hus, Catherine Léger Universal Language (Une langue universelle) — Sylvain Corbeil Who by Fire (Comme le feu) — Galilé Marion-Gauvin, Thomas Ordonneau	Sophie Deraspe, Shepherds (Bergers) Anne Émond, Peak Everything (Amour apocalypse) Philippe Lesage, Who by Fire (Comme le feu) Matthew Rankin, Universal Language (Une langue universelle) Chloé Robichaud, Two Women (Deux femmes en or)
Best Actor	Best Actress
Paul Ahmarani, Who by Fire (Comme le feu) Antoine Bertrand, Miss Boots (Mlle Bottine) Félix-Antoine Duval, Shepherds (Bergers) Patrick Hivon, Peak Everything (Amour apocalypse) Gildor Roy, Blue Sky Jo (La petite et le vieux)	Leïla Bekhti, Once Upon My Mother (Ma mère, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan) Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Compulsive Liar 2 (Menteuse) Karine Gonthier-Hyndman, Two Women (Deux femmes en or) Marguerite Laurence, Miss Boots (Mlle Bottine) Laurence Leboeuf, Two Women (Deux femmes en or)
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Alexis Martin, Vile & Miserable (Vil & Misérable) Vincent-Guillaume Otis, Blue Sky Jo (La petite et le vieux) François Papineau, You Are Not Alone (Vous n'êtes pas seuls) Gilles Renaud, Peak Everything (Amour apocalypse) Mani Soleymanlou, Universal Language (Une langue universelle)	Catherine Chabot, Compulsive Liar 2 (Menteuse) Sophie Desmarais, Who by Fire (Comme le feu) Danielle Fichaud, Universal Language (Une langue universelle) Chantal Fontaine, Vile & Miserable (Vil & Misérable) Juliette Gariépy, Two Women (Deux femmes en or)
Revelation of the Year	Best Screenplay
Aurélia Arandi-Longpré, Who by Fire (Comme le feu) Juliette Bharucha, Blue Sky Jo (La petite et le vieux) Marguerite Laurence, Miss Boots (Mlle Bottine) Aksel Leblanc, Phoenixes (Phénix) Pirouz Nemati, Universal Language (Une langue universelle)	Sophie Deraspe and Mathyas Lefebure, Shepherds (Bergers) Anne Émond, Peak Everything (Amour apocalypse) Catherine Léger, Two Women (Deux femmes en or) Philippe Lesage, Who by Fire (Comme le feu) Matthew Rankin, Ila Firouzabadi and Pirouz Nemati, Universal Language (Une langue universelle)
Best Documentary	Best Short Documentary
Among Mountains and Streams (Parmi les montagnes et les ruisseaux) — Jean-François Lesage The Battle of Saint-Léonard (La bataille de Saint-Léonard) — Félix Rose, Karine Dubois I Shall Not Hate — Tal Barda, Geoff Klein, Saskia de Boer, Maryse Rouillard, Paul Cadieux, Isabelle Gripon Intercepted — Oksana Karpovych, Rocío Barba Fuentes, Giacomo Nudi, Pauline Tran Van Lieu, Lucie Rego, Darya Bassel, Olha Beskhmelnytsina Simon and Marianne (Simon et Marianne) — Pier-Luc Latulippe, Martin Fournier	After the Silence (Après le silence) — Matilde-Luna Perotti Like a Spiral (Comme une spirale) — Lamia Chraibi, Patricia Bergeron, Ghassan Fayad The Punk of Natashquan (Le Punk de Natashquan) — Nicolas Lachapelle, Élodie Pollet My Memory-Walls (Mes mûrs-mémoire) — Axel Robin Who Loves the Sun — Arshia Shakiba, Zaynê Akyol
Best Live Action Short Film	Best Animated Short Film
Fantas — Halima Elkhatabi Gender Reveal — Mo Matton, Léonie Hurtubise Mercenaire — Pier-Philippe Chevigny, Geneviève Gosselin-G. Platanero — Juan Frank Hernandez, Vincent Labelle, Laurence Ly, Béatrice Moukhaiber Rituals Under a Scarlet Sky (Rituels sous un ciel écarlate) — Dominique Chila, Samer Najari, Galilé Marion-Gauvin	Ibuka, Justice — Justice Rutikara, Mylène Augustin The Little Ancestor (Le Petit ancêtre) — Alexa Tremblay-Francœur, Stéphanie Gagné Maybe Elephants — Torill Kove, Lise Fearnley, Tonje Skar Reiersen, Maral Mohammadian Out for Ice Cream (Crème à glace) — Rachel Samson, Raquel Sancinetti, Félix Dufour-Laperrière The Painting (Le Tableau) — Michèle Lemieux, Christine Noël, Julie Roy
Best Art Direction	Best Costume Design
André-Line Beauparlant, Shepherds (Bergers) Ludovic Dufresne, Vile & Miserable (Vil & Misérable) Sylvain Lemaitre, Peak Everything (Amour apocalypse) Louisa Schabas, Two Women (Deux femmes en or) Louisa Schabas, Universal Language (Une langue universelle)	Gabrielle Lauzier, Vile & Miserable (Vil & Misérable) Patricia McNeil, Peak Everything (Amour apocalypse) Patricia McNeil, Two Women (Deux femmes en or) Negar Nemati, Universal Language (Une langue universelle) Sharon Scott, Miss Boots (Mlle Bottine)
Best Cinematography	Best Cinematography in a Documentary
Vincent Gonneville, Shepherds (Bergers) Olivier Gossot, Peak Everything (Amour apocalypse) Mathieu Laverdière, The Last Meal (Le Dernier repas) Sara Mishara, Two Women (Deux femmes en or) Isabelle Stachtchenko, Universal Language (Une langue universelle)	Hanna Abu Saada, I Shall Not Hate Glauco Bermudez and Étienne Roussy, Ghosts of the Sea (Les enfants du large) Sébastien Blais, Okurimono Christian Mathieu Fournier, Waiting for Casimir (En attendant Casimir) Étienne Roussy, Among Mountains and Streams (Parmi les montagnes et les ruisseaux)
Best Editing	Best Editing in a Documentary
Matthieu Bouchard and Chloé Robichaud, Two Women (Deux femmes en or) Xi Feng, Universal Language (Une langue universelle) Amélie Labrèche, You Are Not Alone (Vous n'êtes pas seuls) Stéphane Lafleur, Shepherds (Bergers) Anita Roth, Peak Everything (Amour apocalypse)	Heidi Haines, At All Kosts (Koutkékout) Josiane Lapointe, Alexandre Leblanc and Lawrence Côté-Collins, Billy Catherine Legault, Larry (They/Them) (Larry (iel)) Michel Giroux, The Battle of Saint-Léonard (La bataille de Saint-Léonard) Charlotte Tourrès, Intercepted
Best Original Music	Best Original Music in a Documentary
Amir Amiri and Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux, Universal Language (Une langue universelle) Viviane Audet, Robin-Joël Cool and Alexis Martin, Blue Sky Jo (La petite et le vieux) Philippe Brault, Shepherds (Bergers) Philippe Brault, Two Women (Deux femmes en or) Pierre-Philippe Côté, You Are Not Alone (Vous n'êtes pas seuls) Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux, Peak Everything (Amour apocalypse)	Wilhelm Brandl, Okurimono Marc Gravel, The Battle of Saint-Léonard (La bataille de Saint-Léonard) Martin Lizotte, Waiting for Casimir (En attendant Casimir) Benoit Pinette and Marc-André Landry, Simon and Marianne (Simon et Marianne) Martin Roy and Luc Sicard, Billy
Best Sound	Best Sound in a Documentary
Jean-Sébastien Beaudoin-Gagnon, Simon Gervais and Bernard Gariépy Strobl, Vile & Miserable (Vil & Misérable) Sylvain Bellemare, Stephen De Oliveira and Luc Boudrias, Two Women (Deux femmes en or) Sylvain Brassard and Stephen De Oliveira, Peak Everything (Amour apocalypse) Olivier Calvert, Stephen De Oliveira and Hans Laitres, Shepherds (Bergers) Pablo Villegas, Sacha Ratcliffe and Bernard Gariépy Strobl, Universal Language (Une langue universelle)	Olivier Calvert, Pier-Luc Latulippe and Bruno Bélanger, Simon and Marianne (Simon et Marianne) Benoît Dame, Vuk Stojanović, Alexandre Leblanc, Mathieu Lacourse and Martin M. Messier, Billy Camille Demers-Lambert, Marie-Pierre Grenier and Olivier Germain, Okurimono Simon Gervais, Laurence Turcotte-Fraser and Nicolas Dallaire, The Battle of Saint-Léonard (La bataille de Saint-Léonard) Alex Lane and Artem Kosynskyi, Intercepted
Best Hairstyling	Best Makeup
Vincent Dufault, Two Women (Deux femmes en or) Nermin Grbic, Peak Everything (Amour apocalypse) Nermin Grbic, Universal Language (Une langue universelle) Jeanne Milon, Once Upon My Mother (Ma mère, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan) Jonathan Paulin, Vile & Miserable (Vil & Misérable)	Djina Caron, Two Women (Deux femmes en or) Jeanne Lafond, Compulsive Liar 2 (Menteuse) Léonie Lévesque-Robert, Bruno Gatien, Stefan Ashdown and Caroline Aquin, Vile & Miserable (Vil & Misérable) Marie Salvado, Peak Everything (Amour apocalypse) Marie Salvado, Universal Language (Une langue universelle)
Best Visual Effects	Best Casting
Jean-François « Jafaz » Ferland, Marie-Claude Lafontaine and Marc Morissette, Shepherds (Bergers) Marc Hall and David Atexide, Vile & Miserable (Vil & Misérable) Sam Javanrouh, Universal Language (Une langue universelle) Olivier Masson, Peak Everything (Amour apocalypse) François Trudel and Cynthia Mourou, You Are Not Alone (Vous n'êtes pas seuls)	Nathalie Boutrie, Hannah Antaki and Jon Comerford, Peak Everything (Amour apocalypse) Catherine Didelot and Maxime Giroux, Who by Fire (Comme le feu) Adélaïde Mauvernay and Nathalie Boutrie, Shepherds (Bergers) Karel Quinn, Two Women (Deux femmes en or) Marilou Richer, Universal Language (Une langue universelle)
Most Successful Film Outside Quebec	Most Successful Short Film Outside Quebec
Hola Frida — Florence Roche, André Kadi, Laurence Petit, Carole Scotta, Eliott Khayat, Karine Vézina Intercepted — Oksana Karpovych, Rocío Barba Fuentes, Giacomo Nudi, Pauline Tran Van Lieu, Lucie Rego, Darya Bassel, Olha Beskhmelnytsina, Sophie Deraspe, Mathyas Lefebure Shepherds (Bergers) — Luc Déry, Kim McCraw, Élaine Hébert, Caroline Bonmarchand, Xenia Sulyma Universal Language (Une langue universelle) — Sylvain Corbeil, Matthew Rankin, Ila Firouzabadi, Pirouz Nemati Who by Fire (Comme le feu) — Galilé Marion-Gauvin, Philippe Lesage	Gender Reveal — Mo Matton, Léonie Hurtubise Maybe Elephants — Torill Kove, Lise Fearnley, Tonje Skar Reiersen, Maral Mohammadian Mercenaire — Pier-Philippe Chevigny, Geneviève Gosselin-G. perfectly a strangeness — Justine Baillargeon, Alison McAlpine Who Loves the Sun — Arshia Shakiba, Zaynê Akyol
Best First Film	Prix Michel-Côté
A Christmas Storm (Le Cyclone de Noël) — Alain Chicoine The Last Meal (Le Dernier repas) — Maryse Legagneur Vile & Miserable (Vil & Misérable) — Jean-François Leblanc, Samuel Cantin Who Do I Belong To (Là d'où l'on vient) — Meryam Joobeur You Are Not Alone (Vous n'êtes pas seuls) — Marie-Hélène Viens, Philippe Lupien	Blue Sky Jo (La petite et le vieux) — Sonia Despars, Marc Biron, Yoann Sauvageau, Patrice Sauvé, Sébastien Girard A Christmas Storm (Le Cyclone de Noël) — Alain Chicoine, Mia Desroches, Christian Larouche, Sébastien Létourneau, Louis-Philippe Drolet, Louis Morissette, Mélanie Viau, Dominic Anctil, Marie-Élène Grégoire, Louis-Philippe Rivard Compulsive Liar 2 (Menteuse) — Patrick Roy, André Dupuy, Marie-Alexandra Forget, Émile Gaudreault, Éric K. Boulianne, Sébastien Ravary Miss Boots (Mlle Bottine) — Antonello Cozzolino, Brigitte Léveillé, Dominic James, Patrick Roy, Yan Lanouette Turgeon Shepherds (Bergers) — Luc Déry, Kim McCraw, Élaine Hébert, Caroline Bonmarchand, Xenia Sulyma, Chantal Pagé, Sophie Deraspe, Mathyas Lefebure
Iris Tribute
Léa Pool

References

1. Charles-Henri Ramond, "(Prix Iris 2025): finalistes dévoilés". Films du Québec, October 8, 2025.
2. "Une langue universelle en tête du peloton". Ici Radio-Canada, October 7, 2025.
3. Éric Lavallée, "2025 Prix IRIS: Rankin’s ‘Universal Language’ Leads “Quebec Oscar” Noms with 17; Lesage’s ‘Comme le feu’ Lands 8". Ioncinema, October 7, 2025.
4. Maxime Demers, "La réalisatrice Léa Pool recevra l’Iris Hommage au prochain Gala Québec Cinéma". Le Journal de Montréal , October 27, 2025.