Премия «Ирис»: История и Переименования Квебекской Кинонаграды

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The Prix Iris is a Canadian film award, presented annually by Québec Cinéma, which recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in Quebec. Until 2016, it was known as the Jutra Award (Prix Jutra, with the ceremony called La Soirée des Jutra) in memory of influential Quebec film director Claude Jutra, but Jutra's name was withdrawn from the awards following the publication of Yves Lever's biography of Jutra, which alleged that he had sexually abused children. It should not be confused with the Claude Jutra Award, a special award presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television as part of the separate Canadian Screen Awards program which was also renamed in 2016 following the allegations against Jutra.

Introduced in 1999, the awards are presented for Best Film and performance, writing and technical categories such as best actor, actress, director, screenplay, et cetera. Due to Quebec's majority francophone population, most films made in the province are French language films, but English language films made in the province are also fully eligible for nomination. The awards maintain slightly different eligibility criteria for international coproductions, however: a coproduction which surpasses the organization's criteria for "majority Québécois" involvement is treated the same as a Quebec film, with full eligibility in all categories, while a coproduction which is classified as "minority Québécois", such as the 2015 film Brooklyn, is eligible only in categories where a resident of Quebec is the nominee, and cannot be submitted for Best Film. The initial creation of the awards sparked some concern that the idea of a separate award for Quebec films would undermine the pan Canadian scope of the Genie Awards; Québec Cinéma clarified that it did not have, and would not impose, a rule that films could not be submitted for both awards, although at least one film producer, Roger Frappier, voluntarily declined to submit the films August 32nd on Earth (Un 32 août sur terre) and 2 Seconds (2 secondes) for Genie consideration at all on the grounds that since neither film was projected to be popular outside Quebec, they would purportedly not get any public relations or marketing benefit out of Genie nominations. Frappier has not subsequently refused to submit other films to the Genies or the Canadian Screen Awards after 1999. Following the withdrawal of Jutra's name from the award, the 2016 awards were presented solely under the name Québec Cinéma pending an announcement of the award's new permanent name. The awards replaced the prix Guy L'Écuyer, created in 1987 by Les Rendez vous du cinéma québécois in memory of actor Guy L'Écuyer. The 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards ceremony, originally planned for June 7, 2020, was cancelled due to the COVID 19 pandemic in Canada; unlike the 8th Canadian Screen Awards, however, the award nominations had not yet been released when the cancellation of the ceremony was announced. Nominations were still released on April 22, and the winners were announced via livestreaming on June 10. Following the death of influential Quebec filmmaker Jean Marc Vallée in December 2021, there was some public demand that Québec Cinéma rename the awards to the Prix Vallée in his honour. In 2022, Radio Canada announced that due to declining ratings in recent years, it would not televise the 2023 awards, and was instead planning alternative ways to highlight Quebec film in its programming. In February 2023, Québec Cinéma indicated that it was in negotiations with other broadcasters to carry the 25th Quebec Cinema Awards; as of May 2023, however, the organization had confirmed only that the ceremony would not take place in its usual June scheduling. In July 2023, Québec Cinéma announced that the ceremony would be held in December 2023, and broadcast by Noovo. The organization has not yet confirmed whether the awards will be permanently rescheduled to December, or whether the 26th ceremony will be delayed to 2025 so that it can return to its traditional scheduling.

Ceremony Date Best Picture Host Location Broadcaster 1st March 7, 1999 The Red Violin (Le violon rouge) Rémy Girard Théâtre Saint Denis TVA 2nd March 5, 2000 Post Mortem Yves Jacques and Élise Guilbault Monument National 3rd February 25, 2001 Maelström Théâtre Saint Denis 4th February 17, 2002 Soft Shell Man (Un crabe dans la tête) Sylvie Moreau 5th February 23, 2003 Québec Montréal Théâtre Maisonneuve Radio Canada 6th February 22, 2004 The Barbarian Invasions (Les invasions barbares) 7th February 20, 2005 Looking for Alexander (Mémoires affectives) Patrick Huard 8th March 19, 2006 C. R. A. Z. Y. Normand Brathwaite 9th February 18, 2007 Congorama 10th March 9, 2008 Continental, a Film Without Guns (Continental, un film sans fusil) Théâtre Saint Denis 11th March 29, 2009 The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre) Karine Vanasse 12th March 28, 2010 I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère) Patrice L'Écuyer 13th March 13, 2011 Incendies Yves Pelletier and Sylvie Moreau 14th March 11, 2012 Monsieur Lazhar 15th March 17, 2013 War Witch (Rebelle) Rémy Girard Salle Pierre Mercure 16th March 23, 2014 Louis Cyr (Louis Cyr: L'homme le plus fort du monde) Pénélope McQuade and Laurent Paquin Monument National 17th March 15, 2015 Mommy Pénélope McQuade and Stéphane Bellavance 18th March 20, 2016 The Passion of Augustine (La passion d'Augustine) 19th June 4, 2017 It's Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde) Guylaine Tremblay and fr Maison Radio Canada 20th June 3, 2018 Ravenous (Les affamés) 21st June 2, 2019 1991 22nd June 10, 2020 Antigone No ceremony due to the COVID 19 pandemic; winners were announced via livestreaming. 23rd June 6, 2021 Goddess of the Fireflies (La déesse des mouches à feu) Geneviève Schmidt Maison Radio Canada 24th June 5, 2022 Drunken Birds (Les oiseaux ivres) 25th December 10, 2023 Viking Jay Du Temple Grandé Studios Noovo