Prix Iris for Best Actor

Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Actor (French: Prix Iris de la meilleure interprétation dans un premier rôle masculin) to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.

Until 2016, it was known as the Jutra Award for Best Actor 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]

Luc Picard received the most nominations in this category, six, and received one award. Gilbert Sicotte received three nominations and won everytime, becoming the actor with the most wins in this category. Paul Ahmarani and Olivier Gourmet jointly received the award for Congorama, making Ahmarani the first actor to win the award twice and Gourmet the first non-Canadian to win the award.

Natar Ungalaaq became the first indigenous actor to win the award for his performance in The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre). Les Boys III is the only film to receive three nominations in this category. Three actors were nominated multiple times for playing the same character: Marc Messier for Les Boys II and Les Boys III, Patrick Huard for Bon Cop, Bad Cop and Bon Cop, Bad Cop 2 and Jean-Carl Boucher for 1981, 1987, 1991 and 1995.

Seven actors received nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor or Revelation of the Year in the same year:

• In 2002, Luc Picard won Best Actor for February 15, 1839 (15 février 1839) and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for The Woman Who Drinks (La femme qui boit).
• In 2008, Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge was nominated for Best Actor for Nitro and Best Supporting Actor for The 3 L'il Pigs (Les 3 p'tits cochons).
• In 2012, Mario Saint-Amand was nominated for Best Actor for Gerry and Best Supporting Actor for Coteau rouge.
• In 2020, Robin Aubert was nominated for Best Actor for Young Juliette (Jeune Juliette) and Best Supporting Actor for Thanks for Everything (Merci pour tout).
• In 2023, Steve Laplante won Best Actor for Viking and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Babysitter.
• In 2024, Marc-André Grondin was nominated for Best Actor for The Successor (Le successeur) and won Best Supporting Actor for Richelieu.
• Also in 2024, Félix-Antoine Bénard received dual nominations for Best Actor and Revelation of the Year for his role in Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant).

1990s

Year	Actor	Film	Ref
1999 1st Jutra Awards
	Alexis Martin	August 32nd on Earth (Un 32 août sur terre)	[3]
	Marc Messier	Les Boys II	[4]
	Marcel Sabourin	Now or Never (Aujourd'hui ou jamais)
	Dino Tavarone	2 Seconds (2 secondes)

2000s

Year	Actor	Film	Ref
2000 2nd Jutra Awards
	Gabriel Arcand	Post Mortem	[3]
	Sébastien Huberdeau	Sable Island (L'île de sable)	[5]
	Pierre Lebeau	Matroni and Me (Matroni et moi)
	Luc Picard	The Last Breath (Le dernier souffle)
2001 3rd Jutra Awards
	Paul Ahmarani	The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge (La moitié gauche du frigo)	[3]
	François Papineau	The Bottle (La bouteille)	[6]
	David La Haye	Full Blast
	Michel Côté	Life After Love (La vie après l'amour)
2002 4th Jutra Awards
	Luc Picard	February 15, 1839 (15 février 1839)	[3]
	Rémy Girard	Les Boys III	[7]
	Patrick Huard	Les Boys III
	David La Haye	Soft Shell Man (Un crabe dans la tête)
	Marc Messier	Les Boys III
	Zinedine Soualem	Tar Angel (L'ange de goudron)
2003 5th Jutra Awards
	Pierre Lebeau	Séraphin: Heart of Stone (Séraphin: Un homme et son péché)	[3]
	Paul Ahmarani	The Marsh (Le Marais)	[8]
	Roy Dupuis	Séraphin: Heart of Stone (Séraphin: Un homme et son péché)
	Patrice Robitaille	Québec-Montréal
2004 6th Jutra Awards
	Serge Thériault	Gaz Bar Blues	[3]
	Raymond Bouchard	Seducing Doctor Lewis (La grande Séduction)	[9]
	Rémy Girard	The Barbarian Invasions (Les invasions barbares)
	Luc Picard	8:17 p.m. Darling Street (20h17 rue Darling)
2005 7th Jutra Awards
	Roy Dupuis	Looking for Alexander (Mémoires affectives)	[3]
	Michel Côté	The Last Tunnel (Le dernier tunnel)	[10]
	Guy Jodoin	Dans une galaxie près de chez vous
	David La Haye	Battle of the Brave (Nouvelle-France)
2006 8th Jutra Awards
	Marc-André Grondin	C.R.A.Z.Y.	[3]
	Patrick Drolet	The Novena (La neuvaine)	[11]
	Roy Dupuis	The Rocket (Maurice Richard)
	Luc Picard	Audition (L'audition)
2007 9th Jutra Awards
	Paul Ahmarani	Congorama	[3]
	Olivier Gourmet	Congorama
	Marc Béland	The Little Book of Revenge (Guide de la petit vengeance)	[12]
	Colm Feore	Bon Cop, Bad Cop
	Patrick Huard	Bon Cop, Bad Cop
	Luc Picard	A Sunday in Kigali (Un dimanche à Kigali)
2008 10th Jutra Awards
	Roy Dupuis	Shake Hands with the Devil	[3]
	Marc Labrèche	Days of Darkness (L'âge des ténèbres)	[13]
	Claude Legault	The 3 L'il Pigs (Les 3 p'tits cochons)
	Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge	Nitro
2009 11th Jutra Awards
	Natar Ungalaaq	The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre)	[3]
	Michel Côté	Cruising Bar 2	[14]
	Alexis Martin	Le Banquet
	Vincent-Guillaume Otis	Babine

2010s

Year	Actor	Film	Ref
2010 12th Jutra Awards
	Sébastien Ricard	Through the Mist (Dédé, à travers les brumes)	[3]
	Jean-Carl Boucher	1981	[15]
	Michel Côté	Father and Guns (De père en flic)
	Normand D'Amour	5150 Elm's Way (5150, rue des Ormes)
	Xavier Dolan	I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère)
2011 13th Jutra Awards
	Claude Legault	10½	[3]
	Jay Baruchel	The Trotsky	[16]
	Emmanuel Bilodeau	Curling
	Jacques Godin	The Last Escape (La dernière fugue)
	François Papineau	Route 132
2012 14th Jutra Awards
	Gilbert Sicotte	The Salesman (Le vendeur)	[3]
	Mohamed Fellag	Monsieur Lazhar	[17]
	Patrick Huard	Starbuck
	Charles Antoine Perreault	A Life Begins (Une vie qui commence)
	Mario Saint-Amand	Gerry
2013 15th Jutra Awards
	Julien Poulin	Camion	[3]
	Ali Ammar	Romeo Eleven (Roméo Onze)	[18]
	Gabriel Arcand	Karakara
	Marc-André Grondin	L'Affaire Dumont
	Victor Andrés Trelles Turgeon	The Torrent (Le torrent)
2014 16th Jutra Awards
	Antoine Bertrand	Louis Cyr (Louis Cyr: L'homme le plus fort du monde)	[3]
	Gabriel Arcand	The Dismantling (Le démantèlement)	[19]
	Alexandre Landry	Gabrielle
	Marcel Sabourin	Another House (L'autre maison)
	Isaka Sawadogo	Diego Star
2015 17th Jutra Awards
	Antoine Olivier Pilon	Mommy	[3]
	Walter Borden	Gerontophilia	[20]
	Jean-Carl Boucher	1987
	Guy Nadon	Guardian Angel (L'ange gardien)
	Patrice Robitaille	The Little Queen (La petite reine)
2016 18th Quebec Cinema Awards
	Gilbert Sicotte	Paul à Québec	[21]
	Xavier Dolan	Elephant Song	[21]
	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)
2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards
	Gabriel Arcand	A Kid (Le fils de Jean)	[22]
	Dane DeHaan	Two Lovers and a Bear	[23]
	Antoine Olivier Pilon	1:54
	Émile Schneider	Where Atilla Passes (Là où Attila passe)
	Gaspard Ulliel	It's Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde)
2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards
	Christian Bégin	Infiltration (Le problème d'infiltration)	[24]
	Jesse Camacho	We're Still Together	[25]
	Patrick Huard	Bon Cop, Bad Cop 2
	Joey Klein	We're Still Together
	Jean-Simon Leduc	Family First (Chien de garde)
2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards
	Martin Dubreuil	For Those Who Don't Read Me (À tous ceux qui ne me lisent pas)	[26]
	Jean-Carl Boucher	1991	[27]
	Pierre-Luc Brillant	The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles)
	Patrick Hivon	We Are Gold (Nous sommes Gold)
	Théodore Pellerin	Genesis (Genèse)

2020s

Year	Actor	Film	Ref
2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards
	Gilbert Sicotte	And the Birds Rained Down (Il pleuvait des oiseaux)	[28]
	Robin Aubert	Young Juliette (Jeune Juliette)	[29]
	Marc-André Grondin	Mafia Inc.
	Patrick Hivon	A Brother's Love (La femme de mon frère)
	Niels Schneider	Sympathy for the Devil (Sympathie pour le diable)
2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards
	Sébastien Ricard	The Vinland Club (Le club Vinland)	[30]
	Réal Bossé	The Decline (Jusqu'au déclin)	[31]
	Paul Doucet	Our Own (Les nôtres)
	Patrick Hivon	Mont Foster
	Antoine Olivier Pilon	Target Number One
2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards
	Vincent-Guillaume Otis	Norbourg	[32]
	Sylvain Marcel	Aline	[33]
	Robert Naylor	The Noise of Engines (Le bruit des moteurs)
	Patrice Robitaille	A Revision (Une révision)
	Nguyen Thanh Tri	The Greatest Country in the World (Le meilleur pays du monde)
2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards
	Steve Laplante	Viking	[34]
	Guillaume Cyr	Family Game (Arseneault et fils)	[35]
	Patrick Hivon	Babysitter
	Henri Picard	The Dishwasher (Le Plongeur)
	Luc Picard	Confessions of a Hitman (Confessions)
2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards
	Théodore Pellerin	Solo	[36]
	Félix-Antoine Bénard	Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant)	[37]
	Jean-Carl Boucher	1995
	Pierre-Yves Cardinal	The Nature of Love (Simple comme Sylvain)
	Marc-André Grondin	The Successor (Le Successeur)

Multiple wins and nominations

Multiple wins Wins Actor 3 Gilbert Sicotte 2 Paul Ahmarani Gabriel Arcand Roy Dupuis Sébastien Ricard

Three or more nominations Nominations Actor 6 Luc Picard 4 Gabriel Arcand Jean-Carl Boucher Michel Côté Roy Dupuis Marc-André Grondin Patrick Hivon Patrick Huard 3 Paul Ahmarani David La Haye Antoine Olivier Pilon Patrice Robitaille Gilbert Sicotte

Combined totals for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Revelation of the Year

Multiple wins Wins Actor 3 Gabriel Arcand Théodore Pellerin Luc Picard Gilbert Sicotte 2 Paul Ahmarani Roy Dupuis Marc-André Grondin Jean Lapointe Claude Legault Julien Poulin Sébastien Ricard

Three or more nominations Nominations Actor 10 Luc Picard 7 Rémy Girard 6 Gabriel Arcand 5 Michel Côté Martin Dubreuil Marc-André Grondin Patrick Hivon Patrick Huard 4 Robin Aubert Emmanuel Bilodeau Jean-Carl Boucher Guillaume Cyr Roy Dupuis Steve Laplante Pierre Lebeau Alexis Martin Théodore Pellerin 3 Paul Ahmarani Normand D'Amour David La Haye Claude Legault François Papineau Antoine Olivier Pilon Julien Poulin Sébastien Ricard Patrice Robitaille Gilbert Sicotte

See also

• Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor