Prix Iris for Best Cinematography in a Documentary

The Prix Iris for Best Cinematography in a Documentary (French: Prix Iris de la meilleure direction de la photographie d'un long métrage documentaire) is an annual film award, presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris awards program, to honour the year's best cinematography in documentary films made within the Cinema of Quebec.

The award was presented for the first time at the 19th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2017.

With his win for Mother Saigon (Má Sài Gòn), Mathieu Laverdière became the first cinematographer to receive an award for Best Cinematography in a Documentary and Best Cinematography, having previously won for Underground (Souterrain).

2010s

Year	Cinematographer	Film	Ref
2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards
	Étienne Roussy	Gulîstan, Land of Roses (Gulîstan, terre de roses)	[1]
	Jérémie Battaglia	Perfect (Parfaites)	[2]
	John Price	I Am the Blues
	Sébastien Rist, Aude Leroux-Lévesque	Living With Giants (Chez les géants)
	Olivier Tétreault	Manor (Manoir)
2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards
	François Messier-Rheault	A Skin So Soft (Ta peau si lisse)	[3]
	Benoit Aquin, Mathieu Roy	The Dispossessed (Les dépossédés)	[4]
	Samuel de Chavigny	Far Away Lands (Les terres lointaines)
	François Jacob, Vuk Stojanovic, Ilya Zima	A Moon of Nickel and Ice (Sur la lune de nickel)
	Étienne Roussy	Destierros
2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards
	Danae Elon, Itamar Mendes Flohr	A Sister's Song	[5]
	Benjamín Echazarreta	Cielo	[6]
	Sylvestre Guidi	New Memories
	Alexandre Lampron	Des histoires inventées
	Matthieu Rytz	Anote's Ark

2020s

Year	Cinematographer	Film	Ref
2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards
	Pedro Pires	Alexander Odyssey (Alexandre le fou)	[7]
	Dominic Dorval, Vincent Masse, Thomas Rinfret, Richard Tremblay	Mad Dog and the Butcher (Les Derniers vilains)	[8]
	Sami Mermer	Xalko
	François Messier-Rheault, Ernesto Pardo	Dark Suns (Soleils noirs)
	Pedro Ruiz	Havana, from on High (Sur les toits Havane)
2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards
	Olivier Higgins, Renaud Philippe	Wandering: A Rohingya Story (Errance sans retour)	[9]
	Sarah Baril Gaudet	Passage	[10]
	Hugo Gendron, Michel Valiquette	Call Me Human (Je m’appelle humain)
	Mathieu Perrault Lapierre	The 108 Journey
	Marianne Ploska	Prayer for a Lost Mitten (Prière pour une mitaine perdue)
2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards
	Tobie Marier Robitaille, Josée Deshaies	Big Giant Wave (Comme une vague)	[11]
	David Nadeau-Bernatchez, Sammy Baloji, Kiripi Katembo Siku	Rumba Rules, New Genealogies (Rumba Rules, nouvelles généalogies)	[12]
	Ariel Méthot	Dehors Serge dehors
	Léna Mill-Reuillard	Sisterhood (Ainsi soient-elles)
	Claire Sanford, Sam Trudelle	Fanny: The Right to Rock
2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards
	Jacquelyn Mills	Geographies of Solitude	[13]
	Geoffroy Beauchemin	Humus	[14]
	Nicolas Canniccioni, Arshia Shakiba	Rojek
	Joannie Lafrenière	Gabor
	Maude Plante-Husaruk	Far Beyond the Pasturelands (Au-delà des hautes vallées)
2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards
	Mathieu Laverdière	Mother Saigon (Má Sài Gòn)	[15]
	Philippe Lavalette	After the Odyssey (Au lendemain de l'odyssée)	[16]
	Kaveh Nabatian	Kite Zo A: Leave the Bones (Kite Zo A: Laisse les os)
	Ernesto Pardo, François Messier-Rheault	The White Guard (La Garde blanche)
	Louis Turcotte	Scratches of Life: The Art of Pierre Hébert (Graver l'homme: arrêt sur Pierre Hébert)

Multiple wins and nominations

Three or more nominations

Nominations	Cinematographer
3	François Messier-Rheault

Combined totals for Best Cinematography and Best Cinematography in a Documentary

Multiple wins Wins Cinematographer 7 André Turpin 3 Pierre Mignot Sara Mishara 2 Yves Bélanger Nicolas Bolduc Alain Dostie Pierre Gill Mathieu Laverdière

Three or more nominations Nominations Cinematographer 13 André Turpin 9 Sara Mishara 8 Steve Asselin 6 Nicolas Bolduc 5 Pierre Gill Michel La Veaux Mathieu Laverdière 4 Yves Bélanger Bernard Couture Josée Deshaies Daniel Jobin François Messier-Rheault Pierre Mignot 3 Nicolas Canniccioni Alain Dostie Guy Dufaux Nathalie Moliavko-Visotzky Ronald Plante Tobie Marier Robitaille

See also

• Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography in a Documentary