The 27th Quebec Cinema Awards was held on December 7, 2025, to honour achievements in the Cinema of Quebec in 2024 and 2025.Charles-Henri Ramond, "(Prix Iris 2025): finalistes dévoilés". Films du Québec, October 8, 2025. The ceremony was broadcast by Noovo, and hosted by Phil Roy for a second year in a row."Une langue universelle en tête du peloton". Ici Radio-Canada, October 7, 2025.
The artisans gala, presenting the craft awards not included in the broadcast ceremony, was held on December 4 and hosted by Mona de Grenoble, also for the second year in a row.Manon Dumais, "À quoi s’attendre du Gala Québec Cinéma". La Presse, December 4, 2025.
Overview of nominations Matthew Rankin's Universal Language received the most nominations with seventeen and ended up winning a leading eight awards, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay, as well as Best Supporting Actor for Mani Soleymanlou and Best Supporting Actress for Danielle Fichaud.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.
Two Women (Deux femmes en or) and Peak Everything (Amour Apocalypse) received fifteen nominations each and respectively won Best Actress for Karine Gonthier-Hyndman and Best Actor for Patrick Hivon. Shepherds (Bergers), which received thirteen nominations, won four technical awards.
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). She ultimately won the latter.
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.Maxime Demers, "La réalisatrice Léa Pool recevra l’Iris Hommage au prochain Gala Québec Cinéma". Le Journal de Montréal, October 27, 2025.
Nominees and winners Best Film Best Director Universal Language (Une langue universelle) — Sylvain Corbeil 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 Who by Fire (Comme le feu) — Galilé Marion-Gauvin, Thomas Ordonneau | valign="top" | Matthew Rankin, Universal Language (Une langue universelle) Sophie Deraspe, Shepherds (Bergers) Anne Émond, Peak Everything (Amour apocalypse) Philippe Lesage, Who by Fire (Comme le feu) Chloé Robichaud, Two Women (Deux femmes en or) Best Actor Best Actress Patrick Hivon, Peak Everything (Amour apocalypse) Paul Ahmarani, Who by Fire (Comme le feu) Antoine Bertrand, Miss Boots (Mlle Bottine) Félix-Antoine Duval, Shepherds (Bergers) Gildor Roy, Blue Sky Jo (La petite et le vieux) Karine Gonthier-Hyndman, Two Women (Deux femmes en or) Leïla Bekhti, Once Upon My Mother (Ma mère, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan) Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Compulsive Liar 2 (Menteuse) Marguerite Laurence, Miss Boots (Mlle Bottine) Laurence Leboeuf, Two Women (Deux femmes en or) Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Mani Soleymanlou, Universal Language (Une langue universelle) 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) Danielle Fichaud, Universal Language (Une langue universelle) Catherine Chabot, Compulsive Liar 2 (Menteuse) Sophie Desmarais, Who by Fire (Comme le feu) Chantal Fontaine, Vile & Miserable (Vil & Misérable) Juliette Gariépy, Two Women (Deux femmes en or) Revelation of the Year Best Screenplay Marguerite Laurence, Miss Boots (Mlle Bottine) Aurélia Arandi-Longpré, Who by Fire (Comme le feu) Juliette Bharucha, Blue Sky Jo (La petite et le vieux) Aksel Leblanc, Phoenixes (Phénix) Pirouz Nemati, Universal Language (Une langue universelle) Matthew Rankin, Ila Firouzabadi and 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) Best Documentary Best Short Documentary Intercepted — Oksana Karpovych, Rocío Barba Fuentes, Giacomo Nudi, Pauline Tran Van Lieu, Lucie Rego, Darya Bassel, Olha Beskhmelnytsina 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 Simon and Marianne (Simon et Marianne) — Pier-Luc Latulippe, Martin Fournier | valign="top" | Who Loves the Sun — Arshia Shakiba, Zaynê Akyol 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 murs-mémoire) — Axel Robin |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Live Action Short Film ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Animated Short Film |- | valign="top" | Mercenaire — Pier-Philippe Chevigny, Geneviève Gosselin-G. Fantas — Halima Elkhatabi Gender Reveal — Mo Matton, Léonie Hurtubise 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 | valign="top" | Maybe Elephants — Torill Kove, Lise Fearnley, Tonje Skar Reiersen, Maral Mohammadian Ibuka, Justice — Justice Rutikara, Mylène Augustin The Little Ancestor (Le Petit ancêtre) — Alexa Tremblay-Francœur, Stéphanie Gagné Out for Ice Cream (Crème à glace) — Rachel Samson, Raquel Sancinetti, Félix Dufour-Laperrière The Painting (Le Tableau) — Michèle Lemieux, Christine Noël, Julie Roy |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Art Direction ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" | Best Costume Design |- | valign="top" | Louisa Schabas, Universal Language (Une langue universelle) 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) 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) Glauco Bermudez and Étienne Roussy, Ghosts of the Sea (Les enfants du large) Hanna Abu Saada, I Shall Not Hate 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 Stéphane Lafleur, Shepherds (Bergers) 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) Anita Roth, Peak Everything (Amour apocalypse) Charlotte Tourrès, Intercepted 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) Best Original Music Best Original Music in a Documentary Philippe Brault, Shepherds (Bergers) 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, 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) Benoit Pinette and Marc-André Landry, Simon and Marianne (Simon et Marianne) Wilhelm Brandl, Okurimono Marc Gravel, The Battle of Saint-Léonard (La bataille de Saint-Léonard) Martin Lizotte, Waiting for Casimir (En attendant Casimir) Martin Roy and Luc Sicard, Billy Best Sound Best Sound in a Documentary Olivier Calvert, Stephen De Oliveira and Hans Laitres, Shepherds (Bergers) 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) Pablo Villegas, Sacha Ratcliffe and Bernard Gariépy Strobl, Universal Language (Une langue universelle) Alex Lane and Artem Kosynskyi, Intercepted 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) Best Hairstyling Best Makeup Jeanne Milon, Once Upon My Mother (Ma mère, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan) Vincent Dufault, Two Women (Deux femmes en or) Nermin Grbic, Peak Everything (Amour apocalypse) Nermin Grbic, Universal Language (Une langue universelle) Jonathan Paulin, Vile & Miserable (Vil & Misérable) Léonie Lévesque-Robert, Bruno Gatien, Stefan Ashdown and Caroline Aquin, Vile & Miserable (Vil & Misérable) Djina Caron, Two Women (Deux femmes en or) Jeanne Lafond, Compulsive Liar 2 (Menteuse) Marie Salvado, Peak Everything (Amour apocalypse) Marie Salvado, Universal Language (Une langue universelle) Best Visual Effects Best Casting Olivier Masson, Peak Everything (Amour apocalypse) 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) François Trudel and Cynthia Mourou, You Are Not Alone (Vous n'êtes pas seuls) Marilou Richer and Ila Firouzabadi, Universal Language (Une langue universelle) Nathalie Boutrie, Hannah Antaki and Jon Comerford, Peak Everything (Amour apocalypse) Catherine Didelot, Constance Demontoy and Maxime Giroux, Who by Fire (Comme le feu) Adélaïde Mauvernay and Nathalie Boutrie, Shepherds (Bergers) Karel Quinn and Lucie Llopis, Two Women (Deux femmes en or) Most Successful Film Outside Quebec Most Successful Short Film Outside Quebec Universal Language (Une langue universelle) — Sylvain Corbeil, Matthew Rankin, Ila Firouzabadi, Pirouz Nemati 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