# Prix Iris for Best Animated Short Film

The Prix Iris for Best Animated Short Film (French: Prix Iris du meilleur film d'animation) is an annual film award presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris program, to honour the year's best animated short film made within the cinema of Quebec.

## Statistics

Marc Bertrand received the most nominations, eleven, and won three awards. Bertrand became only the second person to receive four nominations in the same category in 2017. Patrick Bouchard received the most awards, four, from five nominations.
Seven short films nominated for this award were also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film: The Old Man and the Sea (which won both the Oscar and Prix Iris), My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts, When the Day Breaks, Nibbles, Madame Tutli-Putli, Sunday (Dimanche) and Blind Vaysha (Vaysha l'aveugle).
Despite not having their own category at the Prix Iris, ten full length animated features were nominated and won awards:
* At the 16th Jutra Awards, The Legend of Sarila (La légende de Sarila) was nominated for two awards: Best Original Music and Best Sound. It became the first animated film to receive any nominations in the history of the awards.
* At the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards, Snowtime! (La guerre des tuques 3D) was nominated for two awards: Best Art Direction and Best Sound. It won the latter and the Billet d'or, becoming the first animated film to win an award.
* At the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards, Ballerina was nominated for two awards: Most Successful Film Outside Quebec and the Public Prize.
* At the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards, Racetime (La course des tuques) was nominated for two awards: Most Successful Film Outside Quebec and the Public Prize.
* At the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards, Ville Neuve was nominated for Best Sound.
* At the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards, Felix and the Treasure of Morgäa (Félix et le trésor de Morgäa) was nominated for Best First Film. At the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards, it received an additional nomination for Most Successful Film Outside Quebec.
* At the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards, Archipelago (Archipel) was nominated for four awards: Best Documentary, Best Editing in a Documentary, Best Sound in a Documentary and Best Original Music in a Documentary, winning the latter.
* At the 25th Quebec Cinema Awards, Katak: The Brave Beluga (Katak, le brave Béluga) was nominated for two awards: Most Successful Film Outside Quebec and the Public Prize.
* Also at the 25th Quebec Cinema Awards, Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo (Dounia et la princesse d'Alep) was nominated Most Successful Film Outside Quebec. This marked the first time that two full length animated features were nominated in the same category.
* At at the 26th Quebec Cinema Awards, When Adam Changes (Adam change lentement) was nominated Best First Film.

## 2000s

| Year | Film | Filmmaker(s) |
| 2000 2nd Jutra Awards |
| 2000 2nd Jutra Awards | The Old Man and the Sea | Aleksandr Petrov |
| 2000 2nd Jutra Awards | Cuckoo, Mr. Edgar! (Coucou, Monsieur Edgar!) | Pierre M. Trudeau |
| 2000 2nd Jutra Awards | My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts | Torill Kove |
| 2000 2nd Jutra Awards | When the Day Breaks | Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis |
| 2001 3rd Jutra Awards |
| 2001 3rd Jutra Awards | The Hat (Le chapeau) | Michèle Cournoyer |
| 2001 3rd Jutra Awards | The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg (Le garçon qui a vu l'iceberg) | Paul Driessen |
| 2001 3rd Jutra Awards | Deadpan | Rick Raxlen |
| 2001 3rd Jutra Awards | From the Big Bang to Tuesday Morning (Du big bang à mardi matin) | Claude Cloutier |
| 2002 4th Jutra Awards |
| 2002 4th Jutra Awards | Black Soul (Âme noire) | Martine Chartrand |
| 2002 4th Jutra Awards | Glasses | Brian Duchscherer |
| 2002 4th Jutra Awards | A Hunting Lesson (Une leçon de chasse) | Jacques Drouin |
| 2003 5th Jutra Awards |
| 2003 5th Jutra Awards | The Brainwashers (Les ramoneurs cérébraux) | Patrick Bouchard |
| 2003 5th Jutra Awards | Antagonia | Nicolas Brault |
| 2003 5th Jutra Awards | Flux | Christopher Hinton |
| 2003 5th Jutra Awards | The Hungry Squid | John Weldon |
| 2004 6th Jutra Awards |
| 2004 6th Jutra Awards | Blue Like a Gunshot (Bleu comme un coup de feu) | Masoud Raouf |
| 2004 6th Jutra Awards | Black Ink on Blue Sky (Encre noire sur fond d'azur) | Félix Dufour-Laperrière |
| 2004 6th Jutra Awards | Islet (Îlot) | Nicolas Brault |
| 2004 6th Jutra Awards | Two Eastern Hair Lines | Steven Woloshen |
| 2005 7th Jutra Awards |
| 2005 7th Jutra Awards | Nibbles | Christopher Hinton |
| 2005 7th Jutra Awards | The Accordion (Accordéon) | Michèle Cournoyer |
| 2005 7th Jutra Awards | Imprints (Empreintes) | Jacques Drouin |
| 2005 7th Jutra Awards | Welcome to Kentucky | Craig Welch |
| 2006 8th Jutra Awards |
| 2006 8th Jutra Awards | Dehors novembre | Patrick Bouchard |
| 2006 8th Jutra Awards | cNote | Christopher Hinton |
| 2006 8th Jutra Awards | The Curse of the Voodoo Child | Steven Woloshen |
| 2006 8th Jutra Awards | Tower Bawher | Theodore Ushev |
| 2007 9th Jutra Awards |
| 2007 9th Jutra Awards | McLaren's Negatives | Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre |
| 2007 9th Jutra Awards | Here and There (Ici par ici) | Diane Obomsawin |
| 2007 9th Jutra Awards | Jaime Lo, Small and Shy (Jaime Lo, petite et timide) | Lillian Chan |
| 2007 9th Jutra Awards | The Man Who Waited (L'homme qui atttendait) | Theodore Ushev |
| 2008 10th Jutra Awards |
| 2008 10th Jutra Awards | Sleeping Betty (Isabelle au bois dormant) | Claude Cloutier |
| 2008 10th Jutra Awards | Madame Tutli-Putli | Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski |
| 2008 10th Jutra Awards | Subservience (Révérence) | Patrick Bouchard |
| 2008 10th Jutra Awards | The Tourists | Malcolm Sutherland |
| 2009 11th Jutra Awards |
| 2009 11th Jutra Awards | The Necktie (Le nœud cravate) | Jean-François Lévesque |
| 2009 11th Jutra Awards | Drux Flux | Theodore Ushev |
| 2009 11th Jutra Awards | Garbage Angels (Les anges déchets) | Pierre M. Trudeau |
| 2009 11th Jutra Awards | Rosa Rosa | Félix Dufour-Laperrière |

## 2010s

| Year | Film | Filmmaker(s) |
| 2010 12th Jutra Awards |
| 2010 12th Jutra Awards | Robes of War (Robe de Guerre) | Michèle Cournoyer |
| 2010 12th Jutra Awards | The Drawer and the Crow (Le tiroir et le corbeau) | Frédérick Tremblay |
| 2010 12th Jutra Awards | M | Félix Dufour-Laperrière |
| 2010 12th Jutra Awards | Oko | Alain Fournier |
| 2010 12th Jutra Awards | Playtime | Steven Woloshen |
| 2011 13th Jutra Awards |
| 2011 13th Jutra Awards | Lipsett Diaries (Les journaux de Lipsett) | Théodore Ushev |
| 2011 13th Jutra Awards | Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life | Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski |
| 2011 13th Jutra Awards | The Festival (La fête) | Malcolm Sutherland |
| 2011 13th Jutra Awards | Mamori | Karl Lemieux |
| 2011 13th Jutra Awards | Un vortex dans face | Joël Vaudreuil |
| 2012 14th Jutra Awards |
| 2012 14th Jutra Awards | Sunday (Dimanche) | Patrick Doyon |
| 2012 14th Jutra Awards | Of Events (D'aléas) | Mathieu Tremblay |
| 2012 14th Jutra Awards | Paula | Dominic-Étienne Simard |
| 2012 14th Jutra Awards | Rivière au Tonnerre | Pierre Hébert |
| 2012 14th Jutra Awards | White Strawberry (Blanche fraise) | Frédérick Tremblay |
| 2013 15th Jutra Awards |
| 2013 15th Jutra Awards | Bydlo | Patrick Bouchard |
| 2013 15th Jutra Awards | Here and the Great Elsewhere (Le grand ailleurs et le petit ici) | Michèle Lemieux |
| 2013 15th Jutra Awards | Joda | Théodore Ushev |
| 2013 15th Jutra Awards | Kaspar | Diane Obomsawin |
| 2013 15th Jutra Awards | Triptych 2 (Triptyque 2) | Pierre Hébert |
| 2014 16th Jutra Awards |
| 2014 16th Jutra Awards | The River's Lazy Flow (Le courant faible de la rivière) | Joël Vaudreuil, David Pierrat |
| 2014 16th Jutra Awards | The Day Is Listening (Le jour nous écoute) | Félix Dufour-Laperrière, Julie Roy |
| 2014 16th Jutra Awards | The End of Pinky (La fin de Pinky) | Claire Blanchet, Michael Fukushima |
| 2014 16th Jutra Awards | Gloria Victoria | Theodore Ushev, Marc Bertrand |
| 2014 16th Jutra Awards | Wandering (Errance) | Éléonore Goldberg |
| 2015 17th Jutra Awards |
| 2015 17th Jutra Awards | Jutra | Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre, Marc Bertrand, René Chénier |
| 2015 17th Jutra Awards | Lucky and Finnegan | Davide Di Saro |
| 2015 17th Jutra Awards | Migration | Mark Lomond, Johanne Ste-Marie |
| 2015 17th Jutra Awards | No Fish Where to Go (Nul poisson où aller) | Nicola Lemay, Janice Nadeau, Marc Bertrand |
| 2015 17th Jutra Awards | Soif | Michèle Cournoyer, René Chénier, Marcel Jean, Galilé Marion-Gauvin |
| 2016 18th Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2016 18th Quebec Cinema Awards | Carface (Autos Portraits) | Claude Cloutier, Julie Roy |
| 2016 18th Quebec Cinema Awards | All the Rage | Alexandra Lemay, Maral Mohammadian |
| 2016 18th Quebec Cinema Awards | My Heart Attack | Sheldon Cohen, Jelena Popovic, Marcy Page |
| 2016 18th Quebec Cinema Awards | The Sleepwalker (Sonámbulo) | Theodore Ushev, Dominique Noujeim, Galilé Marion-Gauvin |
| 2016 18th Quebec Cinema Awards | Squame | Nicolas Brault |
| 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards | Blind Vaysha (Vaysha l'aveugle) | Theodore Ushev, Marc Bertrand |
| 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards | Casino | Steven Woloshen |
| 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards | I Like Girls (J'aime les filles) | Diane Obomsawin, Marc Bertrand |
| 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards | Mamie | Janice Nadeau, Marc Bertrand, Julie Roy, Corinne Destombes |
| 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards | Oscar | Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre, Marc Bertrand, Jocelyne Perrier |
| 2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards | Dolls Don't Cry (Toutes les poupées ne pleurent pas) | Frédérick Tremblay, Pierre Lesage |
| 2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards | Hedgehog's Home (La maison du hérisson) | Eva Cvijanović, Jelena Popović, Vanja Andrijević |
| 2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards | Me, Baby & the Alligator | Jean Faucher, Bob Olivier |
| 2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards | Sweet Childhood (La pureté de l'enfance) | Zviane, Julie Roy, Marc Bertrand, Ron Dyens |
| 2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards | With or Without Sun (Avec ou sans soleil) | Jean-Guillaume Bastien |
| 2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards | The Subject (Le sujet) | Patrick Bouchard, Julie Roy |
| 2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards | Bone Mother | Dale Hayward, Sylvie Trouvé, Jelena Popović |
| 2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards | But One Bird Sang Not (Mais un oiseau ne chantait pas) | Pierre Hébert |
| 2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards | Not Your Panda | Tigris Alt Sakda |
| 2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards | The Sisters' Bedroom (La chambre des filles) | Claire Brognez |

## 2020s

| Year | Film | Filmmaker(s) |
| 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards | The Physics of Sorrow (Physique de la tristesse) | Theodore Ushev, Marc Bertrand |
| 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards | Clothing (Les vêtements) | Caroline Blais |
| 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards | The Great Malaise (Le mal du siècle) | Catherine Lepage, Marc Bertrand |
| 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards | Organic | Steven Woloshen |
| 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards | The Procession (Le cortège) | Pascal Blanchet, Rodolphe Saint-Gelais, Julie Roy |
| 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards | Hibiscus Season (La saison des hibiscus) | Éléonore Goldberg, Nicolas Dufour-Laperrière |
| 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards | Barcelona Burning (Barcelona de Foc) | Theodore Ushev |
| 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards | The Fourfold | Alisi Telengut |
| 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards | I, Barnabé (Moi, Barnabé) | Jean-François Lévesque, Julie Roy |
| 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards | In the Shadow of the Pines | Anne Koizumi, Sahar Yousefi |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | The Displeasure (La grogne) | Alisi Telengut, Dominique Dussault |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | Bad Seeds (Mauvaises herbes) | Claude Cloutier, Galilé Marion-Gauvin, Élise Labbé |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | Boobs (Lolos) | Marie Valade |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | No Title (Pas de titre) | Alexandra Myotte, Jean-Sébastien Hamel |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | They Dance With Their Heads (Ils dansent avec leurs têtes) | Thomas Corriveau |
| 2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards | Madeleine | Raquel Sancinetti |
| 2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards | Harvey | Janice Nadeau, Reginald de Guillebon, Pierre Méloni, Marc Bertrand, Christine Noël, Julie Roy |
| 2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards | Marie. Eduardo. Sophie. | Thomas Corriveau |
| 2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards | A Night for the Dogs | Max Woodward, Guillaume Dubois, Camille Lequenne |
| 2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards | Triangle of Darkness (Triangle noir) | Marie-Noëlle Moreau Robidas, Nicolas Dufour-Laperrière |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards | A Crab in the Pool (Un trou dans la poitrine) | Jean-Sébastien Hamel, Alexandra Myotte |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards | Entropic Memory (Mémoire entropique) | Nicolas Brault |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards | Families' Albums (Albums de familles) | Moïa Jobin-Paré |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards | Return to Hairy Hill (Retour à Hairy Hill) | Daniel Gies, Emily Paige |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards | Wild Flowers (Les Fleurs sauvages) | Rodolphe Saint-Gelais, Thierry Sirois, David Francke-Robitaille, Isabelle Grignon-Francke |