# 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. Following the withdrawal of Jutra's name from the award, the 2016 award was presented under the name Québec Cinéma. The Prix Iris name was announced in October 2016.
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 |
| 1999 1st Jutra Awards |
| 1999 1st Jutra Awards | Alexis Martin | August 32nd on Earth (Un 32 août sur terre) |
| 1999 1st Jutra Awards | Marc Messier | Les Boys II |
| 1999 1st Jutra Awards | Marcel Sabourin | Now or Never (Aujourd'hui ou jamais) |
| 1999 1st Jutra Awards | Dino Tavarone | 2 Seconds (2 secondes) |

## 2000s

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

## 2010s

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

## 2020s

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