# Prix Michel-Côté

The Prix Michel-Côté is an annual film award, presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its annual Prix Iris, to honour the most popular film of the year among film audiences in Quebec.
First presented in 1999 as part of the Prix Jutra, the award was known as the Billet d'or ("Golden Ticket"), and was presented to the film that had been the most successful at the box office. When the awards program was relaunched as the Prix Iris, the Billet d'or was relaunched as the Prix Public, which now sees the five top-grossing films of the year submitted to a public vote to award the film that was most liked by audiences.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada and its effects on film distribution in 2020, the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021 did not limit the award to only the five top-grossing films of the year, but allowed the public to vote for their favourite among all 16 Quebec films that had received any commercial screenings at all in the previous year. Ten days after the initial announcement, the organization also decided to add all of the eligible documentary films to the vote as well, bringing the total number of eligible films for the award to 29. After a first round of voting, the nominees were reduced to five, including two documentaries: Call Me Human and eventual winner The Rose Family.
In December 2023, following the death of influential Quebec actor Michel Côté, Québec Cinéma announced the award's renaming in his memory. Côté had starred in six "Billet d'or" winning films: Life After Love (La Vie après l'amour), C.R.A.Z.Y., Cruising Bar 2, Father and Guns (De père en flic), Piché: The Landing of a Man (Piché, entre ciel et terre) and Omertà.

## 1990s

| Year | Film | Directors and producers |
| 1999 1st Jutra Awards | Les Boys | Louis Saia, Richard Goudreau, Jeffrey Tinnell |

## 2000s

| Year | Film | Directors and producers |
| 2000 2nd Jutra Awards | Les Boys II | Louis Saia, Richard Goudreau, Jeffrey Tinnell |
| 2001 3rd Jutra Awards | Life After Love (La Vie après l'amour) | Gabriel Pelletier, Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal |
| 2002 4th Jutra Awards | Les Boys III | Louis Saia, Richard Goudreau, Jeffrey Tinnell |
| 2003 5th Jutra Awards | Séraphin: Heart of Stone (Séraphin: un homme et son péché) | Charles Binamé, Louis Laverdière, Luc Martineau |
| 2004 6th Jutra Awards | Seducing Doctor Lewis (La Grande séduction) | Jean-François Pouliot, Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal |
| 2005 7th Jutra Awards | Happy Camper (Camping sauvage) | Guy A. Lepage, Sylvain Roy, Lyse Lafontaine, Tony Roman |
| 2006 8th Jutra Awards | C.R.A.Z.Y. | Jean-Marc Vallée, Pierre Even |
| 2007 9th Jutra Awards | Bon Cop, Bad Cop | Érik Canuel, Kevin Tierney |
| 2008 10th Jutra Awards | The 3 L'il Pigs (Les 3 p'tits cochons) | Patrick Huard, Pierre Gendron, Christian Larouche |
| 2009 11th Jutra Awards | Cruising Bar 2 | Michel Côté, Robert Ménard, Claude Bonin, Claire Wojas |

## 2010s

| Year | Film | Directors and producers |
| 2010 12th Jutra Awards | Father and Guns (De père en flic) | Émile Gaudreault, Daniel Louis, Denise Robert |
| 2011 13th Jutra Awards | Piché: The Landing of a Man (Piché, entre ciel et terre) | Sylvain Archambault, André Dupuy |
| 2012 14th Jutra Awards | Starbuck | Ken Scott, André Rouleau |
| 2013 15th Jutra Awards | Omertà | Luc Dionne, Daniel Louis, Denise Robert |
| 2014 16th Jutra Awards | Louis Cyr (Louis Cyr, l'homme le plus fort du monde) | Daniel Roby, Caroline Héroux, Christian Larouche, Stephanie Heroux |
| 2015 17th Jutra Awards | Mommy | Xavier Dolan, Nancy Grant |
| 2016 18th Quebec Cinema Awards | Snowtime! (La Guerre des tuques 3D) | Jean-François Pouliot, Marie-Claude Beauchamp, François Brisson |
| 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards | 1:54 | Yan England, Diane England, Denise Robert |
| 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards | The 3 L'il Pigs 2 (Les 3 p'tits cochons 2) | Jean-François Pouliot, Pierre Gendron, Christian Larouche |
| 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards | Bad Seeds (Les Mauvaises Herbes) | Louis Bélanger, Lorraine Dufour, Luc Vandal |
| 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards | It's Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde) | Xavier Dolan, Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant, Elisha Karmitz, Nathanaël Karmitz, Michel Merkt |
| 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards | Votez Bougon | Jean-François Pouliot, Fabienne Larouche, Michel Trudeau |
| 2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards | Junior Majeur | Éric Tessier, Christian Larouche |
| 2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards | Ballerina | Éric Summer, Éric Warin, Laurent Zeitoun, Yann Zenou, Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, André Rouleau, Valérie d'Auteuil |
| 2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards | Bon Cop, Bad Cop 2 | Alain DesRochers, Pierre Even, Patrick Huard, François Flamand |
| 2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards | Father and Guns 2 (De père en flic 2) | Émile Gaudreault, Denise Robert |
| 2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards | Threesome (Le Trip à trois) | Nicolas Monette, Guillaume Lespérance, André Dupuy |
| 2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards | 1991 | Ricardo Trogi, Nicole Robert |
| 2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards | La Bolduc | François Bouvier, Valérie D'Auteuil, André Rouleau |
| 2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards | The Fall of the American Empire (La Chute de l'empire américain) | Denys Arcand, Denise Robert |
| 2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards | The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles) | Sébastien Pilote, Marc Daigle, Bernadette Payeur |
| 2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards | Racetime (La Course des tuques) | Benoît Godbout, Marie-Claude Beauchamp, François Brisson |

## 2020s

| Year | Film | Directors and producers |
| 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards | And the Birds Rained Down (Il pleuvait des oiseaux) | Louise Archambault, Ginette Petit |
| 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards | A Brother's Love (La femme de mon frère) | Monia Chokri, Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant |
| 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards | Compulsive Liar (Menteur) | Émile Gaudreault, Denise Robert |
| 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards | Mafia Inc. | Daniel Grou, Antonello Cozzolino, Valérie d'Auteuil, André Rouleau |
| 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards | Thanks for Everything (Merci pour tout) | Louise Archambault, André Dupuy |
| 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards | The Rose Family (Les Rose) | Félix Rose, Marco Frascarelli, Colette Loumède, Philippe-A. Allard, Eric Piccoli |
| 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards | Call Me Human (Je m'appelle humain) | Kim O'Bomsawin, Andrée-Anne Frenette |
| 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards | The Decline (Jusqu'au déclin) | Patrice Laliberté, Julie Groleau, Nicolas Krief, Charles Dionne |
| 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards | Goddess of the Fireflies (La déesse des mouches à feu) | Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, Luc Vandal, Catherine Léger |
| 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards | The Vinland Club (Le Club Vinland) | Benoît Pilon, Chantal Lafleur, Normand Bergeron, Marc Robitaille |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | Sam | Diane England, Denise Robert, Yan England, André Gulluni |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | Drunken Birds (Les oiseaux ivres) | Luc Déry, Kim McCraw, Sara Mishara, Ivan Grbovic |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | Goodbye Happiness (Au revoir le bonheur) | Christian Larouche, Ken Scott |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | The Guide to the Perfect Family (La guide de la famille parfaite) | Louis Morissette, Félize Frappier, Louis-Philippe Drolet, Ricardo Trogi, François Avard, Jean-François Léger |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | Maria | Nathalie Brigitte Bustos, Alec Provonost, Mariana Mazza, Justine Phillie |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | Maria Chapdelaine | Pierre Even, Sylvain Proulx, Sébastien Pilote |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | Old Buddies (Les vieux chums) | Samuel Gagnon, Claude Gagnon, Bahija Essoussi, Yuri Yoshimura-Gagnon |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | The Perfect Victim (La victime parfaite) | Denise Robert, Monic Néron, Émilie Perreault |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | A Revision (Une révision) | Denise Robert, Catherine Therrien, Louis Godbout, Normand Corbeil |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | The Time Thief (L'arracheuse de temps) | Antonello Cozzolino, Francis Leclerc, Fred Pellerin |
| 2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards | My Mother's Men (Les hommes de ma mère) | Patrick Roy, Patrick Huard, Anik Jean, Maryse Latendresse |
| 2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards | Confessions of a Hitman (Confessions) | Christian Larouche, Sébastien Létourneau, Luc Picard, Sylvain Guy |
| 2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards | Katak: The Brave Beluga (Katak, le brave béluga) | Nancy Florence Savard, Christine Dallaire-Dupont, Nicola Lemay, Andrée Lambert, Xiaojuan Zhou, Chantale Pagé |
| 2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards | One Summer (Le temps d'un été) | Patrick Roy, Antonello Cozzolino, Brigitte Léveillé, Louise Archambault, Marie Vien |
| 2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards | Two Days Before Christmas (23 décembre) | Patrick Roy, Guillaume Lespérance, Miryam Bouchard, India Desjardins |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards | Sisters and Neighbors! (Nos belles-sœurs) | Yoann Sauvageau, Denise Robert, René Richard Cyr |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards | 1995 | Patrick Roy, Marie-Claude Poulin, Ricardo Trogi |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards | The Nature of Love (Simple comme Sylvain) | Patrick Roy, Monia Chokri, Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant, Elisha Karmitz, Nathanaël Karmitz |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards | Ru | Patrick Roy, Marie-Alexandra Forget, André Dupuy, Charles-Olivier Michaud, Jacques Davidts |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards | Testament | Yoann Sauvageau, Denise Robert, Denys Arcand |