22nd Quebec Cinema Awards

The 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards were presented on 10 June 2020,[1] to recognize talent and achievement in the cinema of Quebec. The planned 7 June ceremony was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but nominees were announced 23 April.[2] Abenaki documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin was also selected as the recipient of the Iris Tribute at the unanimous recommendation of Québec Cinéma's Comité de représentation professionnelle.[3]

Following the ceremony's cancellation, Québec Cinéma announced that on 10 June, most winners would be announced by webcast by Radio-Canada and ARTV, with the webcast hosted by Élise Guilbault, Guillaume Lambert and Mani Soleymanlou; following this, Jean-Philippe Wauthier hosted his show Bonsoir Bonsoir! where the winners for Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress and the Public Prize were announced.[1]

And the Birds Rained Down (Il pleuvait des oiseaux) received thirteen nominations, the most of the ceremony, and became the fifth film to receive a nomination in all four acting categories (not including Revelation of the Year). It won three awards, including two acting awards: Andrée Lachapelle posthumously won Best Actress while Gilbert Sicotte became the fourth person to receive three acting award and the first actor to win Best Actor three times.

Antigone was the night's big winner, winning six awards from eight nominations, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Revelation of the Year for Nahéma Ricci.[4]

Mafia Inc. received ten nominations and won Best Supporting Actor for Sergio Castellitto, while The Twentieth Century received nine nominations and won four awards. Other winners include Matthias & Maxime who took home three awards from seven nominations, including Best Supporting Actress for Micheline Bernard, and Sympathy for the Devil who won three awards from six nominations.

Robin Aubert became the sixth performer to receive two acting nominations during the same ceremony, for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, but he didn't win either award.

Although the awards were ordinated as the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards at the time of presentation, due to their presentation as a livestream rather than a traditional award ceremony Québec Cinéma opted to also enumerate its 2021 ceremony as the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards instead of the 23rd; however, the awards in 2022 were numbered as the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards instead of the 23rd, indicating that the 2021 awards are now considered the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards.[5]

  1. ^ a b Demers, Maxime (21 May 2020). "Un Gala Québec Cinéma en mode confinement". Le Journal de Montréal (in French). Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  2. ^ Demers, Maxime (23 April 2020). "Prix Iris: les réalisatrices à l'honneur". Le Journal de Montréal (in French). Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Huffington was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Le film Antigone, grand gagnant du Gala Québec Cinéma avec six prix" (in French). Radio-Canada. 10 June 2020. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  5. ^ Maxime Demers, "Gala Québec Cinéma: Les oiseaux ivres et Maria Chapdelaine partent favoris". TVA Nouvelles, April 14, 2022.