[4] The organization established a committee to determine a new permanent name for the awards, which announced the new Prix Iris name in October 2016.
Winners at the 2016 ceremony received a new wooden statue, replacing the previous trophy created by Charles Daudelin.
The new trophy was created by Montreal's Nouveau Studio; it is made of solid maple, painted white, with gold and acrylic leaves.
With only three weeks to design and produce the new statue following the renaming of the award, it would not have been possible to cast the trophies out of bronze.
My Internship in Canada (Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre) won three awards from four nominations, including Best Supporting Actor for Irdens Exantus.