Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Director (French: Prix Iris de la meilleure réalisation) to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.
Until 2016, it was known as the Jutra Award for Best Director in memory of influential Quebec film director Claude Jutra.
Villeneuve is the only director to win two consecutive awards, for Polytechnique in 2010 and Incendies 2011, while Dolan is the only director to receive two nominations in the same year, for Mommy and Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme) in 2015.
To date, nineteen women were nominated for a total of twenty-four nominations, with Léa Pool, Anne Émond, Sophie Dupuis and Monia Chokri receiving multiple nominations.
Six women have won the award so far, the first being Lyne Charlebois in 2009 for Borderline.