The 8th Jutra Awards were held on March 19, 2006 to honour films made with the participation of the Quebec film industry in 2005.[1] Nominations were announced on February 8.[2]
Jean-Marc Vallée's C.R.A.Z.Y. dominated the ceremony. With fourteen nominations, a record, it swept each of the thirteen categories it was nominated in; only Pierre-Luc Brillant lost the award for Best Supporting Actor against his co-star Michel Côté. The movie also won the award for Most Successful Film Outside Quebec and the Billet d'or award, bringing its total to fifteen awards, also a record. The film also won three acting awards, the first film to do so and the first film to win both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor.
Audition (L'audition) received ten nominations, winning Best Original Music for Daniel Bélanger, while The Novena (La neuvaine) received eight nominations, including all the "Big Five" categories, with Élise Guilbault winning her second Best Actress award after The Woman Who Drinks (La femme qui boit).
The Rocket (Maurice Richard) also received a record fourteen nominations, including all the "Big Five" categories, but ended up losing in every category, making it the film with the most nominations to win no awards. However, director Charles Binamé won the award for Best Documentary in a tie with Sylvie Groulx, the second time a tie happened in this category. They respectively won for Gilles Carle: The Untamable Mind and La Classe de Madame Lise.
- ^ Matthew Hays, "C.R.A.Z.Y. sweeps Jutras, as expected". Playback, April 3, 2006.
- ^ Odile Tremblay, "Maurice Richard et C.R.A.Z.Y. dominent la course aux Jutra". Le Devoir, February 8, 2006.