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Vancouver film critics have made their selections for the year’s best films. Two things always to note about Vancouver. They are the only group that only selects three nominees in each category (excepting this year’s Best British Columbian Film) and they are the only group that actively recognizes Canadian-only films with a full slate of nominations. Looking over the list, it’s interesting to compare Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. Picture and Director match perfectly, but only one film appears in the Screenplay set from that list. That likely suggests that Lady Bird, which is also he top non-Canadian nominee, will take the award. Everyone else appears to be a contender in some capacity or another.

Award Tallies

(6) Gregoire (Canadian)
(5) Lady Bird, Never Steady, Never Still (Canadian)
(4) Phantom Thread
(3) Fail to Appear (Canadian), Fake Tattoos, (Canadian), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

The Awards

Best Picture

Dunkirk
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread

Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson – Phantom Thread
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk

Best Actor

Timothรฉe Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour

Best Actress

Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird

Best Supporting Actor

Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
Armie Hammer – Call Me By Your Name
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Supporting Actress

Allison Janney – I, Tonya
Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird

Best Screenplay

Get Out
Lady Bird
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Foreign Language Film

BPM (Beats Per Minute)
A Fantastic Woman
The Square

Best Documentary

Ex-Libris: The New York Public Library
Faces Places
Jane

Best Canadian Film

Black Cop
Fail to Appear
Never Steady, Never Still

Best Director of a Canadian Film

Sofia Bohdanowicz – Maison du bonheur
Denis Cรดtรฉ – A Skin So Soft
Kathleen Hepburn – Never Steady, Never Still

Best Actor in a Canadian Film

Jared Abrahamson – Gregoire
Ronnie Rowe – Black Cop
Anthony Therrien – Fake Tattoos

Best Actress in a Canadian Film

Deragh Campbell – Fail to Appear
Shirley Henderson – Never Steady, Never Still
Rose-Marie Perreault – Fake Tattoos

Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film

Joe Buffalo – Lukโ€™Lukโ€™I
Ben Cotton – Gregoire
Nathan Roder – Fail to Appear

Best Supporting Actress in a Canadian Film

Morgan Taylor Campbell – Gregoire
Grace Glowicki – Cardinals
Yaitรฉ Ruiz – All You Can Eat Buddha

Best Screenplay for a Canadian Film

Fake Tattoos
Gregoire
Never Steady, Never Still

Best Canadian Documentary

In the Waves
Maison du bonheur
A Skin so Soft
Unarmed Verses

Best British Columbia Film

Gregoire
Never Steady, Never Still
The Road Forward
Lukโ€™Lukโ€™I

One to Watch

Cody Bown – Gregoire
Winston DeGiobbi – Mass for Shut-Ins
Seth A. Smith – The Crescent

Vancouver Film Critics Circle Data

First Awards: 2000 (18)

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