Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2008 Explained

The winners of the 9th Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2008, were announced on January 13, 2009.

Winners and nominees

International

Best Actor: Sean Penn – Milk

• Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
• Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler

Best Actress: Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road and The Reader

• Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
• Meryl Streep – Doubt

Best Director: David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

• Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
• Gus Van Sant – Milk

Best Film: Milk

• Slumdog Millionaire
• WALL-E

Best Foreign Language Film: The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite) • Germany

• Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) • Sweden
• Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne) • France

Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight (posthumous)

• Josh Brolin – Milk
• Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt

Best Supporting Actress: Rosemarie DeWitt – Rachel Getting Married

• Viola Davis – Doubt
• Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler

Canadian

Best Actor: Natar Ungalaaq – The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre)

• Antoine L'Écuyer – It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, je le jure!)
• Jim Sturgess – Fifty Dead Men Walking

Best Actress: Marianne Fortier – Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (Maman est chez le coiffeur)

• Julianne Moore – Blindness
• Preity Zinta – Heaven on Earth

Best British Columbia Film: Fifty Dead Men Walking

• Edison and Leo
• Stone of Destiny

Best Director: Philippe Falardeau – It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, je le jure!)

• Atom Egoyan – Adoration
• Deepa Mehta – Heaven on Earth

Best Film: It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, je le jure!)

• Heaven on Earth
• The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre)

Best Supporting Actor: Randy Quaid – Real Time

• Gael García Bernal – Blindness
• Mark Ruffalo – Blindness

Best Supporting Actress: Suzanne Clément – It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, je le jure!)

• Maya Ritter – Finn's Girl
• Jayne Eastwood – Real Time