Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2008
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
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