Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2008

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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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