Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite leads all films in the Vancouver Film Critics Circle’s international section with six nominations, and Katherine Jerkovic’s Roads in February leads all films in the Vancouver Film Critics’ Circles’ Canadian section with six nominations.
In the international section, Lanthimos’ delectable bodice ripper shares the Best Picture category with First Reformed, Paul Schrader’s pointed diagnosis of our ill-stricken times, and Alfonso Cuarón’s technically virtuosic and emotionally devastating Roma; Lanthimos, Schrader and Cuarón also assume their respective places in the Best Director category.
Burning, Roma and Shoplifters are up for Best Foreign Language Film, while Free Solo, Minding the Gap and Won’t You Be my Neighbor? are nominated for Best Documentary.
In the Canadian section, a wistful story about a young woman returning home to Uruguay after more than a decade away, Roads in February is nominated for Best Picture alongside Fausto, Andrea Bussmann’s loose adaptation of Goethe’s version of the Faust legend, and Edge of the Knife, co-directors Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown’s 19th century epic, scripted entirely in two endangered Haida dialects (of which there are only 20-odd fluent speakers remaining). Jerkovic, Bussmann and Edenshaw and Haig-Brown are all nominated for Best Director, where they are joined by Philippe Lesage for Genesis.
The Best Canadian Documentary nominees are ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch, The Museum of Forgotten Triumphs, and What Is Democracy?
2018 Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards Nominations – International
Best Picture
The Favourite
First Reformed
Roma
Best Actor, Male
Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
Viggo Mortensen, Green Book
Christian Bale, Vice
Best Actor, Female
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Regina Hall, Support the Girls
Best Supporting Actor, Male
Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Peter Bogdanovich, The Other Side of the Wind
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Steven Yeun, Burning
Best Supporting Actor, Female
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Claire Foy, First Man
Best Director
Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite
Paul Schrader, First Reformed
Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
Best Screenplay
Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade
Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, The Favourite
Paul Schrader, First Reformed
Best Foreign Language Film
Burning
Roma
Shoplifters
Best Documentary
Free Solo
Minding the Gap
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
2018 Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards Nominations – Canadian
Best Picture
Edge of the Knife
Fausto
Roads in February
Best Director
Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown, Edge of the Knife
Andrea Bussmann, Fausto
Philippe Lesage, Genesis
Katherine Jerkovic, Roads in February
One to Watch
Akash Sherman, Clara
Jasmin Mozaffari, Firecrackers
Drew Lint, M/M
Katherine Jerkovic, Roads in February
Best Screenplay
Keith Behrman, Giant Little Ones
Zebulon Zang, N.O.N.
Katherine Jerkovic, Roads in February
Best Actor, Male
Tyler York, Edge of the Knife
Théodore Pellerin, Genesis
Josh Wiggins, Giant Little Ones
Best Actor, Female
Troian Bellisario, Clara
Michaela Kurimsky, Firecrackers
Arlen Aguayo Stewart, Roads in February
Jennifer Hardy, Spice It Up
Best Supporting Actor, Male
William Russ, Edge of the Knife
Pierre-Luc Brillant, The Fireflies Are Gone
Aaron Read, When the Storm Fades
Best Supporting Actor, Female
Gabrielle Rose, Kingsway
Gloria Demassi, Roads in February
Kayla Lorette, When the Storm Fades
Best Canadian Documentary
ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch
The Museum of Forgotten Triumphs
What Is Democracy?
Best BC Film
Edge of the Knife
N.O.N
This Mountain Life
When the Storm Fades
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