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 12, 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/Turkey/Italy
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

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
Antoine L'Écuyer – It's Not Me, I Swear!
Jim Sturgess – Fifty Dead Men Walking
Best Actress: Marianne Fortier – Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's

Julianne Moore – Blindness
Preity Zinta – Heaven on Earth

Best British Columbia Film: Fifty Dead Men Walking

Best Director: Philippe Falardeau – It's Not Me, I Swear!
Atom Egoyan – Adoration
Deepa Mehta – Heaven on Earth
Best Film: It's Not Me, I Swear!
Heaven on Earth
The Necessities of Life
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!

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