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
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 • Germany
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress: Rosemarie DeWitt – Rachel Getting Married
Best Actor: Natar Ungalaaq – The Necessities of Life
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
  • Edison and Leo
  • Stone of Destiny
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!