ANORA EMERGES AS THE BIG WINNER AT THE VANCOUVER FILM CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS
Sean Baker’s film won the Best Picture and Best Female Actor categories. A Real Pain also received two awards: Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Male Actor.
Anora, the story of a sympathetic sex worker fighting tooth and nail to protect her happy-ever-after, emerged as the Best Picture winner at the 25th Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards. In addition, the film’s lead Mikey Madison won the award for Best Female Actor.
The event took place Tuesday evening at the VIFF Theatre. Sean Baker, who used to be a regular at this venue, sent a heartfelt acknowledgement video.
Anora’s fiercest competitor was A Real Pain. The dramedy about cousins reconnecting while following their grandmother’s Holocaust journey won two categories, Best Screenplay (Jesse Eisenberg) and Best Supporting Male Actor (Kieran Culkin).
A Complete Unknown emerged victorious in one of the three categories it was competing: Best Male Actor (Timothée Chalamet). Margaret Qualley was the surprising winner of the Best Supporting Female Actor award, while Flowtriumphed in the competitive Best International Film in Non-English Language category.
The harrowing documentary No Other Land collected another award by besting Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Storyand Will & Harper in the Best Documentary category.
Here’s the list of the VFCC awards’ winners:
BEST PICTURE: Anora
BEST DIRECTOR: Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two
BEST SCREENPLAY: Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
BEST MALE ACTOR: Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
BEST FEMALE ACTOR: Mikey Madison, Anora
BEST SUPPORTING MALE ACTOR: Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE ACTOR: Margaret Qualley, The Substance
BEST DOCUMENTARY: No Other Land
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM IN A NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE: Flow
By number of awards:
Anora: 2
A Real Pain: 2
A Complete Unknown: 1
Dune: Part Two: 1
Flow: 1
No Other Land: 1
The Substance: 1
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