Anatomy of a Fall beats out Hollywood to take top honours at Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards
Sandra Hûller and Paul Giamatti score top acting awards
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The Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards (VFCC) has named Justine Triet’s mystery thriller Anatomy of a Fall as the Best Picture winner at the group’s annual awards recently.
The French film won the Cannes Palme d’Or award and is heading into the March 10 Academy Awards with five nominations. The courtroom drama’s star Sandra Hüller was also awarded the Best Female Actor crown by the VFCC.
Christopher Nolan picked up the Best Director honour for Oppenheimer, while his biopic about the man who invented the A-bomb earned the Best Supporting Actor prize for Robert Downey Jr.
The other multiple winner from the VFCC awards was Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, which on the acting front earned Paul Giamatti the Best Male Actor trophy and Da’Vine Joy Randolph the Best Supporting Female Actor honour.
Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest was named the Best International Film in a non-English category. The Best Screenplay trophy went to Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach for Barbie. The Best Documentary award was given to Nisha Pahuja’s Oscar-nominated film To Kill a Tiger.
In the VFCC’s Canadian awards category BlackBerry and Seagrass cleaned up.
Matt Johnson’s BlackBerry, the fictionalized retelling of the rise and fall of the Canadian startup, won all five categories it was nominated for: Best Picture, Director (Johnson), Screenplay (Johnson and Matthew Miller), Male Actor (Jay Baruchel) and Supporting Male Actor (Glenn Howerton).
The family drama Seagrass was named Best B.C. Film, and its director Meredith Hama-Brown won the Best Director award.
Winning the Best Female Actor in a Canadian film was Sara Montpetit for Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person. The Best Supporting Female Actor prize went to Nyha Huang Breitkreuz for Seagrass.
Topping the Best Documentary category was Satan Wants You.
Director Ariana Louis-Seize (Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person) received the TELEFILM-Canada One to Watch award.
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