The Power of the Dog Named Best Picture by Vancouver Film Critics Circle

Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog has been named Best Picture by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle. Elsewhere, Denis Villeneuve won Best Director for Dune, Adam McKay and David Sirota were awarded Best Screenplay for Don’t Look Up, and Andrew Garfield (tick, tick…BOOM!), Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter), Troy Kotsur (CODA), and Ann Dowd (Mass) walked away with the acting prizes.

Winners in bold below.

Best Picture
Belfast
CODA
The Power of the Dog

Best Director
Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Denis Villeneuve, Dune

Best Screenplay
Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter
Adam McKay and David Sirota, Don’t Look Up

Best Actor
Andrew Garfield, tick, tick… BOOM!
Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth
Bradley Cooper, Nightmare Alley

Best Actress
Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World

Best Supporting Actor
Bradley Cooper, Licorice Pizza
Troy Kotsur, CODA
Jesse Plemons, The Power of the Dog
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog

Best Supporting Actress
Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Ann Dowd, Mass
Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog

Best Documentary
Flee
The Sparks Brothers
Summer of Soul

Best Foreign Language Film
Flee
Riders of Justice
The Worst Person in the World

Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.