THE ARTIST AND CAFÉ DE FLORE WIN BEST FILM AWARDS

Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist has won the Best Film award from the Vancouver Film Critics Circle. Jean-Marc Vallée’s Quebec film, Café de Flore, was the winner of the Best Canadian Film award. The VFCC awards were presented at a special ceremony at Vancouver’s Railway Club on Monday night, January 9, 2012.

Other major award winners in the international film category included Michael Fassbender of Shame, who won the Best Actor award and Martha Marcy May Marlene’s Elizabeth Olsen, who won the Best Actress award. Iran’s A Separation won the Best Foreign Language Film award while the Best Documentary award went to Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams.

Meanwhile, Peter Stormare won the Best Actor in a Canadian Film award for his performance in Ed Gass-Donnelly’s Small Town Murder Songs and Michelle Williams won the Best Actress in a Canadian Film award for Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz. The Best BC Film award went to Joel Heath’s People of a Feather, which chronicles the effect of hydroelectric dams on the culture of a community in Canada’s north.

The Vancouver Film Critics Circle includes critics from print, radio, on-line and television. The complete list of winners follows.

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VANCOUVER FILM CRITICS AWARDS FOR 2011

BEST FILM
The Artist

BEST ACTOR
Michael Fassbender, Shame

BEST ACTRESS
Elizabeth Olsen, Martha Marcy May Marlene

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christopher Plummer, Beginners

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain, The Tree of LIfe/Take Shelter/The Help

BEST DIRECTOR
Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Cave of Forgotten Dreams

BEST SCREENPLAY
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A Separation

BEST CANADIAN FILM
Café de flore

BEST ACTOR IN A CANADIAN FILM
Peter Stormare, Small Town Murder Songs

BEST ACTRESS IN A CANADIAN FILM
Michelle Williams, Take This Waltz

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A CANADIAN FILM
Viggo Mortensen, A Dangerous Method

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A CANADIAN FILM
Hélène Florent, Café de flore

BEST DIRECTOR OF A CANADIAN FILM
David Cronenberg, A Dangerous Method

BEST BRITISH COLUMBIA FILM
People of a Feather

ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR CONTRIBUTION TO THE BC FILM AND TELEVISION INDUSTRY
Marv Newland.

For further information, please contact Ian Caddell at 604-730-7022 or ianc@straight.com

www.vancouverfilmcritics.com

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