Sean Baker’s dramedy received five nominations, including Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay.

Anora will face The Brutalist, A Real Pain, and A Complete Unknown, with three nominations apiece.

Anora, the story of a sex worker fiercely standing for herself following an ill-advised relationship with the son of a Russian oligarch, received five nominations to the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards. The dramedy will compete in the Best Picture, Director (Sean Baker), Screenplay (by Baker), Female Actor (Mikey Madison), and Best Supporting Male Actor (Yuri Borisov). 

The film will be competing mainly against three films, each of them with three nominations: The Brutalist (Picture, Screenplay, Male Actor), A Real Pain (Picture, Screenplay, Supporting Male Actor), and A Complete Unknown (Male Actor, Supporting Male Actor, Supporting Female Actor).

The Substance scored two acting nominations: Best Female Actor (Demi Moore) and Best Supporting Female Actor (Margaret Qualley). This last category also includes Zoe Saldaña from Emilia Pérez, a film that will also be competing for Best International Film in Non-English Language award.

The Best Documentary nominees include two feel-good showbiz stories —Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, Will & Harper— and No Other Land, a film by an Israeli Palestinian collective about the destruction of Masafer Yatta in the West Bank.

The Best International Film in the Non-English Language category features the Latvian animation Flow, notable for its dialogue-free storytelling.

The winners will be announced at the 25^th VFCC Awards ceremony to take place on February 18^th at the VIFF Centre in Vancouver.

These are the nominees per category:

Best Picture

Anora

The Brutalist

A Real Pain

Best Director

Sean Baker, Anora

RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys

Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two

Best Screenplay

Sean Baker, Anora

Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist

Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain

Best Male Actor

Adrien Brody, The Brutalist

Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown

Colman Domingo, Sing Sing

Best Female Actor

Mikey Madison, Anora

Demi Moore, The Substance

Saoirse Ronan, The Outrun

Best Supporting Male Actor

Yuri Borisov, Anora

Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain

Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown

Best Supporting Female Actor

Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown

Margaret Qualley, The Substance

Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Best Documentary

No Other Land

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Will & Harper

Best International Film in Non-English Language

All We Imagine as Light

Emilia Pérez

Flow

Breakdown by total of nominations:

Anora: 5

The Brutalist: 3

A Complete Unknown: 3

A Real Pain: 3

Emilia Pérez: 2

The Substance: 2

Nickel Boys: 1

Dune: Part Two: 1 

Sing Sing: 1

The Outrun: 1

No Other Land: 1

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story: 1

Will & Harper: 1

All We Imagine as Light: 1

Flow: 1