25th VFCC Awards February 18, 2025

Best International Picture: Anora

Best Canadian Picture: My Old Ass

The 25th Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards were presented on February 18, 2025, to honour the films selected by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle as the best of 2024.

The nominations were announced on January 20, 2025; the organization limited their number of nominees per category to three. For the international categories, Anora led the nominees with five, followed by The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown and A Real Pain with three nominations each. In the Canadian focused categories, Can I Get a Witness? led with eight nominations, followed by My Old Ass with seven.

Anora and A Real Pain won the most international awards with two each; the former won Best Picture. Can I Get a Witness? won the most Canadian awards with five, though My Old Ass won Best Picture.

Winners and nominees

International Best Picture Best Director Anora The Brutalist A Real Pain Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two Sean Baker – Anora RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys Best Male Actor Best Female Actor Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown as Bob Dylan Adrien Brody – The Brutalist as László Tóth Colman Domingo – Sing Sing as John "Divine G" Whitfield Mikey Madison – Anora as Anora "Ani" Mikheeva Demi Moore – The Substance as Elisabeth Sparkle Saoirse Ronan – The Outrun as Rona Best Supporting Male Actor Best Supporting Female Actor Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain as Benji Kaplan Yura Borisov – Anora as Igor Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown as Pete Seeger Margaret Qualley – The Substance as Sue Monica Barbaro – A Complete Unknown as Joan Baez Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez as Rita Mora Castro Best Screenplay Best Documentary Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain Sean Baker – Anora Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold – The Brutalist No Other Land – Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story – Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui Will & Harper – Josh Greenbaum Best International Film in Non-English Language Flow – Gints Zilbalodis All We Imagine as Light – Payal Kapadia Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard

Canadian Best Picture Best Director My Old Ass 40 Acres Can I Get a Witness? Rumours Ann Marie Fleming – Can I Get a Witness? Megan Park – My Old Ass R. T. Thorne – 40 Acres Best Male Actor Best Female Actor Matt Johnson – Matt and Mara as Matt Roy Dupuis – Rumours as Maxime Laplace Jae-Hyun Kim – Mongrels as Sonny Maisy Stella – My Old Ass as Elliott LaBrant Deragh Campbell – Matt and Mara as Mara Amy Forsyth – Inedia as Cora Keira Jang – Can I Get a Witness? as Kiah Best Supporting Male Actor Best Supporting Female Actor Patrick J. Adams – Young Werther as Albert Kataem O'Connor – 40 Acres as Emanuel Freeman Percy Hynes White – My Old Ass as Chad Sandra Oh – Can I Get a Witness? as Ellie Alison Pill – Young Werther as Charlotte Aubrey Plaza – My Old Ass as older Elliott LaBrant Best Screenplay Best Canadian Documentary Megan Park – My Old Ass Ann Marie Fleming – Can I Get a Witness? Matthew Rankin – Universal Language Sugarcane – Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story – Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee Ari's Theme – Nathan Drillot and Jeff Lee Petry Blue Rodeo: Lost Together – Dale Heslip The Movie Man – Matt Finlin |- ! style="background:#B0C4DE; width: 50%"| Best BC Film ! style="background:#B0C4DE; width: 50%"| Best BC Director |- | valign="top" | Can I Get a Witness? Ari's Theme The Chef and the Daruma Ann Marie Fleming – Can I Get a Witness? Liz Cairns – Inedia Jerome Yoo – Mongrels One to Watch Keira Jang – Can I Get a Witness? Megan Park – My Old Ass Jerome Yoo – Mongrels

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