Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards - 2006 Winners
January 16th, 2007 by Andre Soares
The Vancouver Film Critics Circle has picked its 2006 winners, which were announced yesterday.
Among them are Children of Men as best film — the second time a North American critics’ group has chosen Alfonso Cuarón’s dystopic drama as the top picture of 2006 (the Central Ohio film critics also went for it) — Cuarón as best director, and veteran Alan Arkin as best supporting actor for his bigoted, drug-addicted, but oh-so-loving grandpa in Little Miss Sunshine.
In the Canadian film categories Maurice Richard / The Rocket, a Quebecois production about the 20th-century Francophone hockey player (played by Roy Dupuis) struggling in a mostly Anglophone hockey world, was chosen best film, though Reg Harkema was picked as best director for Monkey Warfare, a socio-psychological comedy about two down-and-out, middle-aged bohemians who are befriended by a fiery young woman.
Monkey Warfare also came out on top in two other categories, Don McKellar (best actor in a Canadian film) and Nadia Litz (best supporting actress in a Canadian film).
Julie Christie, one of this blogger’s top performers, was one of the nominees in the best actress in a Canadian film category for her role as a woman losing her mind to Alzheimer’s in Sarah Polley’s well-received feature-film debut Away from Her. (The film opens in the U.S. in the spring. Also, see Julie Christie Observed.) The winner, however, was Carrie-Anne Moss, playing the mother of a boy whose best friend is a human-eating zombie in Fido, a comedy thriller that was also voted best film made in British Columbia.
Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren took best acting honors for, respectively, The Last King of Scotland and The Queen. Cate Blanchett was best supporting actress for Notes on a Scandal.
And finally, a North American critics’ group has had the good sense to pick Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver as the best foreign-language film of the year.
Full list of 2006 Vancouver Film Critics Circle winners and nominees
Full list of 2006 Genie Award nominations
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards - 2006 Winners
Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards - 2006 Winners
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - 2006 Winners
Genie Awards - 2007 Nominations
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