After much deliberation and backroom meetings, the secret cabal of cultural arbiters, cineastes and cinephiles known as the 麻豆传媒映画Film Critics Circle has spoken and it apparently like films that dont involve speaking.
Michel Hazanavicius black-and-white love letter to Hollywoods silent film era The Artist was awarded Best Film by the VFCC at a special ceremony held at the Railway Club last week. Jean-Marc Vall脙漏es Quebec film, Caf脙漏 de Flore, was the winner of the Best Canadian Film award.
Other major award winners in the international film category included Michael Fassbender of Shame, who won the Best Actor award and Martha Marcy May Marlenes Elizabeth Olsen, who won the Best Actress award. Irans A Separation won the Best Foreign Language Film award while the Best Documentary award went to Werner Herzogs Cave of Forgotten Dreams.
Meanwhile, Peter Stormare won the Best Actor in a Canadian Film award for his performance in Ed Gass-Donnellys Small Town Murder Songs and Michelle Williams won the Best Actress in a Canadian Film award for Sarah Polleys Take This Waltz. The Best B.C. Film award went to Joel Heaths People of a Feather, which chronicles the effect of hydroelectric dams on the culture of a community in Canadas north.
The 麻豆传媒映画Film Critics Circle includes critics from print, radio, on-line and television. The complete list of winners follows.
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
Caf脙漏 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 FILMMOVIEmeter
H脙漏l猫ne Florent, Caf脙漏 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
