David Fincher’s Mank leads the Vancouver Film Critics Circle (VFCC) nominations for Best in International Film, which were announced February 20.
The biographical drama about Herman J. Mankiewicz and the development of the script for Citizen Kane received five nominations, including Best Picture, Director (David Fincher), Screenplay (Jack Fincher), Actor (Gary Oldman) and Supporting Actress (Amanda Seyfried).
With three nominations apiece, Nomadland (Picture, Director, Actress) and Promising Young Woman (Picture, Screenplay, Actress) will also vie for the same awards.
In the Best Foreign Language Film category, Another Round, Dear Comrades! and Minari are in consideration for the award.Another Round’s helmer Thomas Vinterberg will also compete in the Best Director section, while Minari’s Yuh-jung Youn will do the same in the Best Supporting Actress category.
The winners of the VFCC International awards and Canadian awards (nominations listed below) will be announced on Monday, February 22. A virtual ceremony will take place on Monday, March 8.
Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.
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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.