Vancouver Critics Circle nominations: ‘The Power of the Dog’ leads with five

The Vancouver Film Critics Circle has revealed its nominations and Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog leads the field with five mentions, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (both Kodi Smit-McPhee and Jesse Plemons) and Best Supporting Actress (Kirsten Dunst).

Dog‘s Lead actor Benedict Cumberbatch missed out on the group’s Best Actor list of three that consisted of Bradley Cooper in Nightmare Alley, Andrew Garfield for tick, tick…BOOM! and Denzel Washington for The Tragedy of Macbeth.

The Best Actress contenders are Jessica Chastain for The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Olivia Colman for The Lost Daughter and Renate Reinsve for The Worst Person in the World. Bradley Cooper earned a second nomination, in supporting for Licorice Pizza, where he was joined by CODA‘s Troy Kotsur, whose film is also Best Picture-nominated. Supporting Actress joining Dunst were Ann Dowd in Mass and Jessie Buckley in The Lost Daughter.

Belfast was a triple nominee, nodded in Best Picture, Director and Screenplay and The Lost Daughter was also nominated for Screenplay as its third mention.

The winners of the Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards, international section will be announced during the VFCC awards ceremony on March 7. Here is the full list of nominations.

Best Picture
Belfast
CODA
The Power of the Dog

Best Director
Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Denis Villeneuve, Dune

Best Screenplay
Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter
Adam McKay and David Sirota, Don’t Look Up

Best Actor
Andrew Garfield, tick, tick… BOOM!
Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth
Bradley Cooper, Nightmare Alley

Best Actress
Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World

Best Supporting Actor
Bradley Cooper, Licorice Pizza
Troy Kotsur, CODA
Jesse Plemons, The Power of the Dog
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog

Best Supporting Actress
Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Ann Dowd, Mass
Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog

Best Documentary
Flee
The Sparks Brothers
Summer of Soul

Best Foreign Language Film
Flee
Riders of Justice
The Worst Person in the World

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