‘Anora’ Leads Vancouver Film Critics Circle Nominations With Five Nods

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Sean Baker’s Anora leads the 2025 Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards nominations with five nods, including for best picture, best screenplay and best director, it was announced Monday.

Baker’s screwball comedy about a young sex worker’s romantic entanglement with the son of a Russian oligarch also earned a best female actor nod for Mikey Madison and a best supporting male actor nomination for Yuri Borisov. 

Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist earned nominations for best picture, best screenplay and best male actor for Adrien Brody. Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain will compete in the best picture, best screenplay and supporting male actor category with Kieran Culkin.

And director James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan biopic, received nominations for best male actor for Timothée Chalamet, best supporting male actor with Edward Norton and best supporting female actor with Monica Barbaro.

The Substance, from director Coralie Fargeat, earned a best female actor nomination for Demi Moore and a best supporting female actor nod for Margaret Qualley.

The winners of the 25th VFCC awards will be announced on Feb. 19 in Vancouver.

A full list of nominations follows:

Best Picture

Anora

The Brutalist

A Real Pain

Best Director

Sean Baker, Anora

RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys

Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two

Best Screenplay

Sean Baker, Anora

Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist

Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain

Best Male Actor

Adrien Brody, The Brutalist

Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown

Colman Domingo, Sing Sing

Best Female Actor

Mikey Madison, Anora

Demi Moore, The Substance

Saoirse Ronan, The Outrun

Best Supporting Male Actor

Yuri Borisov, Anora

Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain

Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown

Best Supporting Female Actor

Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown

Margaret Qualley, The Substance

Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Best Documentary

No Other Land

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Will & Harper

Best International Film in Non-English Language

All We Imagine as Light

Emilia Pérez

Flow

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