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
