The Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards.

Here’s another one for the better-late-than-never file. Two nights ago, the Vancouver Film Critics Circle announced the winners of its tenth annual awards — has it been ten years already!? — and this year, it was my turn to announce who won Best Director.

In addition to the winners listed below, lifetime achievement awards were given to Nettie Wild, a documentary filmmaker who happens to be the subject of a career retrospective at the Pacific Cinematheque this coming weekend, and Leonard Schein, who founded the current version of the Vancouver International Film Festival some 28 years ago and currently runs the arthouse theatre chain Festival Cinemas.

And the nominees were (with winners in orange):

CANADIAN FILMS

BEST CANADIAN FILM
J’ai tué ma mère (I Killed My Mother)
Polytechnique
The Young Victoria

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A CANADIAN FILM
Xavier Dolan, J’ai tué ma mère (I Killed My Mother)
Sébastien Huberdeau, Polytechnique
Stephen McHattie, Pontypool

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A CANADIAN FILM
Emily Blunt, The Young Victoria
Anne Dorval, J’ai tué ma mère (I Killed My Mother)
Nisreen Faour, Amreeka

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A CANADIAN FILM
François Arnaud, J’ai tué ma mère (I Killed My Mother)
Daniel J. Gordon, Nurse.Fighter.Boy
John Paul Tremblay, Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A CANADIAN FILM
Lisa Houle, Pontypool
Miranda Richardson, The Young Victoria
Gabrielle Rose, Excited

BEST DIRECTOR OF A CANADIAN FILM
Cherien Dabis, Amreeka
Xavier Dolan, J’ai tué ma mère (I Killed My Mother)
Denis Villeneuve, Polytechnique

BEST BRITISH COLUMBIA FILM
A Shine of Rainbows
Excited
Facing Ali

INTERNATIONAL FILMS

BEST FILM
A Serious Man
The Hurt Locker
Up in the Air

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEAD ROLE
George Clooney, Up in the Air
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEAD ROLE
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Gabourey ‘Gabby’ Sidibe, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Alfred Molina, An Education
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
Mo’Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

BEST DIRECTOR
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

BEST SCREENPLAY
Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
The Cove
Food Inc.

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Broken Embraces, Spain
The Headless Woman, Argentina
Summer Hours, France

For what it’s worth, my own choices won in eight of the sixteen categories, but just to keep a little mystery, I won’t say which categories they were, or what I would have picked in them.