Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2008
The winners of the 9th Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2008, were announced on January 13, 2009.

Winners and nominees

International
Best Actor: Sean Penn – Milk
Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
Best Actress: Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road and The Reader
Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
Meryl Streep – Doubt
Best Director: David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
Gus Van Sant – Milk
Best Film: Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Best Foreign Language Film: The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite) • Germany
Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) • Sweden
Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne)  • France
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight (posthumous)
Josh Brolin – Milk
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
Best Supporting Actress: Rosemarie DeWitt – Rachel Getting Married
Viola Davis – Doubt
Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler

Canadian
Best Actor: Natar Ungalaaq – The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre)
Antoine L'Écuyer – It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, je le jure!)
Jim Sturgess – Fifty Dead Men Walking
Best Actress: Marianne Fortier – Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (Maman est chez le coiffeur)Julianne Moore – Blindness
Preity Zinta – Heaven on Earth
Best British Columbia Film: Fifty Dead Men WalkingEdison and Leo
Stone of Destiny
Best Director: Philippe Falardeau – It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, je le jure!)Atom Egoyan – Adoration
Deepa Mehta – Heaven on Earth
Best Film: It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, je le jure!)Heaven on Earth
The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre)
Best Supporting Actor: Randy Quaid – Real TimeGael García Bernal – Blindness
Mark Ruffalo – Blindness
Best Supporting Actress: Suzanne Clément – It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, je le jure!)'Maya Ritter – Finn's GirlJayne Eastwood – Real Time''