Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2008

Best Actor: Sean Penn – Milk^[1]

• Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon ^{[citation needed]}
• Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler ^{[citation needed]}

Best Actress: Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road and The Reader^[1]

• Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky ^{[citation needed]}
• Meryl Streep – Doubt ^{[citation needed]}

Best Director: David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button^[1]

• Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire ^{[citation needed]}
• Gus Van Sant – Milk ^{[citation needed]}

Best Film: Milk^[1]

• Slumdog Millionaire ^{[citation needed]}
• WALL-E ^{[citation needed]}

Best Foreign Language Film: The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite) • Germany/Turkey/Italy^[1]

• Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) • Sweden ^{[citation needed]}
• Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne) • France ^{[citation needed]}

Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight (posthumous)^[1]

• Josh Brolin – Milk ^{[citation needed]}
• Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt ^{[citation needed]}

Best Supporting Actress: Rosemarie DeWitt – Rachel Getting Married^[1]

• Viola Davis – Doubt ^{[citation needed]}
• Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler ^{[citation needed]}

Best Actor: Natar Ungalaaq – The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre)^[1]

• Antoine L'Écuyer – It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, je le jure!) ^{[citation needed]}
• Jim Sturgess – Fifty Dead Men Walking ^{[citation needed]}

Best Actress: Marianne Fortier – Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (Maman est chez le coiffeur)^[1]

• Julianne Moore – Blindness ^{[citation needed]}
• Preity Zinta – Heaven on Earth ^{[citation needed]}

Best British Columbia Film: Fifty Dead Men Walking^[1]

• Edison and Leo ^{[citation needed]}
• Stone of Destiny ^{[citation needed]}

Best Director: Philippe Falardeau – It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, je le jure!)^[1]

• Atom Egoyan – Adoration ^{[citation needed]}
• Deepa Mehta – Heaven on Earth ^{[citation needed]}

Best Film: It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, je le jure!)^[1]

• Heaven on Earth ^{[citation needed]}
• The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre) ^{[citation needed]}

Best Supporting Actor: Randy Quaid – Real Time^[1]

• Gael García Bernal – Blindness ^{[citation needed]}
• Mark Ruffalo – Blindness ^{[citation needed]}

Best Supporting Actress: Suzanne Clément – It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, je le jure!)^[1]

• Maya Ritter – Finn's Girl ^{[citation needed]}
• Jayne Eastwood – Real Time ^{[citation needed]}