The Artist leads the Vancouver Film Critics

BEST FILM
The Artist
The Descendants
The Tree of Life

BEST ACTOR
Michael Fassbender, Shame 
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Michael Shannon, Take Shelter

BEST ACTRESS
Elizabeth Olsen, Martha Marcy May Marlene
Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Kenneth Branagh, My Week with Marilyn
Albert Brooks, Drive
Christopher Plummer, Beginners

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids
Jessica Chastain, The Tree of Life
Shailene Woodley, The Descendants

BEST DIRECTOR
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Terence Malick, The Tree of Life
Martin Scorsese, Hugo

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
The Interrupters
Nostalgia for the Light
Project Nim
Surviving Progress

BEST SCREENPLAY
Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash, The Descendants
Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, Moneyball

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A Separation
Poetry
The Kid with a Bike