Xavier Dolan's critically acclaimed Mommy collected six nominations from the Vancouver Film Critics Circle, leading the Canadian film nominees.

The dramatic feature will compete against Enemy and Tu dors, Nicole, two more films helmed by Quebec directors, Denis Villeneuve and Stéphane Lafleur respectively, who are also up for (along with Dolan) best director.

Mommy was Canada's entry for the best-foreign language film at the Oscars but it failed to make the short-list.

Vancouver-based filmmaker Andrew Huculiak's debut feature, Violent, garnered four nominations. The microbudget film was named the best B.C. film and best Canadian film at the 2014 Vancouver International Film Festival.

The film, shot in Norway, will compete against Jacob Tierney's Preggoland and Everything Will Be, Julia Kwan's documentary about Chinatown, for best British Columbian film. The latter will compete against the B.C.-made Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story and The Price We Pay for best Canadian documentary.

Several of these films will screen at Canada's Top Ten Film Festival, which runs from January 8 to 18 at the Cinematheque.

Meanwhile, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman led the nominees in the international categories with five nominations.

The film is up against the much-ballyhooed Boyhood by Richard Linklater and Damien Chazelle's Whiplash.

Linklater and González Iñárritu will compete with The Grand Budapest Hotel's Wes Anderson for the title of best director.

In the best foreign-language film category, two films from Sweden—Force Majeure and We Are the Best!—face off against Poland's Ida.

Best documentary nominees included Citizenfour, Virunga, and The Overnighters. Virunga, which was a Georgia Straight cover story, was named best feature documentary at Vancouver's DOXA Documentary Film Festival last year.

Veteran production manager Warren Carr will receive the Ian Caddell Award for Achievement. Vancouver-based Carr is a pioneer in producing Hollywood productions in Canada. The award, named after the Georgia Straight's late senior movies writer and VFCC cofounder, goes to a British Columbian who has made a significant contribution to the B.C. film industry.

The winners will be announced at a VFCC event on Monday (January 5).

Here is a list of the nominations:

CANADIAN CATGORIES

BEST CANADIAN FILM
Enemy
Mommy
Tu dors Nicole

BEST ACTOR IN A CANADIAN FILM
Jake Gyllenhaal, Enemy
Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, The Husband
Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Mommy

BEST ACTRESS IN A CANADIAN FILM
Julianne Côté, Tu dors Nicole
Anne Dorval, Mommy
Dagny Backer Johnsen, Violent

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A CANADIAN FILM
Bruce Greenwood, Elephant Song
Marc-André Grondin, Tu dors Nicole
Callum Keith Rennie, Sitting on the Edge of Marlene

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A CANADIAN FILM
Sarah Allen, The Husband
Suzanne Clément, Mommy
Sarah Gadon, Enemy

(A cash prize for the acting categories is sponsored by the Union of BC Performers.)

BEST SCREENPLAY FOR A CANADIAN FILM
Xavier Dolan, Mommy
Andrew Huculiak, Josh Huculiak, Cayne McKenzie & Joseph Schweers, Violent
Elan Mastai, The F Word

BEST DIRECTOR OF A CANADIAN FILM
Xavier Dolan, Mommy
Stéphane Lafleur, Tu dors Nicole
Denis Villeneuve, Enemy

BEST CANADIAN DOCUMENTARY
Everything Will Be
Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story
The Price We Pay

BEST FIRST FILM BY A CANADIAN DIRECTOR
Sitting on the Edge of Marlene
The Valley Below
Violent
(Cash prize sponsored by Telefilm Canada.)

BEST BRITISH COLUMBIA FILM
Everything Will Be
Preggoland
Violent
(Cash prizes sponsored by the Canadian Media Production Association-BC Producers’ Branch and the Director’s Guild of Canada-BC Council.)

INTERNATIONAL CATEGORIES

BEST FILM
Birdman
Boyhood
Whiplash

BEST ACTOR
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler
Michael Keaton, Birdman

BEST ACTRESS
Marion Cotillard, The Immigrant
Tilda Swinton, Only Lovers Left Alive
Reese Witherspoon, Wild

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Edward Norton, Birdman
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year
Laura Dern, Wild

BEST DIRECTOR
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Birdman
Richard Linklater, Boyhood

BEST SCREENPLAY
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris & Armando Bo, Birdman
Richard Linklater, Boyhood

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Force Majeure
Ida
We Are the Best!

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Citizenfour
The Overnighters
Virunga