While much critical acclaim has been heaped upon Xavier Dolan's tour-de-force Mommy, another Quebec film matched it with wins at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards on January 5.

Stéphane Lafleur's coming-of-age tale, Tu dors Nicole, won three VFCC awards, including best film, best actress (Julianne Côté), and best supporting actor (Marc-André Grondin) in the Canadian categories. (The film plays at Vancity Theatre on Thursday [January 8] and at the Cinematheque on Friday [January 9].)

Meanwhile, Mommy, which led the nominees with six nominations, collected awards for best actor (Antoine-Olivier Pilon), best supporting actress (Suzanne Clément), and best screenplay.

Both Dolan and Lafleur were beaten by Denis Villeneuve (Enemy) for best Canadian director.

Harold Crooks' The Price We Pay, about corporate tax-dodging, was named best Canadian documentary.

Andrew Huculiak's Violent, which won best B.C. film and best Canadian film awards at the 2014 Vancouver International Film Festival, was named best first film by a Canadian director and best B.C. film. The film plays on Saturday (January 10) as part of Canada's Top Ten Film Festival at the Cinematheque.

In international categories, Richard Linklater's Boyhood was crowned best film of the year while Alejandro González Iñárritu was named best director for Birdman.

Sweden's Force Majeure, a dark comedy about what happens when a family faces a close call with a controlled avalanche, was named best foreign-language film while The Overnighters, about an influx of transients drawn to a small town amid an oil boom, was named best documentary.

Here's a list of the winners:

CANADIAN AWARDS

BEST CANADIAN FILM
Tu dors Nicole

BEST ACTOR IN A CANADIAN FILM
Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Mommy

BEST ACTRESS IN A CANADIAN FILM
Julianne Côté, Tu dors Nicole
($500 cash prize sponsored by the Union of BC Performers)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A CANADIAN FILM
Marc-André Grondin, Tu dors Nicole

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A CANADIAN FILM
Suzanne Clément, Mommy

BEST SCREENPLAY FOR A CANADIAN FILM
Xavier Dolan, Mommy

BEST DIRECTOR OF A CANADIAN FILM
Denis Villeneuve, Enemy

BEST CANADIAN DOCUMENTARY
The Price We Pay

BEST FIRST FILM BY A CANADIAN DIRECTOR
Violent
($250 cash prize sponsored by Telefilm Canada)

BEST BRITISH COLUMBIA FILM
Violent
(Two $500 cash prizes sponsored by the Canadian Media Production Association-BC Producers’ Branch and the Director’s Guild of Canada-BC Council)

IAN CADDELL AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT
Warren Carr

INTERNATIONAL AWARDS

BEST FILM
Boyhood

BEST ACTOR
Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler

BEST ACTRESS
Tilda Swinton, Only Lovers Left Alive

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood

BEST DIRECTOR
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Birdman

BEST SCREENPLAY
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Force Majeure

BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Overnighters