Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor

The Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor is an annual award given by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle.

Winners

2000s

Year	Winner and nominees	Film	Role	Ref
2000	Benicio del Toro	Traffic	Javier Rodriguez
	Mark Ruffalo	You Can Count on Me	Terry Prescott
	Billy Crudup	Jesus' Son	FH
		Almost Famous	Russell Hammond
2001	Steve Buscemi	Ghost World	Seymour
	Russell Crowe	A Beautiful Mind	John Nash
	Tom Wilkinson	In the Bedroom	Matt Fowler
2002	Daniel Day-Lewis	Gangs of New York	William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting
	Adrien Brody	The Pianist	Władysław Szpilman
	Nicolas Cage	Adaptation.	Charlie and Donald Kaufman
2003	Sean Penn	Mystic River	Jimmy Markum
	Ben Kingsley	House of Sand and Fog	Behrani
	Bill Murray	Lost in Translation	Bob Harris
2004	Jamie Foxx	Ray	Ray Charles
	Paul Giamatti	Sideways	Miles Raymond
	Liam Neeson	Kinsey	Alfred Kinsey
2005	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Capote	Truman Capote
	Terrence Howard	Hustle & Flow	Djay
	Heath Ledger	Brokeback Mountain	Ennis Del Mar
2006	Forest Whitaker	The Last King of Scotland	Idi Amin
	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Departed	William "Billy" Costigan Jr.
	Ryan Gosling	Half Nelson	Dan Dunne
2007	Daniel Day-Lewis	There Will Be Blood	Daniel Plainview
	Emile Hirsch	Into the Wild	Christopher McCandless
	Viggo Mortensen	Eastern Promises	Nikolai Luzhin
2008	Sean Penn	Milk	Harvey Milk
	Frank Langella	Frost/Nixon	Richard Nixon
	Mickey Rourke	The Wrestler	Randy Robinson
2009	Colin Firth	A Single Man	George Falconer
	George Clooney	Up in the Air	Ryan Bingham
	Jeremy Renner	The Hurt Locker	SFC. William James

2010s

Year	Winner and nominees	Film	Role	Ref
2010	Colin Firth	The King's Speech	King George VI
	Jesse Eisenberg	The Social Network	Mark Zuckerberg
	James Franco	127 Hours	Aron Ralston
2011	Michael Fassbender	Shame	Brandon Sullivan
	Jean Dujardin	The Artist	George Valentin
	Michael Shannon	Take Shelter	Curtis LaForche
2012	Joaquin Phoenix	The Master	Freddie Quell
	John Hawkes	The Sessions	Mark O'Brian
	Daniel Day-Lewis	Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln
2013	Oscar Isaac	Inside Llewyn Davis	Llewyn Davis
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	12 Years a Slave	Solomon Northup
	Matthew McConaughey	Dallas Buyers Club	Ron Woodroof
2014	Jake Gyllenhaal	Nightcrawler	Lou Bloom
	Benedict Cumberbatch	The Imitation Game	Alan Turing
	Michael Keaton	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Riggan Thomson
2015	Michael Fassbender	Steve Jobs	Steve Jobs
	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Revenant	Hugh Glass
	Eddie Redmayne	The Danish Girl	Lili Elbe
2016	Casey Affleck	Manchester by the Sea	Lee Chandler
	Ryan Gosling	La La Land	Sebastian Wilder
	Denzel Washington	Fences	Troy Maxson
2017	Daniel Day-Lewis	Phantom Thread	Reynolds Woodcock
	Timothée Chalamet	Call Me by Your Name	Elio Perlman
	Gary Oldman	Darkest Hour	Winston Churchill
2018	Ethan Hawke	First Reformed	Ernst Toller
	Christian Bale	Vice	Dick Cheney
	Viggo Mortensen	Green Book	Tony Lip
2019	Adam Driver	Marriage Story	Charlie Barber
	Antonio Banderas	Pain and Glory	Salvador Mallo
	Joaquin Phoenix	Joker	The Joker

2020s

Year	Winner and nominees	Film	Role	Ref
2020	Chadwick Boseman	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Levee Green	[1]
	Riz Ahmed	Sound of Metal	Ruben Stone	[2]
	Anthony Hopkins	The Father	Anthony
	Gary Oldman	Mank	Herman J. Mankiewicz
2021	Andrew Garfield	Tick, Tick... Boom!	Jonathan Larson	[3]
	Bradley Cooper	Nightmare Alley	Stan Carlisle	[4]
	Denzel Washington	The Tragedy of Macbeth	Lord Macbeth
2022	Colin Farrell	The Banshees of Inisherin	Pádraic Súilleabháin	[5]
	Austin Butler	Elvis	Elvis Presley	[6]
	Paul Mescal	Aftersun	Calum
2023	Paul Giamatti	The Holdovers	Paul Hunham	[7]
	Bradley Cooper	Maestro	Leonard Bernstein	[8]
	Cillian Murphy	Oppenheimer	J. Robert Oppenheimer
2024	Timothée Chalamet	A Complete Unknown	Bob Dylan	[9]
	Adrien Brody	The Brutalist	László Tóth	[10]
	Colman Domingo	Sing Sing	John "Divine G" Whitfield

References

1. Etan Vlessing, "Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Named Best Feature by Vancouver Film Critics Circle". The Hollywood Reporter , February 22, 2021.
2. Vlessing, Etan (February 22, 2021). "Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Named Best Feature by Vancouver Film Critics Circle". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved February 23, 2021.
3. Dana Gee, "The Power of the Dog named year's best feature by Vancouver Film Critics Circle". Vancouver Sun , March 8, 2022.
4. Dana Gee, "The Power of the Dog, Night Raiders lead Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards nominations". Vancouver Sun , February 20, 2022.
5. Vlessing, Etan (February 13, 2023). "'Everything Everywhere All at Once' Named Best Feature by Vancouver Film Critics". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved February 13, 2023.
6. "Vancouver Film Critics Announce Nominees". Northern Stars. January 23, 2023. Retrieved January 23, 2023.
7. Gee, Dana (February 13, 2024). "'Anatomy of a Fall' beats out Hollywood to take top honours at Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards". Vancouver Sun . Retrieved February 13, 2024.
8. Vlessing, Etan (January 22, 2024). "'Oppenheimer' Leads Vancouver Film Critics Circle Nominations With Six Nods". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved January 23, 2024.
9. Dana Gee, "Oscar favourite Anora wins best international honour from Vancouver Film Critics Circle". Vancouver Sun , February 19, 2025.
10. Erik Anderson, "2024 Vancouver Film Critics Circle (VFCC) Nominations". Awards Watch, January 21, 2025.