Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best British Columbia Film

The Vancouver Film Critics Circle presents an award for Best British Columbia Film as part of its annual critics awards program, honouring the best films made within the Canadian province of British Columbia within the previous year.

Winners

2000s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Ref.
2005	It's All Gone Pete Tong	Michael Dowse	[1]
	Eve and the Fire Horse	Julia Kwan	[2]
	A Simple Curve	Aubrey Nealon
2006	Fido	Andrew Currie	[3]
	Everything's Gone Green	Paul Fox	[4]
	Mount Pleasant	Ross Weber
	Unnatural & Accidental	Carl Bessai
2007	American Venus	Bruce Sweeney	[5]
	Confessions of an Innocent Man	David Paperny	[6]
	The Union: The Business Behind Getting High	Brett Harvey
2008	Fifty Dead Men Walking	Kari Skogland	[7]
	Edison and Leo	Neil Burns	[8]
	Stone of Destiny	Charles Martin Smith
2009	Facing Ali	Pete McCormack	[9]
	Excited	Bruce Sweeney	[10]
	A Shine of Rainbows	Vic Sarin

2010s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Ref.
2010	Fathers & Sons	Carl Bessai	[11]
	Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie	Sturla Gunnarsson	[12]
	Mighty Jerome	Charles Officer
2011	People of a Feather	Joel Heath	[13]
	Daydream Nation	Michael Goldbach	[14]
	Sisters & Brothers	Carl Bessai
2012	Beyond the Black Rainbow	Panos Cosmatos	[15]
	Becoming Redwood	Jesse James Miller	[16]
	Camera Shy	Mark Sawers
	Random Acts of Romance	Katrin Bowen
2013	Down River	Benjamin Ratner	[17]
	Oil Sands Karaoke	Charles Wilkinson	[18]
	When I Walk	Jason DaSilva
2014	Violent	Andrew Huculiak	[19]
	Everything Will Be	Julia Kwan	[20]
	Preggoland	Jacob Tierney
2015	Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World	Charles Wilkinson	[21]
	Eadweard	Josh Epstein, Kyle Rideout	[22]
	No Men Beyond This Point	Mark Sawers
2016	Hello Destroyer	Kevan Funk	[23]
	Aim for the Roses	John Bolton	[24]
	Koneline: Our Land Beautiful	Nettie Wild
	Window Horses	Ann Marie Fleming
2017	Never Steady, Never Still	Kathleen Hepburn	[25]
	Gregoire	Cody Bown	[26]
	Luk'Luk'I	Wayne Wapeemukwa
	The Road Forward	Marie Clements
2018	Edge of the Knife	Gwaai Edenshaw, Helen Haig-Brown	[27]
	N.O.N.	Zebulon Zang	[28]
	This Mountain Life	Grant Baldwin
	When the Storm Fades	Seán Devlin
2019	The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open	Kathleen Hepburn, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers	[29]
	Because We Are Girls	Baljit Sangra	[30]
	Raf	Harry Cepka

2020s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Ref.
2020	Chained	Titus Heckel	[31]
	Brother, I Cry	Jessie Anthony	[32]
	The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel	Jennifer Abbott, Joel Bakan
2021	Portraits from a Fire	Trevor Mack	[33]
	Be Still	Elizabeth Lazebnik	[34]
	Someone Like Me	Steve J. Adams, Sean Horlor
2022	Riceboy Sleeps	Anthony Shim	[35]
	Doug and the Slugs and Me	Teresa Alfield	[36]
	Until Branches Bend	Sophie Jarvis
2023	Seagrass	Meredith Hama-Brown	[37]
	Float	Sherren Lee	[38]
	I'm Just Here for the Riot	Kathleen Jayme, Asia Youngman
	WaaPaKe	Jules Arita Koostachin
2024	Can I Get a Witness?	Ann Marie Fleming	[39]
	Ari's Theme	Nathan Drillot, Jeff Lee Petry	[40]
	The Chef and the Daruma	Mads K. Baekkevold

References

1. "Kudos all round". The Georgia Straight , February 9, 2006.
2. "Get ready for our Golden Globes". The Georgia Straight , January 19, 2006.
3. "The Rocket, Children of Men honoured by Vancouver film critics". Vancouver Sun , January 16, 2007.
4. Craig Takeuchi, "News from Hollywood North". The Georgia Straight , January 10, 2007.
5. "News from Hollywood North". The Georgia Straight , February 13, 2008.
6. Craig Takeuchi, "News from Hollywood North". The Georgia Straight , February 6, 2008.
7. "Vancouver critics praise ‘Milk’". Variety , January 13, 2009.
8. Craig Takeuchi, "Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards nominations announced". The Georgia Straight , January 5, 2009.
9. "Vancouver critics pick I Killed My Mother". CBC News, January 13, 2010.
10. Craig Takeuchi, "Vancouver Film Critics Circle: Up in the Air, J'ai tué ma mí¨re lead nominations". The Georgia Straight , January 4, 2010.
11. "Incendies, Barney’s lead Vancouver Critics Awards". Playback , January 11, 2011.
12. Glen Schaefer, "Incendies gets five nods from Vancouver film critics". The Province , January 4, 2011.
13. "Vancouver critics name The Artist top film of 2011". The Globe and Mail , January 10, 2012.
14. "VFCC Announces 12th Annual Award Nominees". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, January 2, 2012.
15. "Beyond the Black Rainbow, War Witch win at Vancouver critics awards". Playback , January 8, 2013.
16. "2013 VFCC Nominees Announced!". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 27, 2012.
17. "The Dirties cleans up in Vancouver; Film critics give top prizes to Matt Johnson, 12 Years a Slave". Edmonton Journal , January 9, 2014.
18. "And the 2014 VFCC nominees are...". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 22, 2013.
19. "Tu dors Nicole and Mommy top Canadian winners at Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards". The Georgia Straight , January 6, 2015.
20. "2015 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 22, 2014.
21. "Vancouver Film Critics Honour ‘Haida Gwaii’". Point of View , January 7, 2016.
22. "2016 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 14, 2015.
23. "Hello Destroyer wins big with VFCC". Playback , January 11, 2017.
24. "2017 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 16, 2016.
25. "Never Steady, Never Still takes the big prizes at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards". The Georgia Straight , January 9, 2018.
26. "2018 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 15, 2017.
27. "Vancouver Film Critics Circle names Edge of the Knife top Canadian feature film". Toronto Star , January 8, 2019.
28. Josh Cabrita, "2019 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 14, 2018.
29. "Vancouver film critics award 'The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open'". Tri-City News, January 7, 2020.
30. Adrian Mack, "Marriage Story dominates Vancouver Film Critics Circle noms". The Georgia Straight , December 13, 2019.
31. "VFCC Vote for Violation". Northern Stars, March 10, 2021.
32. Jorge Ignacio Castillo, "POSSESSOR AND CHAINED DOMINATE THE VFCC NOMINATIONS FOR BEST IN CANADIAN FILM". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, February 3, 2021.
33. Dana Gee, "The Power of the Dog named year's best feature by Vancouver Film Critics Circle". Vancouver Sun , March 8, 2022.
34. Dana Gee, "The Power of the Dog, Night Raiders lead Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards nominations". Vancouver Sun , February 20, 2022.
35. "Vancouver Film Critics Like I Like Movies". Northern Stars, February 14, 2023.
36. "Vancouver Film Critics Announce Nominees". Northern Stars. January 23, 2023. Retrieved January 23, 2023.
37. "VFCC Loves 'BlackBerry'". Northern Stars. February 13, 2024. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
38. Taimur Sikander Mirza, "BlackBerry, Seagrass lead VFCC’s Canadian nominees". Playback , January 23, 2024.
39. Jamie Casemore, "Can I Get a Witness? leads winners for 2025 VFCC Awards". Playback , February 19, 2025.
40. Nicholas Sokic, "Ann Marie Fleming’s Can I Get A Witness? leads VFCC noms". Playback , January 23, 2025.