Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay

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

Winners and nominees

2000s

Year	Winners	Film	Ref
2009	Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner	Up in the Air	[1]
	Mark Boal	The Hurt Locker	[2]
	Quentin Tarantino	Inglourious Basterds

2010s

Year	Winners	Film	Ref
2010	Aaron Sorkin	The Social Network	[3]
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	True Grit	[4]
	Christopher Nolan	Inception
2011	Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist	[5]
	Woody Allen	Midnight in Paris	[6]
	Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash	The Descendants
	Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian	Moneyball
2012	Mark Boal	Zero Dark Thirty	[7]
	Tony Kushner	Lincoln	[8]
	Quentin Tarantino	Django Unchained
2013	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	Inside Llewyn Davis	[9]
	Spike Jonze	Her	[10]
	John Ridley	12 Years a Slave
2014	Wes Anderson	The Grand Budapest Hotel	[11]
	Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	[12]
	Richard Linklater	Boyhood
2015	Charlie Kaufman	Anomalisa	[13]
	Emma Donoghue	Room	[14]
	Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer	Spotlight
2016	Kenneth Lonergan	Manchester by the Sea	[15]
	Barry Jenkins	Moonlight	[16]
	Taylor Sheridan	Hell or High Water
2017	Jordan Peele	Get Out	[17]
	Greta Gerwig	Lady Bird	[18]
	Martin McDonagh	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2018	Paul Schrader	First Reformed	[19]
	Bo Burnham	Eighth Grade	[20]
	Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara	The Favourite
2019	Noah Baumbach	Marriage Story	[21]
	Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won	Parasite	[22]
	Quentin Tarantino	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

2020s

Year	Winners	Film	Ref
2020	Aaron Sorkin	The Trial of the Chicago 7	[23]
	Emerald Fennell	Promising Young Woman	[24]
	Jack Fincher	Mank
2021	Adam McKay and David Sirota	Don't Look Up	[25]
	Kenneth Branagh	Belfast	[26]
	Maggie Gyllenhaal	The Lost Daughter
2022	Martin McDonagh	The Banshees of Inisherin	[27]
	Todd Field	Tár	[28]
	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert	Everything Everywhere All at Once
2023	Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach	Barbie	[29]
	Christopher Nolan	Oppenheimer	[30]
	Justine Triet, Arthur Harari	Anatomy of a Fall
2024	Jesse Eisenberg	A Real Pain	[31]
	Sean Baker	Anora	[32]
	Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold	The Brutalist

References

1. "Vancouver critics pick I Killed My Mother". CBC News, January 13, 2010.
2. Craig Takeuchi, "Vancouver Film Critics Circle: Up in the Air, J'ai tué ma mí¨re lead nominations". The Georgia Straight , January 4, 2010.
3. "Incendies, Barney’s lead Vancouver Critics Awards". Playback , January 11, 2011.
4. Glen Schaefer, "Incendies gets five nods from Vancouver film critics". The Province , January 4, 2011.
5. "Vancouver critics name The Artist top film of 2011". The Globe and Mail , January 10, 2012.
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9. "The Dirties cleans up in Vancouver; Film critics give top prizes to Matt Johnson, 12 Years a Slave". Edmonton Journal , January 9, 2014.
10. "And the 2014 VFCC nominees are...". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 22, 2013.
11. "Tu dors Nicole and Mommy top Canadian winners at Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards". The Georgia Straight , January 6, 2015.
12. "2015 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 22, 2014.
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15. "Hello Destroyer wins big with VFCC". Playback , January 11, 2017.
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20. Josh Cabrita, "2019 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 14, 2018.
21. "Vancouver film critics award 'The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open'". Tri-City News, January 7, 2020.
22. Adrian Mack, "Marriage Story dominates Vancouver Film Critics Circle noms". The Georgia Straight , December 13, 2019.
23. Etan Vlessing, "Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Named Best Feature by Vancouver Film Critics Circle". The Hollywood Reporter , February 22, 2021.
24. Etan Vlessing, "Vancouver Film Critics Circle: 'Mank' Leads With Five Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter , February 19, 2021.
25. Dana Gee, "The Power of the Dog named year's best feature by Vancouver Film Critics Circle". Vancouver Sun , March 8, 2022.
26. Dana Gee, "The Power of the Dog, Night Raiders lead Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards nominations". Vancouver Sun , February 20, 2022.
27. Vlessing, Etan (February 13, 2023). "'Everything Everywhere All at Once' Named Best Feature by Vancouver Film Critics". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved February 13, 2023.
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29. 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.
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31. Dana Gee, "Oscar favourite Anora wins best international honour from Vancouver Film Critics Circle". Vancouver Sun , February 19, 2025.
32. Erik Anderson, "2024 Vancouver Film Critics Circle (VFCC) Nominations". Awards Watch, January 21, 2025.