Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor

The winners of the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor are listed below.

Winners

2000s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
2002	Chris Cooper	Adaptation.	John Laroche
	Christopher Walken	Catch Me If You Can	Frank Abagnale, Sr.
	Dennis Quaid	Far from Heaven	Frank Whitaker
2003	Alec Baldwin	The Cooler	Shelly Kaplow
	Benicio del Toro	21 Grams	Jack Jordan
	Tim Robbins	Mystic River	Dave Boyle
2004	Morgan Freeman	Million Dollar Baby	Eddie Dupris
	Thomas Haden Church	Sideways	Jack Cole
	Clive Owen	Closer	Larry Gray
2005	Terrence Howard	Crash	Cameron Thayer
	Matt Dillon	Crash	John Ryan
	Paul Giamatti	Cinderella Man	Joe Gould
2006	Alan Arkin	Little Miss Sunshine	Edwin Hoover
	Steve Carell	Little Miss Sunshine	Frank Ginsberg
	Brad Pitt	Babel	Richard Jones
2007	Javier Bardem	No Country for Old Men	Anton Chigurh
	Casey Affleck	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Robert Ford
	Tom Wilkinson	Michael Clayton	Arthur Edens
2008	Heath Ledger	The Dark Knight	The Joker
	Josh Brolin	Milk	Dan White
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Doubt	Brendan Flynn
2009	Christoph Waltz	Inglourious Basterds	Col. Hans Landa
	Stanley Tucci	The Lovely Bones	George Harvey
	Alfred Molina	An Education	Jack Miller

2010s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
2010	Christian Bale	The Fighter	Dicky Eklund
	John Hawkes	Winter's Bone	Teardrop Dolly
	Geoffrey Rush	The King's Speech	Lionel Logue
2011	Christopher Plummer	Beginners	Hal Fields
	Kenneth Branagh	My Week with Marilyn	Laurence Olivier
	Albert Brooks	Drive	Bernie Rose
2012	Philip Seymour Hoffman	The Master	Lancaster Dodd
	Tommy Lee Jones	Lincoln	Thaddeus Stevens
	Christoph Waltz	Django Unchained	Dr. King Schultz
2013	Jared Leto	Dallas Buyers Club	Rayon
	Bradley Cooper	American Hustle	Richard "Richie" DiMaso
	Michael Fassbender	12 Years a Slave	Edwin Epps
2014	J. K. Simmons	Whiplash	Terence Fletcher
	Edward Norton	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Mike Shiner
	Mark Ruffalo	Foxcatcher	Dave Schultz
2015	Mark Rylance	Bridge of Spies	Rudolf Abel
	Michael Shannon	99 Homes	Rick Carver
	Sylvester Stallone	Creed	Rocky Balboa
2016	Mahershala Ali	Moonlight	Juan
	Jeff Bridges	Hell or High Water	Marcus Hamilton
	Lucas Hedges	Manchester by the Sea	Patrick Chandler
2017	Willem Dafoe	The Florida Project	Bobby Hicks
	Armie Hammer	Call Me by Your Name	Oliver
	Sam Rockwell	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Jason Dixon
2018	Richard E. Grant	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	Jack Hock
	Mahershala Ali	Green Book	Don Shirley
	Peter Bogdanovich	The Other Side of the Wind	Brooks Otterlake
	Steven Yeun	Burning	Ben
2019	Brad Pitt	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Cliff Booth
	Tom Hanks	A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood	Fred Rogers
	Joe Pesci	The Irishman	Russell Bufalino

2020s

Year	Winner and nominees	Film	Role	Ref
2020
	Daniel Kaluuya	Judas and the Black Messiah	Fred Hampton
	Sacha Baron Cohen	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Abbie Hoffman
	Leslie Odom, Jr.	One Night in Miami...	Sam Cooke
2021	Troy Kotsur	CODA	Frank Rossi
	Bradley Cooper	Licorice Pizza	Jon Peters
	Jesse Plemons	The Power of the Dog	George Burbank
	Kodi Smit-McPhee	The Power of the Dog	Peter Gordon
2022	Brendan Gleeson	The Banshees of Inisherin	Colm Doherty
	Barry Keoghan	The Banshees of Inisherin	Dominic Kearney
	Ke Huy Quan	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Waymond Wang
2023	Robert Downey Jr.	Oppenheimer	Lewis Strauss
	Willem Dafoe	Poor Things	Godwin Baxter
	Robert De Niro	Killers of the Flower Moon	William King Hale
2024	Kieran Culkin	A Real Pain	Benji Kaplan	[1]
	Yura Borisov	Anora	Igor	[2]
	Edward Norton	A Complete Unknown	Pete Seeger

References

1. Dana Gee, "Oscar favourite Anora wins best international honour from Vancouver Film Critics Circle". Vancouver Sun , February 19, 2025.
2. Erik Anderson, "2024 Vancouver Film Critics Circle (VFCC) Nominations". Awards Watch, January 21, 2025.