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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

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.