Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film

The winners of the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film are listed below:

Year	Winners and nominees	Director(s)	Ref
2000	Traffic	Steven Soderbergh	^[1]
	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Ang Lee	^[1]
	You Can Count on Me	Kenneth Lonergan	^[1]
	Not of this World (Fuori dal mundo)	Giuseppe Piccioni	^[1]
2001	Memento	Christopher Nolan	^[2]
	Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	^[2]
	Ghost World	Terry Zwigoff	^[2]
	Moulin Rouge!	Baz Luhrmann	^[2]
	Mulholland Drive	David Lynch	^[2]
2002	The Hours	Stephen Daldry	^[3]
	Far from Heaven	Todd Haynes	^[3]
	Gangs Of New York	Martin Scorsese	^[3]
2003	Lost in Translation	Sofia Coppola	^[4]
	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Peter Jackson	^[4]
	Mystic River	Clint Eastwood	^[4]
2004	Sideways	Alexander Payne
	The Aviator	Martin Scorsese
	Million Dollar Baby	Clint Eastwood
2005	Brokeback Mountain	Ang Lee	^[5]
	Capote	Bennett Miller	^[6]
	Good Night, and Good Luck.	George Clooney	^[6]
2006	Children of Men	Alfonso Cuarón
	The Departed	Martin Scorsese
	Little Children	Todd Field
2007	No Country for Old Men	Joel and Ethan Coen	^[7]
	Juno	Jason Reitman	^[8]
	There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson	^[8]
2008	Milk	Gus Van Sant	^[9]
	Slumdog Millionaire	Danny Boyle	^[9]
	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton	^[9]
2009	Up in the Air	Jason Reitman
	The Hurt Locker	Kathryn Bigelow
	A Serious Man	Joel and Ethan Coen

Year	Winner and nominees	Director(s)	Ref
2010	The Social Network	David Fincher
	Black Swan	Darren Aronofsky
	True Grit	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
2011	The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius
	The Descendants	Alexander Payne
	The Tree of Life	Terrence Malick
2012	Zero Dark Thirty	Kathryn Bigelow
	The Master	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Lincoln	Steven Spielberg
2013	12 Years a Slave	Steve McQueen
	Gravity	Alfonso Cuarón
	Inside Llewyn Davis	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
2014	Boyhood	Richard Linklater
	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Alejandro González Iñárritu
	Whiplash	Damien Chazelle
2015	Spotlight	Tom McCarthy
	Mad Max: Fury Road	George Miller
	The Revenant	Alejandro G. Iñárritu
2016	Manchester by the Sea	Kenneth Lonergan
	La La Land	Damien Chazelle
	Moonlight	Barry Jenkins
2017	Lady Bird	Greta Gerwig
	Dunkirk	Christopher Nolan
	Phantom Thread	Paul Thomas Anderson
2018	Roma	Alfonso Cuaron	^[10]
	The Favourite	Yorgos Lanthimos	^[11]
	First Reformed	Paul Schrader	^[11]
2019	Parasite	Bong Joon-ho	^[12]
	Marriage Story	Noah Baumbach	^[13]
	The Irishman	Martin Scorsese	^[13]

Year	Winner and nominees	Director(s)	Ref
2020	Nomadland	Chloé Zhao	^[14]
	Promising Young Woman	Emerald Fennell	^[15]
	Mank	David Fincher	^[15]
2021	The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion	^[16]
	Belfast	Kenneth Branagh	^[17]
	CODA	Sian Heder	^[17]
2022	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Sceinert	^[18]
	The Banshees of Inisherin	Martin McDonagh	^[19]
	Tár	Todd Field	^[19]
2023	Anatomy of a Fall	Justine Triet	^[20]
	Oppenheimer	Christopher Nolan	^[21]
	The Zone of Interest	Jonathan Glazer	^[21]
2024	Anora	Sean Baker	^[22]
	The Brutalist	Brady Corbet	^[23]
	A Real Pain	Jesse Eisenberg	^[23]

Winners and nominees