# Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor

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 |
| 2000 | Benicio del Toro | Traffic | Javier Rodriguez |
| 2000 | Mark Ruffalo | You Can Count on Me | Terry Prescott |
| 2000 | Billy Crudup | Jesus' Son | FH |
| 2000 | Billy Crudup | Almost Famous | Russell Hammond |
| 2001 | Steve Buscemi | Ghost World | Seymour |
| 2001 | Russell Crowe | A Beautiful Mind | John Nash |
| 2001 | Tom Wilkinson | In the Bedroom | Matt Fowler |
| 2002 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Gangs of New York | William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting |
| 2002 | Adrien Brody | The Pianist | Władysław Szpilman |
| 2002 | Nicolas Cage | Adaptation. | Charlie and Donald Kaufman |
| 2003 | Sean Penn | Mystic River | Jimmy Markum |
| 2003 | Ben Kingsley | House of Sand and Fog | Behrani |
| 2003 | Bill Murray | Lost in Translation | Bob Harris |
| 2004 | Jamie Foxx | Ray | Ray Charles |
| 2004 | Paul Giamatti | Sideways | Miles Raymond |
| 2004 | Liam Neeson | Kinsey | Alfred Kinsey |
| 2005 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Capote | Truman Capote |
| 2005 | Terrence Howard | Hustle & Flow | Djay |
| 2005 | Heath Ledger | Brokeback Mountain | Ennis Del Mar |
| 2006 | Forest Whitaker | The Last King of Scotland | Idi Amin |
| 2006 | Leonardo DiCaprio | The Departed | William "Billy" Costigan Jr. |
| 2006 | Ryan Gosling | Half Nelson | Dan Dunne |
| 2007 | Daniel Day-Lewis | There Will Be Blood | Daniel Plainview |
| 2007 | Emile Hirsch | Into the Wild | Christopher McCandless |
| 2007 | Viggo Mortensen | Eastern Promises | Nikolai Luzhin |
| 2008 | Sean Penn | Milk | Harvey Milk |
| 2008 | Frank Langella | Frost/Nixon | Richard Nixon |
| 2008 | Mickey Rourke | The Wrestler | Randy Robinson |
| 2009 | Colin Firth | A Single Man | George Falconer |
| 2009 | George Clooney | Up in the Air | Ryan Bingham |
| 2009 | Jeremy Renner | The Hurt Locker | SFC. William James |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
| 2010 | Colin Firth | The King's Speech | King George VI |
| 2010 | Jesse Eisenberg | The Social Network | Mark Zuckerberg |
| 2010 | James Franco | 127 Hours | Aron Ralston |
| 2011 | Michael Fassbender | Shame | Brandon Sullivan |
| 2011 | Jean Dujardin | The Artist | George Valentin |
| 2011 | Michael Shannon | Take Shelter | Curtis LaForche |
| 2012 | Joaquin Phoenix | The Master | Freddie Quell |
| 2012 | John Hawkes | The Sessions | Mark O'Brian |
| 2012 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln |
| 2013 | Oscar Isaac | Inside Llewyn Davis | Llewyn Davis |
| 2013 | Chiwetel Ejiofor | 12 Years a Slave | Solomon Northup |
| 2013 | Matthew McConaughey | Dallas Buyers Club | Ron Woodroof |
| 2014 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Nightcrawler | Lou Bloom |
| 2014 | Benedict Cumberbatch | The Imitation Game | Alan Turing |
| 2014 | Michael Keaton | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | Riggan Thomson |
| 2015 | Michael Fassbender | Steve Jobs | Steve Jobs |
| 2015 | Leonardo DiCaprio | The Revenant | Hugh Glass |
| 2015 | Eddie Redmayne | The Danish Girl | Lili Elbe |
| 2016 | Casey Affleck | Manchester by the Sea | Lee Chandler |
| 2016 | Ryan Gosling | La La Land | Sebastian Wilder |
| 2016 | Denzel Washington | Fences | Troy Maxson |
| 2017 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Phantom Thread | Reynolds Woodcock |
| 2017 | Timothée Chalamet | Call Me by Your Name | Elio Perlman |
| 2017 | Gary Oldman | Darkest Hour | Winston Churchill |
| 2018 | Ethan Hawke | First Reformed | Ernst Toller |
| 2018 | Christian Bale | Vice | Dick Cheney |
| 2018 | Viggo Mortensen | Green Book | Tony Lip |
| 2019 | Adam Driver | Marriage Story | Charlie Barber |
| 2019 | Antonio Banderas | Pain and Glory | Salvador Mallo |
| 2019 | Joaquin Phoenix | Joker | The Joker |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
| 2020 | Chadwick Boseman | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Levee Green |
| 2020 | Riz Ahmed | Sound of Metal | Ruben Stone |
| 2020 | Anthony Hopkins | The Father | Anthony |
| 2020 | Gary Oldman | Mank | Herman J. Mankiewicz |
| 2021 | Andrew Garfield | Tick, Tick... Boom! | Jonathan Larson |
| 2021 | Bradley Cooper | Nightmare Alley | Stan Carlisle |
| 2021 | Denzel Washington | The Tragedy of Macbeth | Lord Macbeth |
| 2022 | Colin Farrell | The Banshees of Inisherin | Pádraic Súilleabháin |
| 2022 | Austin Butler | Elvis | Elvis Presley |
| 2022 | Paul Mescal | Aftersun | Calum |
| 2023 | Paul Giamatti | The Holdovers | Paul Hunham |
| 2023 | Bradley Cooper | Maestro | Leonard Bernstein |
| 2023 | Cillian Murphy | Oppenheimer | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| 2024 | Timothée Chalamet | A Complete Unknown | Bob Dylan |
| 2024 | Adrien Brody | The Brutalist | László Tóth |
| 2024 | Colman Domingo | Sing Sing | John "Divine G" Whitfield |