# Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Canadian Film

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

## Winners
### 2000s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 2000 | Maelström | Denis Villeneuve |
| 2000 | New Waterford Girl | Allan Moyle |
| 2000 | waydowntown | Gary Burns |
| 2001 | Last Wedding | Bruce Sweeney |
| 2001 | Ginger Snaps | John Fawcett |
| 2001 | Mile Zero | Andrew Currie |
| 2001 | Lost and Delirious | Léa Pool |
| 2002 | Flower & Garnet | Keith Behrman |
| 2002 | Ararat | Atom Egoyan |
| 2002 | Bollywood/Hollywood | Deepa Mehta |
| 2003 | The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares) | Denys Arcand |
| 2003 | Falling Angels | Scott Smith |
| 2003 | Owning Mahowny | Richard Kwietniowski |
| 2004 | Childstar | Don McKellar |
| 2004 | Festival Express | Bob Smeaton |
| 2004 | Scared Sacred | Velcrow Ripper |
| 2004 | A Silent Love | Federico Hidalgo |
| 2005 | C.R.A.Z.Y. | Jean-Marc Vallée |
| 2005 | It's All Gone Pete Tong | Michael Dowse |
| 2005 | Water | Deepa Mehta |
| 2006 | The Rocket (Maurice Richard) | Charles Binamé |
| 2006 | Away from Her | Sarah Polley |
| 2006 | Manufactured Landscapes | Jennifer Baichwal |
| 2006 | Monkey Warfare | Reginald Harkema |
| 2007 | Eastern Promises | David Cronenberg |
| 2007 | My Winnipeg | Guy Maddin |
| 2007 | Up the Yangtze | Yung Chang |
| 2008 | It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, je le jure!) | Philippe Falardeau |
| 2008 | Heaven on Earth | Deepa Mehta |
| 2008 | The Necessities of Life | Benoît Pilon |
| 2009 | I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère) | Xavier Dolan |
| 2009 | Polytechnique | Denis Villeneuve |
| 2009 | The Young Victoria | Jean-Marc Vallée |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 2010 | Incendies | Denis Villeneuve |
| 2010 | Last Train Home | Lixin Fan |
| 2010 | Trigger | Bruce McDonald |
| 2011 | Café de Flore | Jean-Marc Vallée |
| 2011 | Small Town Murder Songs | Ed Gass-Donnelly |
| 2011 | Starbuck | Ken Scott |
| 2012 | War Witch (Rebelle) | Kim Nguyen |
| 2012 | Cosmopolis | David Cronenberg |
| 2012 | Stories We Tell | Sarah Polley |
| 2013 | The Dirties | Matt Johnson |
| 2013 | Gabrielle | Louise Archambault |
| 2013 | Watermark | Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky |
| 2014 | You're Sleeping Nicole (Tu dors Nicole) | Stéphane Lafleur |
| 2014 | Enemy | Denis Villeneuve |
| 2014 | Mommy | Xavier Dolan |
| 2015 | Room | Lenny Abrahamson |
| 2015 | The Forbidden Room | Guy Maddin |
| 2015 | Sleeping Giant | Andrew Cividino |
| 2016 | Hello Destroyer | Kevan Funk |
| 2016 | Werewolf | Ashley McKenzie |
| 2016 | Window Horses | Ann Marie Fleming |
| 2017 | Never Steady, Never Still | Kathleen Hepburn |
| 2017 | Black Cop | Cory Bowles |
| 2017 | Fail to Appear | Antoine Bourges |
| 2018 | Edge of the Knife | Gwaai Edenshaw, Helen Haig-Brown |
| 2018 | Fausto | Andrea Bussmann |
| 2018 | Roads in February (Les routes en février) | Katherine Jerkovic |
| 2019 | The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open | Kathleen Hepburn and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers |
| 2019 | Anne at 13,000 Ft. | Kazik Radwanski |
| 2019 | The Twentieth Century | Matthew Rankin |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 2020 | Violation | Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli |
| 2020 | The Nest | Sean Durkin |
| 2020 | Possessor | Brandon Cronenberg |
| 2021 | All My Puny Sorrows | Michael McGowan |
| 2021 | Night Raiders | Danis Goulet |
| 2021 | Scarborough | Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson |
| 2022 | I Like Movies | Chandler Levack |
| 2022 | Eternal Spring | Jason Loftus |
| 2022 | Riceboy Sleeps | Anthony Shim |
| 2023 | BlackBerry | Matt Johnson |
| 2023 | Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant) | Ariane Louis-Seize |
| 2023 | To Kill a Tiger | Nisha Pahuja |
| 2024 | My Old Ass | Megan Park |
| 2024 | 40 Acres | R. T. Thorne |
| 2024 | Can I Get a Witness? | Ann Marie Fleming |
| 2024 | Rumours | Guy Maddin |