# Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film

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

## Winners and nominees
### 2000s

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

### 2010s

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

### 2020s

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