# Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in a Canadian Film

The Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in Canadian Film is an annual award given by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle. In 2000 and 2001 the award was only given to Canadian actors, the last few years every actor who plays in a Canadian production can win the award.

## Winners
### 2000s

| Year | Actor | Film | Role |
| 2000 | Brendan Fletcher | Rollercoaster | Stick |
| 2000 | Nicholas Campbell | New Waterford Girl | Francis Pottie |
| 2000 | Fabrizio Filippo | waydowntown | Tom Bennett |
| 2001 | Benjamin Ratner | Last Wedding | Noah |
| 2001 | Peter Outerbridge | Marine Life | Robert Kiley |
| 2001 | Michael Riley | Mile Zero | Derek |
| 2001 | Tom Scholte | Last Wedding | Peter |
| 2002 | Callum Keith Rennie | Flower & Garnet | Ed |
| 2002 | Michael Riley | Punch | Sam Frizzell |
| 2002 | Tygh Runyan | Various Positions | Josh |
| 2003 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Owning Mahowny | Dan Mahowny |
| 2003 | Rémy Girard | The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares) | Rémy |
| 2003 | Callum Keith Rennie | Falling Angels | Jim Field |
| 2004 | Don McKellar | Childstar | Rick Schiller |
| 2004 | Noel Burton | A Silent Love | Norman |
| 2004 | Jacob Tierney | Blood | Chris Terry |
| 2005 | Marc-André Grondin | C.R.A.Z.Y. | Zachary Beaulieu |
| 2005 | Paul Kaye | It's All Gone Pete Tong | Frankie Wilde |
| 2005 | Kris Lemche | A Simple Curve | Caleb |
| 2006 | Don McKellar | Monkey Warfare | Dan |
| 2006 | Paulo Costanzo | Everything's Gone Green | Ryan |
| 2006 | Roy Dupuis | The Rocket | Maurice Richard |
| 2007 | Viggo Mortensen | Eastern Promises | Nicolai |
| 2007 | Roy Dupuis | Shake Hands with the Devil | Roméo Dallaire |
| 2007 | Rossif Sutherland | Poor Boy's Game | Donnie Rose |
| 2008 | Natar Ungalaaq | The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre) | Tiivii |
| 2008 | Antoine L'Écuyer | It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, je le jure!) | Léon Doré |
| 2008 | Jim Sturgess | Fifty Dead Men Walking | Martin McGartland |
| 2009 | Xavier Dolan | I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère) | Hubert Minel |
| 2009 | Sébastien Huberdeau | Polytechnique | Jean-François |
| 2009 | Stephen McHattie | Pontypool | Grant Mazzy |

### 2010s

| Year | Actor | Film | Role |
| 2010 | Paul Giamatti | Barney's Version | Barney Panofsky |
| 2010 | Jay Baruchel | The Trotsky | Leon Bronstein |
| 2010 | Paul Spence | FUBAR 2 | Dean |
| 2011 | Peter Stormare | Small Town Murder Songs | Walter |
| 2011 | Mohamed Fellag | Monsieur Lazhar | Bashir Lazhar |
| 2011 | Patrick Huard | Starbuck | David Wozniak |
| 2012 | Michael Rogers | Beyond the Black Rainbow | Dr Barry Nyle |
| 2012 | Robert Pattinson | Cosmopolis | Eric Packer |
| 2012 | Melvil Poupaud | Laurence Anyways | Laurence |
| 2013 | Matt Johnson | The Dirties | Matt |
| 2013 | Thomas Haden Church | Whitewash | Bruce |
| 2013 | Tom Scholte | The Dick Knost Show | Dick Knost |
| 2014 | Antoine Olivier Pilon | Mommy | Steve Desprès |
| 2014 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Enemy | Adam Bell / Anthony Claire |
| 2014 | Maxwell McCabe-Lokos | The Husband | Henry Andreas |
| 2015 | Jacob Tremblay | Room | Jack Newsome |
| 2015 | Michael Eklund | Eadweard | Eadweard Muybridge |
| 2015 | Christopher Plummer | Remember | Zev Guttman/Otto Wallisch |
| 2016 | Jared Abrahamson | Hello Destroyer | Tyson Burr |
| 2016 | Chen Gang | Old Stone | Lao Shi |
| 2016 | Andrew Gillis | Werewolf | Blaise |
| 2017 | Ronnie Rowe | Black Cop | Black Cop |
| 2017 | Jared Abrahamson | Gregoire | Felix |
| 2017 | Anthony Therrien | Fake Tattoos (Les faux tatouages) | Theo |
| 2018 | Tyler York | Edge of the Knife (SG̲aawaay Ḵʹuuna) | Adiitsʹii / Gaagiixid |
| 2018 | Théodore Pellerin | Genesis (Genèse) | Guillaume |
| 2018 | Josh Wiggins | Giant Little Ones | Franky Winter |
| 2019 | Dan Beirne | The Twentieth Century | Mackenzie King |
| 2019 | Tim Guinee | Ash | Stan |
| 2019 | David Thewlis | Guest of Honour | Jim |

### 2020s

| Year | Actor | Film | Role |
| 2020 | Justin Rain | Brother, I Cry | Jon |
| 2020 | Adam Brody | The Kid Detective | Abraham "Abe" Applebaum |
| 2020 | Alex Crowther | Flowers of the Field | Aaron Warner |
| 2020 | Marlon Kazadi | Chained | Taylor |
| 2021 | Daniel Doheny | Drinkwater | Mike Drinkwater |
| 2021 | Pavle Čemerikić | The White Fortress (Tabija) | Faruk |
| 2021 | Jorge Antonio Guerrero | Drunken Birds (Les Oiseaux ivres) | Willy |
| 2022 | Isaiah Lehtinen | I Like Movies | Lawrence |
| 2022 | Adam Beach | Exile | Ted Evans |
| 2022 | Lamar Johnson | Brother | Michael |
| 2023 | Jay Baruchel | BlackBerry | Mike Lazaridis |
| 2023 | Cody Lightning | Hey, Viktor! | Cody |
| 2023 | Théodore Pellerin | Solo | Simon |
| 2024 | Matt Johnson | Matt and Mara | Matt |
| 2024 | Roy Dupuis | Rumours | Maxime Laplace |
| 2024 | Jae-Hyun Kim | Mongrels | Sonny |