# Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress

The Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress is an annual award given by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle.

## Winners and nominees
### 2000s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
| 2000 | Laura Linney | You Can Count on Me | Samantha "Sammy" Prescott |
| 2000 | Ellen Burstyn | Requiem for a Dream | Sara Goldfarb |
| 2000 | Michelle Yeoh | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Yu Shu Lien |
| 2001 | Sissy Spacek | In the Bedroom | Ruth Fowler |
| 2001 | Thora Birch | Ghost World | Enid |
| 2001 | Audrey Tautou | Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) | Amélie Poulain |
| 2002 | Julianne Moore | Far from Heaven | Cathy Whitaker |
| 2002 | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Secretary | Lee Holloway |
| 2002 | Nicole Kidman | The Hours | Virginia Woolf |
| 2002 | Diane Lane | Unfaithful | Constance Sumner |
| 2002 | Meryl Streep | The Hours | Clarissa Vaughan |
| 2003 | Charlize Theron | Monster | Aileen Wuornos |
| 2003 | Jennifer Connelly | House of Sand and Fog | Kathy Nicolo |
| 2003 | Scarlett Johansson | Lost in Translation | Charlotte |
| 2004 | Imelda Staunton | Vera Drake | Vera Drake |
| 2004 | Laura Linney | Kinsey | Clara McMillen |
| 2004 | Hilary Swank | Million Dollar Baby | Maggie Fitzgerald |
| 2005 | Felicity Huffman | Transamerica | Stanley Schupak / Bree Osbourne |
| 2005 | Laura Linney | The Squid and the Whale | Joan Berkman |
| 2005 | Charlize Theron | North Country | Josey Aimes |
| 2005 | Naomi Watts | King Kong | Ann Darrow |
| 2006 | Helen Mirren | The Queen | Queen Elizabeth II |
| 2006 | Judi Dench | Notes on a Scandal | Barbara Covett |
| 2006 | Kate Winslet | Little Children | Sarah Pierce |
| 2007 | Marion Cotillard | La Vie en Rose (La môme) | Édith Piaf |
| 2007 | Anamaria Marinca | 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days | Otilia Mihartescu |
| 2007 | Elliot Page | Juno | Juno MacGuff |
| 2008 | Kate Winslet | The Reader | Hanna Schmitz |
| 2008 | Kate Winslet | Revolutionary Road | April Wheeler |
| 2008 | Sally Hawkins | Happy-Go-Lucky | Pauline "Poppy" Cross |
| 2008 | Meryl Streep | Doubt | Sister Aloysius Beauvier |
| 2009 | Carey Mulligan | An Education | Jenny Miller |
| 2009 | Gabourey Sidibe | Precious | Claireece "Precious" Jones |
| 2009 | Meryl Streep | Julie & Julia | Julia Child |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
| 2010 | Jennifer Lawrence | Winter's Bone | Ree Dolly |
| 2010 | Annette Bening | The Kids Are All Right | Dr. Nicole "Nic" Allgood |
| 2010 | Natalie Portman | Black Swan | Nina Sayers |
| 2011 | Elizabeth Olsen | Martha Marcy May Marlene | Martha |
| 2011 | Meryl Streep | The Iron Lady | Margaret Thatcher |
| 2011 | Michelle Williams | My Week with Marilyn | Marilyn Monroe |
| 2012 | Jessica Chastain | Zero Dark Thirty | Maya |
| 2012 | Marion Cotillard | Rust and Bone | Stéphanie |
| 2012 | Jennifer Lawrence | Silver Linings Playbook | Tiffany Maxwell |
| 2013 | Cate Blanchett | Blue Jasmine | Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis |
| 2013 | Sandra Bullock | Gravity | Dr. Ryan Stone |
| 2013 | Greta Gerwig | Frances Ha | Frances Halladay |
| 2014 | Tilda Swinton | Only Lovers Left Alive | Eve |
| 2014 | Marion Cotillard | The Immigrant | Ewa Cybulska |
| 2014 | Reese Witherspoon | Wild | Cheryl Strayed |
| 2015 | Brie Larson | Room | Joy "Ma" Newsome |
| 2015 | Cate Blanchett | Carol | Carol Aird |
| 2015 | Saoirse Ronan | Brooklyn | Eilis Lacey |
| 2016 | Isabelle Huppert | Elle | Michèle Leblanc |
| 2016 | Amy Adams | Arrival | Dr. Louise Banks |
| 2016 | Natalie Portman | Jackie | Jackie Kennedy |
| 2017 | Saoirse Ronan | Lady Bird | Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson |
| 2017 | Sally Hawkins | The Shape of Water | Elisa Esposito |
| 2017 | Frances McDormand | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Mildred Hayes |
| 2018 | Olivia Colman | The Favourite | Anne, Queen of Great Britain |
| 2018 | Regina Hall | Support the Girls | Lisa Conroy |
| 2018 | Melissa McCarthy | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Lee Israel |
| 2019 | Scarlett Johansson | Marriage Story | Nicole Barber |
| 2019 | Lupita Nyong'o | Us | Adelaide Wilson / Red |
| 2019 | Saoirse Ronan | Little Women | Josephine "Jo" March |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
| 2020 | Frances McDormand | Nomadland | Fern |
| 2020 | Viola Davis | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Ma Rainey |
| 2020 | Carey Mulligan | Promising Young Woman | Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas |
| 2021 | Olivia Colman | The Lost Daughter | Leda Caruso |
| 2021 | Jessica Chastain | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Tammy Faye Bakker |
| 2021 | Renate Reinsve | The Worst Person in the World | Julie |
| 2022 | Michelle Yeoh | Everything Everywhere All At Once | Evelyn Wang |
| 2022 | Cate Blanchett | Tár | Lydia Tár |
| 2022 | Janelle Monáe | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | Helen and Andi Brand |
| 2023 | Sandra Hüller | Anatomy of a Fall | Sandra Voyter |
| 2023 | Annette Bening | Nyad | Diana Nyad |
| 2023 | Emma Stone | Poor Things | Bella Baxter / Victoria Blessington |
| 2024 | Mikey Madison | Anora | Anora "Ani" Mikheeva |
| 2024 | Demi Moore | The Substance | Elisabeth Sparkle |
| 2024 | Saoirse Ronan | The Outrun | Rona |