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
Mark Ruffalo You Can Count on Me Terry Prescott
Billy Crudup Jesus' Son FH
Almost Famous Russell Hammond
2001 Steve Buscemi Ghost World Seymour
Russell Crowe A Beautiful Mind John Nash
Tom Wilkinson In the Bedroom Matt Fowler
2002 Daniel Day-Lewis Gangs of New York William "Bill" Cutting
Adrien Brody The Pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman
Nicolas Cage Adaptation. Charlie and Donald Kaufman
2003 Sean Penn Mystic River Jimmy Markum
Ben Kingsley House of Sand and Fog Behrani
Bill Murray Lost in Translation Bob Harris
2004 Jamie Foxx Ray Ray Charles
Paul Giamatti Sideways Miles Raymond
Liam Neeson Kinsey Alfred Kinsey
2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman Capote Truman Capote
Terrence Howard Hustle and Flow Djay
Heath Ledger Brokeback Mountain Ennis Del Mar
2006 Forest Whitaker The Last King of Scotland Idi Amin
Leonardo DiCaprio The Departed Billy Costigan
Ryan Gosling Half Nelson Dan Dunne
2007 Daniel Day-Lewis There Will Be Blood Daniel Plainview
Emile Hirsch Into the Wild Christopher McCandless
Viggo Mortensen Eastern Promises Nikolai Luzhin
2008 Sean Penn Milk Harvey Milk
Frank Langella Frost/Nixon Richard Nixon
Mickey Rourke The Wrestler Randy Robinson
2009 Colin Firth A Single Man George Falconer
George Clooney Up in the Air Ryan Bingham
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
Jesse Eisenberg The Social Network Mark Zuckerberg
James Franco 127 Hours Aron Ralston
International awards
Actor • Actress • Director • Film • Foreign Language Film • Supporting Actor • Supporting Actress
Canadian awards
Actor • Actress • Director • Film • British Columbia Film • Supporting Actor • Supporting Actress
Ceremonies
2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009 • 2010