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

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### 2000s

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Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role | Ref

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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 the Butcher" Cutting
Adrien Brody | The Pianist | Władysław 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 & Flow | Djay
Heath Ledger | Brokeback Mountain | Ennis Del Mar
2006 | Forest Whitaker | The Last King of Scotland | Idi Amin
Leonardo DiCaprio | The Departed | William "Billy" Costigan, Jr.
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

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Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role | Ref

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2010 |  Colin Firth | The King's Speech | King George VI
Jesse Eisenberg | The Social Network | Mark Zuckerberg
James Franco | 127 Hours | Aron Ralston
2011 |  Michael Fassbender | Shame | Brandon Sullivan
Jean Dujardin | The Artist | George Valentin
Michael Shannon | Take Shelter | Curtis LaForche
2012 |  Joaquin Phoenix | The Master | Freddie Quell
John Hawkes | The Sessions | Mark O'Brian
Daniel Day-Lewis | Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln
2013 |  Oscar Isaac | Inside Llewyn Davis | Llewyn Davis
Chiwetel Ejiofor | 12 Years a Slave | Solomon Northup
Matthew McConaughey | Dallas Buyers Club | Ron Woodroof
2014 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Nightcrawler | Lou Bloom
Benedict Cumberbatch | The Imitation Game | Alan Turing
Michael Keaton | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | Riggan Thomson
2015 | Michael Fassbender | Steve Jobs | Steve Jobs
Leonardo DiCaprio | The Revenant | Hugh Glass
Eddie Redmayne | The Danish Girl | Lili Elbe
2016 | Casey Affleck | Manchester by the Sea | Lee Chandler
Ryan Gosling | La La Land | Sebastian Wilder
Denzel Washington | Fences | Troy Maxson
2017 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Phantom Thread | Reynolds Woodcock
Timothée Chalamet | Call Me by Your Name | Elio Perlman
Gary Oldman | Darkest Hour | Winston Churchill
2018 | Ethan Hawke | First Reformed | Ernst Toller
Christian Bale | Vice | Dick Cheney
Viggo Mortensen | Green Book | Tony Lip
2019 | Adam Driver | Marriage Story | Charlie Barber
Antonio Banderas | Pain and Glory | Salvador Mallo
Joaquin Phoenix | Joker | The Joker

### 2020s

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Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role | Ref

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2020 | Chadwick Boseman | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Levee Green | [1]
Riz Ahmed | Sound of Metal | Ruben Stone  | [2]
Anthony Hopkins | The Father | Anthony
Gary Oldman | Mank | Herman J. Mankiewicz
2021 | Andrew Garfield | Tick, Tick... Boom! | Jonathan Larson | [3]
Bradley Cooper | Nightmare Alley | Stan Carlisle | [4]
Denzel Washington | The Tragedy of Macbeth | Lord Macbeth
2022 | Colin Farrell | The Banshees of Inisherin | Pádraic Súilleabháin | [5]
Austin Butler | Elvis | Elvis Presley | [6]
Paul Mescal | Aftersun | Calum
2023 | Paul Giamatti | The Holdovers | Paul Hunham | [7]
Bradley Cooper | Maestro | Leonard Bernstein | [8]
Cillian Murphy | Oppenheimer | J. Robert Oppenheimer

## References

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1. ^ Etan Vlessing, "Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Named Best Feature by Vancouver Film Critics Circle". The Hollywood Reporter, February 22, 2021.
2. ^ Vlessing, Etan (February 22, 2021). "Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Named Best Feature by Vancouver Film Critics Circle". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
3. ^ Dana Gee, "The Power of the Dog named year's best feature by Vancouver Film Critics Circle". Vancouver Sun, March 8, 2022.
4. ^ Dana Gee, "The Power of the Dog, Night Raiders lead Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards nominations". Vancouver Sun, February 20, 2022.
5. ^ Vlessing, Etan (February 13, 2023). "'Everything Everywhere All at Once' Named Best Feature by Vancouver Film Critics". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 13, 2023.
6. ^ "Vancouver Film Critics Announce Nominees". Northern Stars. January 23, 2023. Retrieved January 23, 2023.
7. ^ Gee, Dana (February 13, 2024). "'Anatomy of a Fall' beats out Hollywood to take top honours at Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
8. ^ Vlessing, Etan (January 22, 2024). "'Oppenheimer' Leads Vancouver Film Critics Circle Nominations With Six Nods". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 23, 2024.

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Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor

* Benicio del Toro (2000)
* Steve Buscemi (2001)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (2002)
* Sean Penn (2003)
* Jamie Foxx (2004)
* Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005)
* Forest Whitaker (2006)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (2007)
* Sean Penn (2008)
* Colin Firth (2009)
* Colin Firth (2010)
* Michael Fassbender (2011)
* Joaquin Phoenix (2012)
* Oscar Isaac (2013)
* Jake Gyllenhaal (2014)
* Michael Fassbender (2015)
* Casey Affleck (2016)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (2017)
* Ethan Hawke (2018)
* Adam Driver (2019)
* Chadwick Boseman (2020)
* Andrew Garfield (2021)
* Colin Farrell (2022)
* Paul Giamatti (2023)

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