Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best British Columbia Film

The Vancouver Film Critics Circle presents an award for Best British Columbia Film as part of its annual critics awards program, honouring the best films made within the Canadian province of British Columbia within the previous year.

Winners

2000s

Year Film Director(s) Ref.
2005 It's All Gone Pete Tong Michael Dowse [1]
Eve and the Fire Horse Julia Kwan [2]
A Simple Curve Aubrey Nealon
2006 Fido Andrew Currie [3]
Everything's Gone Green Paul Fox [4]
Mount Pleasant Ross Weber
Unnatural & Accidental Carl Bessai
2007 American Venus Bruce Sweeney [5]
Confessions of an Innocent Man David Paperny [6]
The Union: The Business Behind Getting High Brett Harvey
2008 Fifty Dead Men Walking Kari Skogland [7]
Edison and Leo Neil Burns [8]
Stone of Destiny Charles Martin Smith
2009 Facing Ali Pete McCormack [9]
Excited Bruce Sweeney [10]
A Shine of Rainbows Vic Sarin

2010s

Year Film Director(s) Ref.
2010 Fathers & Sons Carl Bessai [11]
Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie Sturla Gunnarsson [12]
Mighty Jerome Charles Officer
2011 People of a Feather Joel Heath [13]
Daydream Nation Michael Goldbach [14]
Sisters & Brothers Carl Bessai
2012 Beyond the Black Rainbow Panos Cosmatos [15]
Becoming Redwood Jesse James Miller [16]
Camera Shy Mark Sawers
Random Acts of Romance Katrin Bowen
2013 Down River Benjamin Ratner [17]
Oil Sands Karaoke Charles Wilkinson [18]
When I Walk Jason DaSilva
2014 Violent Andrew Huculiak [19]
Everything Will Be Julia Kwan [20]
Preggoland Jacob Tierney
2015 Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World Charles Wilkinson [21]
Eadweard Josh Epstein, Kyle Rideout [22]
No Men Beyond This Point Mark Sawers
2016 Hello Destroyer Kevan Funk [23]
Aim for the Roses John Bolton [24]
Koneline: Our Land Beautiful Nettie Wild
Window Horses Ann Marie Fleming
2017 Never Steady, Never Still Kathleen Hepburn [25]
Gregoire Cody Bown [26]
Luk'Luk'I Wayne Wapeemukwa
The Road Forward Marie Clements
2018 Edge of the Knife Gwaai Edenshaw, Helen Haig-Brown [27]
N.O.N. Zebulon Zang [28]
This Mountain Life Grant Baldwin
When the Storm Fades Seán Devlin
2019 The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open Kathleen Hepburn, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers [29]
Because We Are Girls Baljit Sangra [30]
Raf Harry Cepka

2020s

Year Film Director(s) Ref.
2020 Chained Titus Heckel [31]
Brother, I Cry Jessie Anthony [32]
The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel Jennifer Abbott, Joel Bakan
2021 Portraits from a Fire Trevor Mack [33]
Be Still Elizabeth Lazebnik [34]
Someone Like Me Steve J. Adams, Sean Horlor
2022 Riceboy Sleeps Anthony Shim [35]
Doug and the Slugs and Me Teresa Alfield [36]
Until Branches Bend Sophie Jarvis
2023 Seagrass Meredith Hama-Brown [37]
Float Sherren Lee [38]
I'm Just Here for the Riot Kathleen Jayme, Asia Youngman
WaaPaKe Jules Arita Koostachin

References

  1. ^ "Kudos all round". The Georgia Straight, February 9, 2006.
  2. ^ "Get ready for our Golden Globes". The Georgia Straight, January 19, 2006.
  3. ^ "The Rocket, Children of Men honoured by Vancouver film critics". Vancouver Sun, January 16, 2007.
  4. ^ Craig Takeuchi, "News from Hollywood North". The Georgia Straight, January 10, 2007.
  5. ^ "News from Hollywood North". The Georgia Straight, February 13, 2008.
  6. ^ Craig Takeuchi, "News from Hollywood North". The Georgia Straight, February 6, 2008.
  7. ^ "Vancouver critics praise ‘Milk’". Variety, January 13, 2009.
  8. ^ Craig Takeuchi, "Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards nominations announced". The Georgia Straight, January 5, 2009.
  9. ^ "Vancouver critics pick I Killed My Mother". CBC News, January 13, 2010.
  10. ^ Craig Takeuchi, "Vancouver Film Critics Circle: Up in the Air, J'ai tué ma mí¨re lead nominations". The Georgia Straight, January 4, 2010.
  11. ^ "Incendies, Barney’s lead Vancouver Critics Awards". Playback, January 11, 2011.
  12. ^ Glen Schaefer, "Incendies gets five nods from Vancouver film critics". The Province, January 4, 2011.
  13. ^ "Vancouver critics name The Artist top film of 2011". The Globe and Mail, January 10, 2012.
  14. ^ "VFCC Announces 12th Annual Award Nominees". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, January 2, 2012.
  15. ^ "Beyond the Black Rainbow, War Witch win at Vancouver critics awards". Playback, January 8, 2013.
  16. ^ "2013 VFCC Nominees Announced!". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 27, 2012.
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  18. ^ "And the 2014 VFCC nominees are...". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 22, 2013.
  19. ^ "Tu dors Nicole and Mommy top Canadian winners at Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards". The Georgia Straight, January 6, 2015.
  20. ^ "2015 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 22, 2014.
  21. ^ "Vancouver Film Critics Honour ‘Haida Gwaii’". Point of View, January 7, 2016.
  22. ^ "2016 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 14, 2015.
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  24. ^ "2017 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 16, 2016.
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  26. ^ "2018 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 15, 2017.
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  28. ^ Josh Cabrita, "2019 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 14, 2018.
  29. ^ "Vancouver film critics award 'The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open'". Tri-City News, January 7, 2020.
  30. ^ Adrian Mack, "Marriage Story dominates Vancouver Film Critics Circle noms". The Georgia Straight, December 13, 2019.
  31. ^ "VFCC Vote for Violation". Northern Stars, March 10, 2021.
  32. ^ Jorge Ignacio Castillo, "POSSESSOR AND CHAINED DOMINATE THE VFCC NOMINATIONS FOR BEST IN CANADIAN FILM". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, February 3, 2021.
  33. ^ Dana Gee, "The Power of the Dog named year's best feature by Vancouver Film Critics Circle". Vancouver Sun, March 8, 2022.
  34. ^ Dana Gee, "The Power of the Dog, Night Raiders lead Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards nominations". Vancouver Sun, February 20, 2022.
  35. ^ "Vancouver Film Critics Like I Like Movies". Northern Stars, February 14, 2023.
  36. ^ "Vancouver Film Critics Announce Nominees". Northern Stars. January 23, 2023. Retrieved January 23, 2023.
  37. ^ "VFCC Loves 'BlackBerry'". Northern Stars. February 13, 2024. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
  38. ^ Taimur Sikander Mirza, "BlackBerry, Seagrass lead VFCC’s Canadian nominees". Playback, January 23, 2024.