Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay

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

Winners and nominees

2000s

Year Winners Film Ref
2009 Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner Up in the Air [1]
Mark Boal The Hurt Locker [2]
Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds

2010s

Year Winners Film Ref
2010 Aaron Sorkin The Social Network [3]
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen True Grit [4]
Christopher Nolan Inception
2011 Michel Hazanavicius The Artist [5]
Woody Allen Midnight in Paris [6]
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash The Descendants
Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian Moneyball
2012 Mark Boal Zero Dark Thirty [7]
Tony Kushner Lincoln [8]
Quentin Tarantino Django Unchained
2013 Joel Coen and Ethan Coen Inside Llewyn Davis [9]
Spike Jonze Her [10]
John Ridley 12 Years a Slave
2014 Wes Anderson The Grand Budapest Hotel [11]
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) [12]
Richard Linklater Boyhood
2015 Charlie Kaufman Anomalisa [13]
Emma Donoghue Room [14]
Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer Spotlight
2016 Kenneth Lonergan Manchester by the Sea [15]
Barry Jenkins Moonlight [16]
Taylor Sheridan Hell or High Water
2017 Jordan Peele Get Out [17]
Greta Gerwig Lady Bird [18]
Martin McDonagh Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2018 Paul Schrader First Reformed [19]
Bo Burnham Eighth Grade [20]
Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara The Favourite
2019 Noah Baumbach Marriage Story [21]
Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won Parasite [22]
Quentin Tarantino Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

2020s

Year Winners Film Ref
2020 Aaron Sorkin The Trial of the Chicago 7 [23]
Emerald Fennell Promising Young Woman [24]
Jack Fincher Mank
2021 Adam McKay and David Sirota Don't Look Up [25]
Kenneth Branagh Belfast [26]
Maggie Gyllenhaal The Lost Daughter
2022 Martin McDonagh The Banshees of Inisherin [27]
Todd Field Tár [28]
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert Everything Everywhere All at Once
2023 Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach Barbie [29]
Christopher Nolan Oppenheimer [30]
Justine Triet, Arthur Harari Anatomy of a Fall

References

  1. ^ "Vancouver critics pick I Killed My Mother". CBC News, January 13, 2010.
  2. ^ Craig Takeuchi, "Vancouver Film Critics Circle: Up in the Air, J'ai tué ma mí¨re lead nominations". The Georgia Straight, January 4, 2010.
  3. ^ "Incendies, Barney’s lead Vancouver Critics Awards". Playback, January 11, 2011.
  4. ^ Glen Schaefer, "Incendies gets five nods from Vancouver film critics". The Province, January 4, 2011.
  5. ^ "Vancouver critics name The Artist top film of 2011". The Globe and Mail, January 10, 2012.
  6. ^ "VFCC Announces 12th Annual Award Nominees". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, January 2, 2012.
  7. ^ "Beyond the Black Rainbow, War Witch win at Vancouver critics awards". Playback, January 8, 2013.
  8. ^ "2013 VFCC Nominees Announced!". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 27, 2012.
  9. ^ "The Dirties cleans up in Vancouver; Film critics give top prizes to Matt Johnson, 12 Years a Slave". Edmonton Journal, January 9, 2014.
  10. ^ "And the 2014 VFCC nominees are...". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 22, 2013.
  11. ^ "Tu dors Nicole and Mommy top Canadian winners at Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards". The Georgia Straight, January 6, 2015.
  12. ^ "2015 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 22, 2014.
  13. ^ "Vancouver Film Critics Honour ‘Haida Gwaii’". Point of View, January 7, 2016.
  14. ^ "2016 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 14, 2015.
  15. ^ "Hello Destroyer wins big with VFCC". Playback, January 11, 2017.
  16. ^ "2017 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 16, 2016.
  17. ^ "Never Steady, Never Still takes the big prizes at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards". The Georgia Straight, January 9, 2018.
  18. ^ "2018 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 15, 2017.
  19. ^ "Vancouver Film Critics Circle names Edge of the Knife top Canadian feature film". Toronto Star, January 8, 2019.
  20. ^ Josh Cabrita, "2019 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 14, 2018.
  21. ^ "Vancouver film critics award 'The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open'". Tri-City News, January 7, 2020.
  22. ^ Adrian Mack, "Marriage Story dominates Vancouver Film Critics Circle noms". The Georgia Straight, December 13, 2019.
  23. ^ Etan Vlessing, "Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Named Best Feature by Vancouver Film Critics Circle". The Hollywood Reporter, February 22, 2021.
  24. ^ Etan Vlessing, "Vancouver Film Critics Circle: 'Mank' Leads With Five Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter, February 19, 2021.
  25. ^ Dana Gee, "The Power of the Dog named year's best feature by Vancouver Film Critics Circle". Vancouver Sun, March 8, 2022.
  26. ^ Dana Gee, "The Power of the Dog, Night Raiders lead Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards nominations". Vancouver Sun, February 20, 2022.
  27. ^ Vlessing, Etan (February 13, 2023). "'Everything Everywhere All at Once' Named Best Feature by Vancouver Film Critics". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 13, 2023.
  28. ^ "Vancouver Film Critics Announce Nominees". Northern Stars. January 23, 2023. Retrieved January 23, 2023.
  29. ^ 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.
  30. ^ Vlessing, Etan (January 22, 2024). "'Oppenheimer' Leads Vancouver Film Critics Circle Nominations With Six Nods". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 23, 2024.