Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress

The 2021 recipient: Frances McDormand

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

2010s

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

2020s

Year	Winner and nominees	Film	Role
2020	Frances McDormand	Nomadland	Fern
	Viola Davis	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Ma Rainey
	Carey Mulligan	Promising Young Woman	Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas