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

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	^[2]

Year	Winners	Film	Ref
2010	Aaron Sorkin	The Social Network	^[3]
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	True Grit	^[4]
	Christopher Nolan	Inception	^[4]
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	^[8]
2013	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	Inside Llewyn Davis	^[9]
	Spike Jonze	Her	^[10]
	John Ridley	12 Years a Slave	^[10]
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	^[12]
2015	Charlie Kaufman	Anomalisa	^[13]
	Emma Donoghue	Room	^[14]
	Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer	Spotlight	^[14]
2016	Kenneth Lonergan	Manchester by the Sea	^[15]
	Barry Jenkins	Moonlight	^[16]
	Taylor Sheridan	Hell or High Water	^[16]
2017	Jordan Peele	Get Out	^[17]
	Greta Gerwig	Lady Bird	^[18]
	Martin McDonagh	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	^[18]
2018	Paul Schrader	First Reformed	^[19]
	Bo Burnham	Eighth Grade	^[20]
	Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara	The Favourite	^[20]
2019	Noah Baumbach	Marriage Story	^[21]
	Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won	Parasite	^[22]
	Quentin Tarantino	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	^[22]

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