The winners of the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor are listed below.
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Chris Cooper | Adaptation. | John Laroche |
| Christopher Walken | Catch Me If You Can | Frank Abagnale, Sr. | |
| Dennis Quaid | Far from Heaven | Frank Whitaker | |
| 2003 | Alec Baldwin | The Cooler | Shelly Kaplow |
| Benicio del Toro | 21 Grams | Jack Jordan | |
| Tim Robbins | Mystic River | Dave Boyle | |
| 2004 | Morgan Freeman | Million Dollar Baby | Eddie Dupris |
| Thomas Haden Church | Sideways | Jack Cole | |
| Clive Owen | Closer | Larry Gray | |
| 2005 | Terrence Howard | Crash | Cameron Thayer |
| Matt Dillon | Crash | John Ryan | |
| Paul Giamatti | Cinderella Man | Joe Gould | |
| 2006 | Alan Arkin | Little Miss Sunshine | Edwin Hoover |
| Steve Carell | Little Miss Sunshine | Frank Ginsberg | |
| Brad Pitt | Babel | Richard Jones | |
| 2007 | Javier Bardem | No Country for Old Men | Anton Chigurh |
| Casey Affleck | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | ||
| Tom Wilkinson | Michael Clayton | Arthur Edens | |
| 2008 | Heath Ledger | The Dark Knight | The Joker |
| Josh Brolin | Milk | ||
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | Doubt | Brendan Flynn | |
| 2009 | Christoph Waltz | Inglourious Basterds | Col. Hans Landa |
| Stanley Tucci | The Lovely Bones | George Harvey | |
| Alfred Molina | An Education | Jack Miller | |
| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | |||
| Daniel Kaluuya | Judas and the Black Messiah | Fred Hampton | |
| Sacha Baron Cohen | The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Abbie Hoffman | |
| Leslie Odom, Jr. | One Night in Miami... | Sam Cooke | |
| 2021 | Troy Kotsur | CODA | Frank Rossi |
| Licorice Pizza | |||
| The Power of the Dog | George Burbank | ||
| The Power of the Dog | Peter Gordon | ||
| 2022 | Brendan Gleeson | The Banshees of Inisherin | Colm Doherty |
| The Banshees of Inisherin | Dominic Kearney | ||
| Everything Everywhere All at Once | Waymond Wang | ||
| 2023 | Robert Downey Jr. | Oppenheimer | Lewis Strauss |
| Poor Things | Godwin Baxter | ||
| Killers of the Flower Moon | William King Hale |