The Vancouver Film Critics Circle One to Watch Award is a Canadian film award, presented as part of the Vancouver Film Critics Circle's annual awards program to honour breakthrough work by emerging filmmakers and performers in the Canadian film industry.
First presented as in 2014 as Best First Canadian Film and awarded exclusively to first-time directors, the award was renamed to "One to Watch" in 2017, with its focus expanded at that time to permit the award to honour breakout performances and non-debut works.
The winner of the award receives a $500 prize from Telefilm Canada.
| width=5% | Year | width=45% | Honoree | width=45% | Film | width=5% | |
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| 2014 | Andrew Huculiak | Violent | [1] | ||||
| Kyle Thomas | The Valley Below | [2] | |||||
| Ana Valine | Sitting on the Edge of Marlene | ||||||
| 2015 | Andrew Cividino | Sleeping Giant | [3] | ||||
| Lindsay MacKay | Wet Bum | [4] | |||||
| Kurt Walker | Hit 2 Pass | ||||||
| 2016 | Ashley McKenzie | Werewolf | [5] | ||||
| Sofia Bohdanowicz | Never Eat Alone | [6] | |||||
| Kevan Funk | Hello Destroyer | ||||||
| 2017 | Cody Bown | Gregoire | [7] | ||||
| Winston DeGiobbi | Mass for Shut-Ins | [8] | |||||
| Seth A. Smith | The Crescent | ||||||
| 2018 | Katherine Jerkovic | Roads in February (Les routes en février) | [9] | ||||
| Drew Lint | M/M | [10] | |||||
| Jasmin Mozaffari | Firecrackers | ||||||
| Akash Sherman | Clara | ||||||
| 2019 | Matthew Rankin | The Twentieth Century | [11] | ||||
| Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers | The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open | [12] | |||||
| Heather Young | Murmur |
| width=5% | Year | width=45% | Honoree | width=45% | Film | width=5% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Titus Heckel | Chained | [13] | ||||
| Kiawenti:io Tarbell | Beans | ||||||
| Jessie Anthony | Brother, I Cry | [14] | |||||
| 2021 | Trevor Mack | Portraits from a Fire | [15] | ||||
| Pavle Čemerikić | The White Fortress (Tabija) | [16] | |||||
| Elizabeth Lazebnik | Be Still | ||||||
| 2022 | Anthony Shim | Riceboy Sleeps | [17] | ||||
| Grace Glowicki | Until Branches Bend | [18] | |||||
| Dohyun Noel Hwang | Riceboy Sleeps | ||||||
| Sophie Jarvis | Until Branches Bend | ||||||
| 2023 | Ariane Louis-Seize | Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant) | [19] | ||||
| Meredith Hama-Brown | Seagrass | [20] | |||||
| Jenny Lee-Gilmore | Overtime | ||||||
| Ally Pankiw | I Used to Be Funny |