Vancouver Film Critics Circle One to Watch Award

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.

Winners and nominees

2010s

Year	Honoree	Film	Ref.
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

2020s

Year	Honoree	Film	Ref.
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

References

1. "Tu dors Nicole and Mommy top Canadian winners at Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards". The Georgia Straight, January 6, 2015.
2. "2015 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 22, 2014.
3. "Vancouver Film Critics Honour ‘Haida Gwaii’". Point of View, January 7, 2016.
4. "2016 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 14, 2015.
5. "Hello Destroyer wins big with VFCC". Playback, January 11, 2017.
6. "2017 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 16, 2016.
7. "Never Steady, Never Still takes the big prizes at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards". The Georgia Straight, January 9, 2018.
8. "2018 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 15, 2017.
9. "Vancouver Film Critics Circle names Edge of the Knife top Canadian feature film". Toronto Star, January 8, 2019.
10. Josh Cabrita, "2019 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 14, 2018.
11. "Vancouver film critics award 'The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open'". Tri-City News, January 7, 2020.
12. Adrian Mack, "Marriage Story dominates Vancouver Film Critics Circle noms". The Georgia Straight, December 13, 2019.
13. "VFCC Vote for Violation". Northern Stars, March 10, 2021.
14. Jorge Ignacio Castillo, "POSSESSOR AND CHAINED DOMINATE THE VFCC NOMINATIONS FOR BEST IN CANADIAN FILM". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, February 3, 2021.
15. Dana Gee, "The Power of the Dog named year's best feature by Vancouver Film Critics Circle". Vancouver Sun, March 8, 2022.
16. Dana Gee, "The Power of the Dog, Night Raiders lead Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards nominations". Vancouver Sun, February 20, 2022.
17. "Vancouver Film Critics Like I Like Movies". Northern Stars, February 14, 2023.
18. "Vancouver Film Critics Announce Nominees". Northern Stars. January 23, 2023. Retrieved January 23, 2023.
19. "VFCC Loves 'BlackBerry'". Northern Stars. February 13, 2024. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
20. Taimur Sikander Mirza, "BlackBerry, Seagrass lead VFCC’s Canadian nominees". Playback, January 23, 2024.