The Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film is one of the annual film awards given by the Boston Society of Film Critics.
| Year | Winner | Director(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | |
| 1981 | Pixote (Pixote: A lei do mais fraco) | Hector Babenco | |
| 1982 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg | |
| 1983 | The Night of the Shooting Stars (La notte di San Lorenzo) | Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani | |
| 1984 | The Killing Fields | Roland Joffé | |
| 1985 | Ran | Akira Kurosawa | |
| 1986 | Blue Velvet | David Lynch | |
| 1987 | Hope and Glory | John Boorman | |
| 1988 | Bull Durham | Ron Shelton | |
| 1989 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | Woody Allen |
| Year | Winner | Director(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Goodfellas | Martin Scorsese | |
| 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme | |
| 1992 | Unforgiven | Clint Eastwood | |
| 1993 | Schindler's List | Steven Spielberg | |
| 1994 | Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino | |
| 1995 | Sense and Sensibility | Ang Lee | |
| 1996 | Trainspotting | Danny Boyle | |
| 1997 | L.A. Confidential | Curtis Hanson | |
| 1998 | Out of Sight | Steven Soderbergh | |
| 1999 | Three Kings | David O. Russell |
| Year | Winner | Director(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Almost Famous | Cameron Crowe | |
| 2001 | Mulholland Drive | David Lynch | |
| 2002 | The Pianist | Roman Polanski | |
| 2003 | Mystic River | Clint Eastwood | |
| 2004 | Sideways | Alexander Payne[2] | |
| 2005 | Brokeback Mountain | Ang Lee | |
| 2006 | The Departed | Martin Scorsese | |
| 2007 | No Country for Old Men | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | |
| 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire WALL-E | Danny Boyle Andrew Stanton | |
| 2009 | The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow |
| Year | Winner | Director(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | The Social Network | David Fincher | ||
| 2011 | The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius[3] | ||
| 2012 | Zero Dark Thirty | Kathryn Bigelow | ||
| 2013 | 12 Years a Slave | Steve McQueen | ||
| 2014 | Boyhood | Richard Linklater | ||
| 2015 | Spotlight | Thomas McCarthy | ||
| 2016 | La La Land | Damien Chazelle | ||
| 2017 | Phantom Thread | Paul Thomas Anderson | ||
| 2018 | If Beale Street Could Talk | Barry Jenkins | ||
| 2019 | Little Women | Greta Gerwig[4] |
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Nomadland | Chloé Zhao[5] |
| 2021 | Drive My Car | Ryusuke Hamaguchi |
| 2022 | Return to Seoul | Davy Chou |
| 2023 | The Holdovers | Alexander Payne |