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.

Winners 1980s YearWinnerDirector(s)1980 Raging Bull Martin Scorsese1981 Pixote (Pixote: A lei do mais fraco) Hector Babenco1982 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Steven Spielberg1983 The Night of the Shooting Stars (La notte di San Lorenzo)Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani1984 The Killing FieldsRoland Joffé1985 RanAkira Kurosawa1986 Blue Velvet David Lynch1987 Hope and GloryJohn Boorman1988 Bull DurhamRon Shelton1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors Woody Allen

1990s YearWinnerDirector(s)1990 Goodfellas Martin Scorsese1991 The Silence of the LambsJonathan Demme1992 Unforgiven Clint Eastwood1993 Schindler's List Steven Spielberg1994 Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino1995 Sense and Sensibility Ang Lee1996 Trainspotting Danny Boyle1997 L.A. Confidential Curtis Hanson1998 Out of Sight Steven Soderbergh1999 Three Kings David O. Russell

2000s YearWinnerDirector(s)2000 Almost Famous Cameron Crowe2001 Mulholland Drive David Lynch2002 The Pianist Roman Polanski2003 Mystic River Clint Eastwood2004 Sideways Alexander PayneBoston film critics flip for 'Sideways' - Variety2005 Brokeback Mountain Ang Lee2006 The Departed Martin Scorsese2007 No Country for Old Men Joel Coen and Ethan Coen2008 Slumdog Millionaire WALL-E Danny Boyle Andrew Stanton2009 The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow

2010s YearWinnerDirector(s)2010 The Social Network David Fincher2011 The Artist Michel Hazanavicius'The Artist' Named Best Picture by Boston Film Critics|Retuters2012 Zero Dark Thirty Kathryn Bigelow2013 12 Years a Slave Steve McQueen2014 Boyhood Richard Linklater2015 Spotlight Thomas McCarthy2016 La La Land Damien Chazelle2017 Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson2018 If Beale Street Could Talk Barry Jenkins2019 Little Women Greta Gerwig

2020s YearWinnerDirector(s)2020 Nomadland Chloé ZhaoThe Boston Society of Film Critics names its winners for 2020 - The Boston Globe2021 Drive My Car Ryusuke Hamaguchi2022 Return to Seoul Davy Chou2023 The Holdovers Alexander Payne2024 Anora Sean Baker2025 Sinners Ryan Coogler

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