Boston Society of Film Critics Awards

Best Director

Year Winner Recipients
2025 Sinners Ryan Coogler
2024 Anora Sean Baker
2023 The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer
2022 TÁR Todd Field
2021 Drive My Car Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
2020 Nomadland Chloé Zhao
2019 Parasite Bong Joon-ho
2018 You Were Never Really Here Lynne Ramsay
2017 Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
2016 La La Land Damien Chazelle
2015 Carol Todd Haynes
2014 Boyhood Richard Linklater
2013 12 Years a Slave Steve McQueen
2012 Zero Dark Thirty Kathryn Bigelow
2011 Hugo Martin Scorsese
2010 The Social Network David Fincher

Best Ensemble

Year Winner Recipients
2025 Marty Supreme
2024 Sing Sing
2023 Oppenheimer
2021 Licorice Pizza
2020 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Best Actor

Year Winner Recipients
2025 Blue Moon Ethan Hawke
2024 A Complete Unknown Timothée Chalamet
2023 The Holdovers Paul Giamatti
2022 The Banshees of Inisherin Colin Farrell
2021 Drive My Car Hidetoshi Nishijima
2020 The Father Anthony Hopkins
2019 Uncut Gems Adam Sandler
2018 Stan & Ollie John C. Reilly
2017 Get Out Daniel Kaluuya
2016 Manchester by the Sea Casey Affleck
2015 Love & Mercy Paul Dano
2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Michael Keaton
2013 12 Years a Slave Chiwetel Ejiofor
2012 Lincoln Daniel Day-Lewis
2011 Moneyball Brad Pitt
2010 The Social Network Jesse Eisenberg

Best Actress

Year Winner Recipients
2025 If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Rose Byrne
2024 Anora Mikey Madison
2023 Killers of the Flower Moon Lily Gladstone
2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once Michelle Yeoh
2021 Licorice Pizza Alana Haim
2020 Never Rarely Sometimes Always Sidney Flanigan
2019 Little Women Saoirse Ronan
2018 Can You Ever Forgive Me? Melissa McCarthy
2017 The Shape of Water Sally Hawkins
2016 Elle Isabelle Huppert
2015 45 Years Charlotte Rampling
2014 The Immigrant Marion Cotillard
2013 Blue Jasmine Cate Blanchett
2012 Amour Emmanuelle Riva
2011 My Week with Marilyn Michelle Williams
2010 Black Swan Natalie Portman

Best Supporting Actor

Year Winner Recipients
2025 Sentimental Value Stellan Skarsgård
2024 A Complete Unknown Edward Norton
2023 Barbie Ryan Gosling
2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once Ke Huy Quan
2021 CODA Troy Kotsur
2020 Sound of Metal Paul Raci
2019 Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood Brad Pitt
2018 Can You Ever Forgive Me? Richard E. Grant
2017 The Florida Project Willem Dafoe
2016 Moonlight Mahershala Ali
2015 Bridge of Spies Mark Rylance
2014 Whiplash J.K. Simmons
2013 Enough Said James Gandolfini
2012 The Perks of Being a Wallflower Ezra Miller
2011 Drive Albert Brooks
2010 The Fighter Christian Bale

Best Supporting Actress

Year Winner Recipients
2025 Weapons Amy Madigan
2024 The Piano Lesson Danielle Deadwyler
2023 The Holdovers Da'Vine Joy Randolph
2022 The Banshees of Inisherin Kerry Condon
2021 The Lost Daughter Jessie Buckley
2020 Minari Youn Yuh-jung
2019 Marriage Story Laura Dern
2018 If Beale Street Could Talk Regina King
2017 Lady Bird Laurie Metcalf
2016 Certain Women Lily Gladstone
2015 Clouds of Sils Maria Kristen Stewart
2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Emma Stone
2013 Nebraska June Squibb
2012 Lincoln Sally Field
2011 Bridesmaids Melissa McCarthy
2010 Conviction Juliette Lewis

Best International Film

Year Winner Recipients
2025 Sentimental Value
2024 Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
2023 The Zone of Interest
2020 La Llorona
2019 Parasite
2018 Shoplifters
2017 The Square
2016 The Handmaiden
2015 The Look of Silence
2014 Two Days, One Night
2013 Wadjda
2012 Amour
2011 Incendies
2010 Mother

Best Adapted Screenplay

Year Winner Recipients
2025 One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
2024 Nickel Boys RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes
2023 The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer
2022 After Yang Kogonada

Best Original Screenplay

Year Winner Recipients
2025 Blue Moon Robert Kaplow
2024 Anora Sean Baker
2023 The Holdovers David Hemingson
2022 The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh

Best Animated Feature

Year Winner Recipients
2025 Endless Cookie
2024 Flow
2023 The Boy and the Heron
2022 Turning Red
2021 Flee
2020 The Wolf House
2019 I Lost My Body
2018 Isle of Dogs
2017 Coco
2016 Tower
2015 Anomalisa
2014 The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
2013 The Wind Rises
2012 Frankenweenie
2011 Rango
2010 Toy Story 3

Best Cinematography

Year Winner Recipients
2025 Sinners Autumn Durald

Best Documentary

Year Winner Recipients
2023 Geographies of Solitude

Best Screenplay

Year Winner Recipients
2021 Drive My Car Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe
2020 I'm Thinking of Ending Things Charlie Kaufman
2019 Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood Quentin Tarantino
2018 Can You Ever Forgive Me? Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty
2017 Lady Bird Greta Gerwig
2016 Manchester by the Sea Kenneth Lonergan
2015 Spotlight Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer
2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo
2013 Enough Said Nicole Holofcener
2012 Lincoln Tony Kushner
2011 Moneyball Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Stan Chervin
2010 The Social Network Aaron Sorkin