The Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director is an annual film award given by the Boston Society of Film Critics.

Winners 1980s YearWinnerFilm1980 Roman Polanski Tess1981 Steven Spielberg Raiders of the Lost Ark1982 Steven Spielberg E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial1983 Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani The Night of the Shooting Stars (La notte di San Lorenzo)1984 Bertrand Tavernier A Sunday in the Country (Un dimanche à la campagne)1985 John Huston Prizzi's Honor1986 David Lynch Blue VelvetOliver Stone Platoon1987 Stanley Kubrick Full Metal Jacket1988 Stephen Frears Dangerous Liaisons1989 Woody Allen Crimes and Misdemeanors

1990s YearWinnerFilm1990 Martin Scorsese Goodfellas1991 Jonathan Demme The Silence of the Lambs1992 Robert Altman The Player1993 Steven Spielberg Schindler's List1994 Quentin Tarantino Pulp Fiction1995 Ang Lee Sense and Sensibility1996 Mike Leigh Secrets & Lies1997 Curtis Hanson L.A. Confidential1998 John Boorman The General1999 David O. Russell Three Kings

2000s YearWinnerFilm2000 Cameron Crowe Almost Famous2001 David Lynch Mulholland Drive2002 Roman Polanski The Pianist2003 Sofia Coppola Lost in Translation2004 Zhang Yimou House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu)Boston film critics flip for 'Sideways' - Variety2005 Ang Lee Brokeback Mountain2006 Martin Scorsese The Departed2007 Julian Schnabel The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)2008 Gus Van Sant MilkParanoid Park2009 Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker

2010s YearWinnerFilm2010 David Fincher The Social Network2011 Martin Scorsese Hugo'The Artist' Named Best Picture by Boston Film Critics|Retuters2012 Kathryn Bigelow Zero Dark Thirty2013 Steve McQueen 12 Years a Slave2014 Richard Linklater Boyhood2015 Todd Haynes CarolL.A., Boston film critics name "Spotlight" year's best - CBS News2016 Damien Chazelle La La Land2017 Paul Thomas Anderson Phantom Thread2018 Lynne Ramsay You Were Never Really Here2019 Bong Joon-ho Parasite

2020s YearWinnerFilm2020 Chloé Zhao NomadlandThe Boston Society of Film Critics names its winners for 2020 - The Boston Globe2021 Ryusuke Hamaguchi Drive My Car2022 Todd Field TárCurrent Winners – 2022 Awards2023 Jonathan Glazer The Zone of Interest2024 Sean Baker Anora2025 Ryan Coogler Sinners

Multiple wins 3 – Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg 2 – Kathryn Bigelow, David Lynch, Roman Polanski, Ang Lee

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