Boston Society of Film Critics Best Picture Winners by Award Year
854
2023 P*
Alexander Payne
Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Preston, Brady Hepner
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2301
2023 P
Todd Haynes
Natalie Portman, Chris Tenzis, Charles Melton, Julianne Moore, Andrea Frankle
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
702
2023 P,F*
Jonathan Glazer
Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, Ralph Herforth, Max Beck, Marie Rosa Tietjen
Drama / History / War / Period Film
USA / UK / Poland
English
1087
2022 P*
Martin McDonagh
Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan
Drama / Comedy
Ireland / UK / USA
English
2788
2022 P*
Davy Chou
Park Ji-Min, Oh Kwang-rok, Guka Han, Kim Sun-young, Yoann Zimmer
Drama
France / Germany / Belgium / South Korea / Romania / Cambodia / Qatar
French
1098
2021 P*
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tôko Miura, Reika Kirishima, Yoo-rim Park, Dae-Young Jin
Drama
Japan
Japanese
864
2021 P*
Jane Campion
Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Drama / Romance / Western
UK / Australia / USA / Canada / New Zealand
English
567
2020 P*
Chloé Zhao
Frances McDormand, Gay DeForest, Patricia Grier, Linda May, Angela Reyes
Drama / Adventure
USA / Germany
English
1880
2020 P
Kelly Reichardt
John Magaro, Orion Lee, Rene Auberjonois, Toby Jones, Ewen Bremner
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2114
2020 F*
Jayro Bustamante
María Mercedes Coroy, Sabrina De La Hoz, Margarita Kenéfic
Crime / Drama / Horror / Thriller / War
Guatemala / France
Spanish
2287
2020 F
Václav Marhoul
Stellan Skarsgård, Harvey Keitel, Barry Pepper, Julian Sands, Udo Kier
Drama / War / Period Film
Czech Republic / Slovakia / Ukraine
Czech
1342
2019 P*
Greta Gerwig
Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Timothée Chalamet, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
802
2019 P,F
Céline Sciamma
Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami, Valeria Golino
Drama / Romance
France
French
399
2019 F*
Joon-ho Bong
Kang-ho Song, Yeo-jeong Jo, So-dam Park, Woo-sik Choi, Sun-kyun Lee, Seo-joon Park
Comedy / Drama / Thriller
South Korea
Korean
1325
2018 P*
Barry Jenkins
KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King, Colman Domingo, Teyonah Parris
Crime / Drama / Romance
USA
English
996
2018 P,F*
Hirokazu Koreeda
Lily Franky, Kirin Kiki, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Sakura Andô, Mayu Matsuoka
Crime / Drama
Japan
Japanese
955
2018 F
Pawel Pawlikowski
Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn
Drama / Music / Romance / History / Period Film
Poland / UK / France
Polish
1539
2017 P*
Paul Thomas Anderson
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, Vicky Krieps, Sue Clark, Joan Brown
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
907
2017 P
Guillermo del Toro
Doug Jones, Michael Shannon, Sally Hawkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, Octavia Spencer
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Romance | Thriller | War
USA
English
1363
2017 F*
Ruben Östlund
Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West, Terry Notary
Comedy / Drama
Sweden / Germany / France / Denmark
Swedish
1300
2017 F
Robin Campillo
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz
Drama / Romance
France
French
579
2016 P*
Damien Chazelle
Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, J.K. Simmons, Finn Wittrock
Musical / Romance / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
848
2016 P
Kenneth Lonergan
Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, Liam McNeill
Drama
USA
English
1361
2016 F*
Chan-wook Park
Min-hee Kim, Tae-ri Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Jin-woong Jo, So-ri Moon, Hae-suk Kim
Drama / Romance / Thriller
South Korea
Korean
2521
2016 F
Mia Hansen-Løve
Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka, Edith Scob, Sarah Le Picard
Drama
France / Germany
French
699
2015 P*
Tom McCarthy
Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller
USA
English
691
2015 P
George Miller
Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Josh Helman
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Australia / USA
English
2037
2015 F*
Joshua Oppenheimer
Documentary / War / History / Biography
Denmark / Finland / Norway / Indonesia / UK
Indonesian
2813
2015 F
Kornél Mundruczó
Zsófia Psotta, Sándor Zsótér, Lili Horváth
Drama
Hungary / Germany / Sweden
Hungarian
512
2014 P*
Richard Linklater
Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Elijah Smith, Lorelei Linklater
Drama
USA
English
834
2014 P
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
1464
2014 F*
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Pili Groyne, Simon Caudry
Drama
Belgium / France / Italy
French
868
2014 F
Pawel Pawlikowski
Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Joanna Kulig, Dawid Ogrodnik, Adam Szyszkowski
Drama / Religion
Poland / Denmark
Polish
619
2013 P*
Steve McQueen
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dwight Henry, Dickie Gravois, Bryan Batt, Ashley Dyke
Biography / Drama / History
USA / UK
English
963
2013 P
Martin Scorsese
Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Jonah Hill, Jon Bernthal
Biography / Comedy / Crime / Drama
USA
English
2180
2013 F*
Haifaa Al-Mansour
Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Algohani, Ahd Kamel, Sultan Al Assaf
Drama
Saudi Arabia / Germany
Arabic
761
2013 F
Abdellatif Kechiche
Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Jeremie Laheurte
Drama / Comic / Romance
France
French
644
2012 P*
Kathryn Bigelow
Jason Clarke, Reda Kateb, Jessica Chastain, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Ehle
Action / Drama / History / Thriller / War
USA
English
1590
2012 P
Wes Anderson
Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Kara Hayward, Frances McDormand
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
453
2012 F*,P
Michael Haneke
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Alexandre Tharaud
Drama
France / Germany / Austria
French
1382
2012 F
Leos Carax
Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue, Elise Lhomeau, Jeanne Disson
Drama / Fantasy
France / Germany
French
623
2011 P*
Michel Hazanavicius
Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, Missi Pyle
Romance / Comedy / Drama
France / Belgium
English (Semi-Silent)
886
2011 P
Martin Scorsese
Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz
Adventure / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Mystery / Period Film
USA
English
1655
2011 P
Kenneth Lonergan
Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, Jean Reno, Matthew Broderick
Drama
USA
English
1279
2011 F*
Denis Villeneuve
Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Rémy Girard
Drama
Canada
French
2683
2011 F
Chang-dong Lee
Jeong-hie Yun, Da-wit Lee, Nae-sang Ahn, Hira Kim, Yong-taek Kim
Drama
South Korea
Korean
511
2011 F
Asghar Farhadi
Peyman Moaadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini, Sarina Farhadi
Drama
Iran
Persian
413
2010 P*
David Fincher
Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Rashida Jones, Rooney Mara
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
1193
2010 P
Lee Unkrich
Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty, Don Rickles, Michael Keaton
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
USA
English
2036
2010 F*
Joon-ho Bong
Hye-ja Kim, Bin Won, Ku Jin, Yoon Jae-Moon, Mi-sun Jun, Young-Suck Lee
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
South Korea
Korean
1605
2010 F
Luca Guadagnino
Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Alba Rohrwacher, Pippo Delbono
Drama / Romance
Italy
Italian
291
2009 P*
Kathryn Bigelow
Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes
Action / Drama / Thriller / War
USA
English
2005
2009 F*
Olivier Assayas
Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier, Edith Scob
Drama / Family
France
French
412
2008 P*
Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan
Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal, Anil Kapoor, Irfan Khan, Tanay Chheda
Comedy / Drama / Romance
UK / USA
English
824
2008 P*
Andrew Stanton
Ben Burtt, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, Elissa Knight, John Ratzenberger
Animation / Comedy / Family / Romance / Sci-Fi / Adventure
USA
English
918
2008 P
Gus Van Sant
Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco, Alison Pill
Biography / Drama
USA
English
377
2008 F*
Tomas Alfredson
Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl, Karin Bergquist
Drama / Horror / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
446
2008 F
Ari Folman
Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ari Folman, Dror Harazi, Yehezkel Lazarov, Mickey Leon
Animation / Biography / Drama / War / History
Israel / Germany / France
Hebrew
258
2007 P*
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
414
2007 F*,P
Julian Schnabel
Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny
Biography / Drama
France / USA
French
612
2006 P*
Martin Scorsese
Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
1134
2006 P
Paul Greengrass
Christian Clemenson, Trish Gates, Polly Adams, Cheyenne Jackson, Opal Alladin
Drama / History
France / UK / USA
English
175
2006 F*
Guillermo del Toro
Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Ariadna Gil, Doug Jones
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller / War / Period Film
Mexico / Spain / USA
Spanish
989
2006 F
Pedro Almodóvar
Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo
Comedy / Drama
Spain
Spanish
179
2005 P*
Ang Lee
Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway
Drama / Romance / Western
USA
English
1015
2005 P
Steven Spielberg
Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler
Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
1975
2005 F*
Stephen Chow
Stephen Chow, Xiaogang Feng, Wah Yuen, Zhi Hua Dong, Kwok Kuen Chan
Action / Comedy / Crime / Fantasy / Period Film / Gangster
China / Hong Kong
Cantonese
1217
2005 F
Kar Wai Wong
Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Li Gong, Takuya Kimura, Faye Wong, Ziyi Zhang
Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi
China / France / Germany / Hong Kong
Cantonese
304
2004 P*
Alexander Payne
Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh
Adventure / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1166
2004 P
Richard Linklater
Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff, Louise Lemoine Torres
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
663
2004 F*
Yimou Zhang
Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Ziyi Zhang, Dandan Song
Action / Drama / Romance / Period Film
China / Hong Kong
Mandarin
1722
2004 F
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Dominique Pinon, Chantal Neuwirth
Drama / Mystery / Romance / War / Period Film
France / USA
French
533
2003 P*
Clint Eastwood
Sean Penn, Tim Robbins
Drama / Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
346
2003 P
Sofia Coppola
Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray
Drama / Comedy
USA / Japan
English
712
2003 P
Peter Weir
Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, James D'Arcy, Edward Woodall
Action / Drama / Adventure / War
USA
English
931
2003 F*
Sylvain Chomet
Béatrice Bonifassi, Lina Boudreault, Michèle Caucheteux
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Gangster / Sports
France / Belgium / Canada / UK
French
1251
2003 F
Gaspar Noé
Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Jo Prestia, Philippe Nahon
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Crime
France
French
253
2002 P*
Roman Polanski
Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay, Thomas Kretschmann, Maureen Lipman, Katarzyna Figura
Drama / War / Period Film
Poland / France / UK / Germany / Netherlands
English
553
2002 P
Martin Scorsese
Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz
Crime / Drama / Epic / Period Film / History / Gangster
USA / Germany / Italy / UK / Netherlands
English
144
2002 F*
Alfonso Cuarón
Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Diana Bracho
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Adventure
Mexico / USA
Spanish
1602
2002 F
Laurent Cantet
Aurélien Recoing, Karin Viard, Serge Livrozet
Drama
France
French
82
2001 P*
David Lynch
Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya, Justin Theroux, Brent Briscoe
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Experimental / Post-Noir / Cult
France / USA
English
211
2001 P
Peter Jackson
Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Ian Holm, Andy Serkis
Fantasy / Adventure / Action / Epic / Family / Cult
New Zealand / USA
English
428
2001 F*
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal
Thriller / Drama
Mexico
Spanish
52
2001 F
Kar Wai Wong
Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ping Lam Siu, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung
Romance / Drama / Period Film
Hong Kong / France / Thailand
Cantonese
708
2000 P*
Cameron Crowe
Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Jason Lee
Drama / Comedy / Music
USA
English
900
2000 P
Steven Soderbergh
Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
264
2000 P,F
Edward Yang
Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issei Ogata, Kelly Lee, Jonathan Chang
Drama
Taiwan / Japan
Mandarin
124
2000 F*
Ang Lee
Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Chen Chang, Sihung Lung, Pei-pei Cheng
Adventure / Drama / Action / Fantasy / Romance / Period Film
Taiwan / Hong Kong / USA / China
Mandarin
2222
2000 F
Majid Majidi
Hossein Mahjoub, Mohsen Ramezani, Salameh Feyzi, Farahnaz Safari, Elham Sharifi
Drama
Iran
Persian
625
1999 P*
David O. Russell
George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze
War / Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Caper
USA
English
123
1999 F*
Pedro Almodóvar
Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Penélope Cruz
Drama / Comedy
Spain / France
Spanish
1311
1998 P*
Steven Soderbergh
George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
439
1998 F*
Abbas Kiarostami
Homayon Ershadi, Abdolrahman Bagheri, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Safar Ali Moradi
Drama
France / Iran
Persian
67
1997 P*
Curtis Hanson
Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Post-Noir / Period Film
USA
English
1318
1997 F*
Emir Kusturica
Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic
Drama / Comedy / War / Epic
France / Fed Rep of Yugoslavia / Germany / Hungary
Serbo-Croatian
596
1996 P*
Danny Boyle
Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd
Drama / Comedy
UK
English
2573
1996 F*
André Téchiné
Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Marthe Villalonga
Drama
France
French
488
1995 P*
Ang Lee
Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Period Film
USA / UK
English
2788
1995 F*
Martine Dugowson
Romane Bohringer, Elsa Zylberstein, Florence Thomassin
Drama
Netherlands / France / Belgium
French
19
1994 P*
Quentin Tarantino
John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Willis
Crime / Drama / Gangster / Post-Noir / Cult
USA
English
133
1994 F*
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Drama / Romance
Poland / France / Switzerland
French
36
1993 P*
Steven Spielberg
Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall
Drama / War / Biography / Epic
USA
English
142
1993 F*
Kaige Chen
Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Li Gong, Qi Lu, Da Ying, You Ge, Chun Li
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Epic
China / Hong Kong
Mandarin
77
1991 P*
Jonathan Demme
Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, Ted Levine
Thriller / Crime / Detective / Cult / Horror
USA
English
727
1991 F*
Agnieszka Holland
Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider
Drama / War / Comedy
Germany / France / Poland
German
26
1990 P*
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino
Crime / Drama / Biography / Gangster
USA
English
1231
1990 F*
Patrice Leconte
Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Luc Thuillier
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Post-Noir
France
French
646
1988 P*
Ron Shelton
Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Trey Wilson
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sports
USA
English
726
1987 P*
Lasse Hallström
Anton Glanzelius, Tomas von Brömssen, Anki Lidén
Drama / Comedy / Family
Sweden
Swedish
128
1986 P*
David Lynch
Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
1703
1986 F*
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Jean-Hugues Anglade, Béatrice Dalle, Gérard Darmon
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France
French
50
1985 P*
Akira Kurosawa
Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Harada
Drama / War / Epic / History / Period Film
Japan / France
Japanese
630
1984 F*
Bertrand Tavernier
Sabine Azéma, Louis Ducreux, Michel Aumont, Geneviève Mnich
Drama / Period Film
France
French
555
1983 P*
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli, Miriam Guidelli
Drama / Fantasy / War
Italy
Italian
34
1982 P*
Steven Spielberg
Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote
Family / Sci-Fi / Adventure / Fantasy / Drama
USA
English
1572
1982 F*
Francesco Rosi
Philippe Noiret, Michele Placido
Drama
France / Italy
Italian
2322
1981 F*
Bertrand Blier
Patrick Dewaere, Ariel Besse, Maurice Ronet, Geneviève Mnich
Drama / Romance
France
French
2788
1981 F*
Frank Ripploh
Frank Ripploh, Bernd Broaderup, Orpha Termin, Peter Fahrni, Dieter Godde
Comedy / Drama
West Germany
German
18
1980 P*
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto
Drama / Biography / Sports
USA
English
609
1980 F*
François Truffaut
Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu
Drama / Romance / War
France
French
