BSFC Winners 2020s

2020 (Dec. 13)

Best Picture  – Nomadland

Best Actor – Anthony Hopkins, The Father

Best Actress – Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Best Supporting Actor – Paul Raci, Sound of Metal

Best Supporting Actress – Youn Yuh-jung, Minari

Best Director – Chloe Zhao, Nomadland

Best Screenplay – Charlie Kaufman, I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Best Cinematography – Joshua James Richards, Nomadland

Best Documentary – Collective

Best Non-English Language Film  (awarded in memory of Jay Carr) – La Llorona

Best Animated Film – The Wolf House

Best Film Editing (awarded in memory of Karen Schmeer) – Robert Frazen, I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Best New Filmmaker (awarded in memory of David Brudnoy) – Florian Zeller, The Father

Best Ensemble Cast – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best Original Score – Emile Mosseri, Minari

BSFC 2020 Awards for Repertory Cinema & Commendations

2021 (Dec. 12)

Best Picture  – Drive My Car

Best Actor – Hidetoshi Nishijima, Drive My Car

Best Actress – Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza

Best Supporting Actor – Troy Kotsur, CODA

Best Supporting Actress – Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter

Best Director -Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car

Best Screenplay – Ryūsuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe, Drive My Car

Best Cinematography – Ari Wegner, The Power of the Dog

Best Documentary – Summer of Soul (or… When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Best English Language Film  – The Power of the Dog*

Best Animated Film – Flee

Best Film Editing (awarded in memory of Karen Schmeer) – Affonso Gonçalves & Adam Kurnitz, The Velvet Underground

Best New Filmmaker (awarded in memory of David Brudnoy) – Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter

Best Ensemble Cast – Licorice Pizza

Best Original Score – Jonny Greenwood, Spencer

BSFC 2021 Awards for Repertory Cinema & Commendations

* Per Boston Society of Film Critics By-Laws, if the winner for Best Picture is a Non-English Language film, then the final vote is for Best English Language Film. The last instance of this was in 1985, where Akira Kurosawa’s Ran won Best Picture, and Best English Language Film was awarded to John Huston’s Prizzi’s Honor.

2022 (Dec. 11)

Best Film – Return to Seoul

Best Actor – Colin Farrell, recognized for his work in both The Banshees of Inisherin & After Yang

Best Actress – Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Supporting Actor – Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Supporting Actress – Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Director – Todd Field, TÁR

Best Original Screenplay – Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Adapted Screenplay – Kogonada, After Yang

Best Cinematography – Eliot Rockett, recognized for his work on both Pearl & X

Best Documentary (awarded in memory of Lucia Small) – All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Best English Language Film  – The Banshees of Inisherin*

Best Animated Film – Turning Red 

Best Film Editing (awarded in memory of Karen Schmeer) – TIE: Kim Sang-bum, Decision to Leave & Blair McClendon, Aftersun

Best New Filmmaker (awarded in memory of David Brudnoy) – Charlotte Wells, Aftersun

Best Ensemble Cast – TIE: Jackass Forever & Women Talking

Best Original Score – M.M. Keeravani, RRR

BSFC 2022 Awards for Repertory Cinema & Commendations

*Per Boston Society of Film Critics voting rules, if the winner for Best Film is a Non-English Language film, then the final vote is for Best English Language Film. The other instances of this were in 1985 — where Akira Kurosawa’s Ran won Best Film, and Best English Language Film was awarded to John Huston’s Prizzi’s Honor — and in 2021, when Best Film went to Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car and Best English Language Film was won by Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog.