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Founded in 1981, we are a group of working film critics who embody Boston's unique critical perspective on all things cinema.

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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
2 years
WINNER, Best Ensemble: A TIE WOMEN TALKING JACKASS FOREVER
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
2 years
WINNER, Best Original Score: RRR (by M. M. Keeravani) Runner Up: WOMEN TALKING (by Hildur Guðnadóttir)
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
And the winner for Best Animated Film is: The Boy and the Heron!
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
And the winner for Best Actress is: Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon!
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
And the winner for Best Supporting Actor is: Ryan Gosling for Barbie!
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
4 years
And the winner for BEST NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM: LA LLORONA (directed by Jayro Bustamante)
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
3 years
And the winner is...for Best Actor: Hidetoshi Nishijima (Drive My Car)
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
And the winner for Best Original Score is: Robbie Robertson for Killers of the Flower Moon!
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
3 years
And the winner is...for Best Actress: Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza)
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Boston Society of Film Critics
4 years
Winner, Best Supporting Actress: Youn Yuh-jung for MINARI. Second was Amanda Seyfried for MANK.
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
3 years
And the winner is...for Best Original Score: Jonny Greenwood (Spencer)
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
And the award for Best Film goes to: The Holdovers!
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
And the winner for Best New Filmmaker is: Celine Song for Past Lives!
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
And the winner for Best Supporting Actress is: Da'Vine Joy Randolph for The Holdovers!
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
And the winner for Best Actor is: Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers!
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
2 years
WINNER, Best Actress: MICHELLE YEOH for EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, ALL AT ONCE
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Boston Society of Film Critics
4 years
Winner, Best Supporting Actor: the wonderful Paul Raci for SOUND OF METAL. Runner Up: Brian Dennehy for DRIVEWAYS.
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
3 years
Best Picture: DRIVE MY CAR
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
And the winner for Best Film Editing is: Thelma Schoonmaker for Killers of the Flower Moon!
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
4 years
And, after much discussion, the winner for Best Director: Chloé Zhao for NOMADLAND! Runner up: Kelly Reichardt for FIRST COW.
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Boston Society of Film Critics
2 years
WINNER, Best Supporting Actor: KE HUY QUAN for EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, ALL AT ONCE
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
And the winner for Best Ensemble is: Oppenheimer!
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Boston Society of Film Critics
2 years
WINNER, Best Film: RETURN TO SEOUL
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
And the winner for Best Original Screenplay is: David Hemingson for The Holdovers!
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
5 years
Winner Best Actor: Adam Sandler, UNCUT GEMS (runner up: Joaquin Phoenix, JOKER) #BSFCAwards
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Boston Society of Film Critics
4 years
Winner, Best Actress: Sidney Flanigan for NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS! Very close second: Julia Garner for THE ASSISTANT.
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Boston Society of Film Critics
3 years
Best Director award goes to: Ryusuke Hamaguchi for DRIVE MY CAR
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Boston Society of Film Critics
5 years
Winner, LITTLE WOMEN for Best Picture! Runner Up: PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE #BSFCAwards
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Boston Society of Film Critics
4 years
The winner for Best Screenplay is Charlie Kaufman for I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS. Close second: Kelly Reichardt and Jonathan Raymond for FIRST COW.
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Boston Society of Film Critics
3 years
And the winner is...for Best Supporting Actress: Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter)
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
And the winner for Best Director is: Jonathan Glazer for The Zone of Interest!
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
3 years
And the winner is...for Best Screenplay: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe (Drive My Car)
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Boston Society of Film Critics
2 years
WINNER, Best Editing: After SIX ROUNDS of voting, we have a TIE! AFTERSUN (Blair McClendon) DECISION TO LEAVE (Kim Sang-bum)
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Boston Society of Film Critics
6 years
Winner: Lynne Ramsay, YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE Runner Up: Yorgos Lanthimos, THE FAVOURITE
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Boston Society of Film Critics
2 years
WINNER, Best Cinematography: PEARL (Eliot Rockett) (We also, after some discussion, wish to recognize Eliot Rockett for his work on the companion film, X)
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Boston Society of Film Critics
4 years
And the winner for BEST SCORE is Emile Mosseri for MINARI.
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
4 years
And the winner for BEST EDITING is Robert Frazen for I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS. Close second was Chloé Zhao for NOMADLAND. Voting went to 3 rounds! It was close!
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Boston Society of Film Critics
2 years
BEST ANIMATED FILM: TURNING RED
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Boston Society of Film Critics
3 years
And the winner is...for Best New Filmmaker: Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Lost Daughter)
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
3 years
And the winner is...for Best Supporting Actor: Troy Kotsur (CODA)
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Boston Society of Film Critics
2 years
WINNER, Best Director: Todd Field for TÁR
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Boston Society of Film Critics
5 years
Winner, Best Actress: Saoirse Ronan for LITTLE WOMEN Runners up: a TIE between Elisabeth Moss (HER SMELL) and Mary Kay Place (DIANE) #BSFCAwards
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
3 years
And the winner is...for Best Cinematography: Ari Wegner (The Power of the Dog)
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
2 years
WINNER, Best Supporting Actress: Kerry Condon, for THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
And the winner for Best Adapted Screenplay is: Jonathan Glazer for The Zone of Interest!
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
And the winner for Best Cinematography is: Jonathan Ricquebourg for The Taste of Things (La passion de Dodin Bouffant)!
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Boston Society of Film Critics
9 years
Best Supporting Actress (wow, a tricky category this year): KRISTEN STEWART for CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA @TheBSFC #BSFCAwards2015
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
And the award for Best Non-English Language Film goes to: The Zone of Interest!
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Boston Society of Film Critics
2 years
WINNER: Best Adapted Screenplay, AFTER YANG by Kogonada
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Boston Society of Film Critics
3 years
Best English Language Film: THE POWER OF THE DOG
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Boston Society of Film Critics
4 years
Best Film: NOMADLAND! Runner up: FIRST COW.
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Boston Society of Film Critics
4 years
Winner, Best Actor: Anthony Hopkins for THE FATHER. Runner Up: Riz Amed, SOUND OF METAL.
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
2 years
WINNER for Best Actor: COLIN FARRELL for THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN After some discussion we also agreed to honor this wonderful actor for his fine performance in another great film this year, AFTER YANG.
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Boston Society of Film Critics
5 years
Winner: Bong Joon Ho, director of PARASITE Runner Up: Greta Gerwig for LITTLE WOMEN #BSFCAwards
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Boston Society of Film Critics
5 years
Winner, Best Supporting Actress LAURA DERN (for MARRIAGE STORY) Runner up: Florence Pugh for LITTLE WOMEN #BSFCAwards
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Boston Society of Film Critics
4 years
And the winner for BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (a lively discussion this year! as it usually is) is for NOMADLAND (Joshua James Richards). A close second was LOVERS ROCK (Shabier Kirchner).
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Boston Society of Film Critics
5 years
Winner BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: (we had to go into a third round of voting!) PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Close runner up: ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (DP Claire Mathon also worked on ATLANTICS)
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Boston Society of Film Critics
3 years
The winner for Best Ensemble Cast is LICORICE PIZZA.
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Boston Society of Film Critics
6 years
Winner, Best Film: IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK Runner Up: SHOPLIFTERS, closely followed by THE FAVOURITE
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Boston Society of Film Critics
6 years
Best Ensemble Cast: SHOPLIFTERS Runner Up: THE FAVOURITE
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Boston Society of Film Critics
2 years
WINNER, Best Original Screenplay: THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN by Martin McDonagh
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Boston Society of Film Critics
5 years
Winner, Best Foreign Language Film: PARASITE Runner Up: PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Thanks, everyone!!!
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Boston Society of Film Critics
6 years
Winner, Best Animated Film: ISLE OF DOGS Runner up: RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET
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Boston Society of Film Critics
7 years
BEST ACTOR: Daniel Kaluuya Runner Up: Timothee Chalamet Both excellent performances! @RealChalamet @danielkaluuya1
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Boston Society of Film Critics
3 years
And the winner is...for Best Animated Film: Flee (Dir. Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
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Boston Society of Film Critics
4 years
BEST FIRST FILM: Florian Zeller for THE FATHER. Close runner up: Autumn de Wilde for EMMA. Other contenders: BABYTEETH, RELIC...so many great possibilities for this
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Boston Society of Film Critics
5 years
Winner, Best Ensemble Cast: LITTLE WOMEN Runners-Up: ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, and PARASITE #BSFCAwards
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Boston Society of Film Critics
4 years
This year's winner for BEST ANIMATED FILM is THE WOLF HOUSE (Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña) Second place was WOLFWALKERS.
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Boston Society of Film Critics
3 years
And the winner is...for Best Ensemble: Licorice Pizza (Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
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Boston Society of Film Critics
7 years
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: DUNKIRK (HOYTE VAN HOYTEMA) RUNNER UP: BLADERUNNER 2049 (ROGER DEAKINS)
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Boston Society of Film Critics
2 years
WINNER, Best English Language Film: THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
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Boston Society of Film Critics
7 years
Best Actress: Sally Hawkins, THE SHAPE OF WATER Runner Up: Vicky Krieps, PHANTOM THREAD
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Boston Society of Film Critics
7 years
BEST SCREENPLAY: LADYBIRD Runner up: GET OUT
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Boston Society of Film Critics
6 years
Winner, Best Actress: MELISSA MCCARTHY, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? Runner Up: Sakura Ando, SHOPLIFTERS
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Boston Society of Film Critics
2 years
Winner of BEST NEW FILMMAKER (created in honor of David Brudnoy): Charlotte Wells for AFTERSUN
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Boston Society of Film Critics
3 years
We did have plenty of love in the cinematography category for THE GREEN KNIGHT and PASSING
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
Just a few hours left until the BSFC meets to vote on our annual awards! Follow along all day as the winners come in.
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Boston Society of Film Critics
5 years
Winner for Best Editing: THE IRISHMAN close runner up: UNCUT GEMS #BSFCAwards
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Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
Runners-up included: Emma Stone for Poor Things Sandra Hüller for Anatomy of a Fall Natalie Portman for May December
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Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
Runners-up included: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Robot Dreams The Peasants
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Boston Society of Film Critics
5 years
Winner, Best New Filmmaker: Joe Talbot for THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO (runner up: ATLANTICS Mati Diop) #BSFCAwards
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Boston Society of Film Critics
2 years
WINNER, Best Documentary: ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED, directed by Laura Poitras
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Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
While we wait to announce our final award, please enjoy a few typos from ballots cast during today's voting, and enjoy imagining the resulting films: About Dry Gasses Killers of the Flower Shop Past Livers
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
And the winner for Best Documentary is: Geographies of Solitude!
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Boston Society of Film Critics
3 years
And the winner is...for Best Documentary: Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (Dir. Questlove)
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Boston Society of Film Critics
5 years
Winner of Best Original Score: LITTLE WOMEN close runner up: The Last Black Man in San Francisco
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Boston Society of Film Critics
4 years
Super stoked that our two top picks for BEST DIRECTOR were both women! with others in the discussion, too (Kitty Green for THE ASSISTANT and Autumn de Wilde for EMMA.)
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Boston Society of Film Critics
5 years
Winner for our award for Best Screenplay: ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD Runners up: MARRIAGE STORY and LITTLE WOMEN #BSFCAwards
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Boston Society of Film Critics
3 years
And the winner is...for Best Film Editing: Affonso Gonçalves & Adam Kurnitz (The Velvet Underground)
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Boston Society of Film Critics
6 years
Winner, Best Supporting Actor: RICHARD E. GRANT (CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?) Runner Up: a tie! Steven Yeun (BURNING) and Brian Tyree Henry (IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK)
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
4 years
And the winner for BEST DOCUMENTARY (wow, has 2020 been a great year for unusual and amazing documentary films!) is COLLECTIVE (Alexander Nanau). Very close second was THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF (Benjamin Ree).
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Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
Runners-up included: Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer Kōji Yakusho for Perfect Days
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Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
Runners-up included: Charles Melton for May December Mark Ruffalo for Poor Things Robert Downey Jr. for Oppenheimer
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
Runners-up included: Kelly Fremon Craig for Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese for Killers of the Flower Moon We apologize for previously crediting Eli Roth for co-writing Killers of the Flower Moon, which would be quite a different film!
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
This was a VERY close vote, with Mica Levi for The Zone of Interest coming in just behind Killers of the Flower Moon
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Boston Society of Film Critics
3 years
Other close contenders for best score were ZOLA and POWER OF THE DOG
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@TheBSFC
Boston Society of Film Critics
9 months
There are no runners-up to report! This one was over in one round with quite a majority!
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Boston Society of Film Critics
7 years
Best Director: PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON, PHANTOM THREAD Runner Up: Guillermo del Toro, THE SHAPE OF WATER
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