Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director

The winners of the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director.

Winners

1980s

*"'1980: Roman Polanski:for directing "Tess"
*"'1981: Steven Spielberg:for directing ""
*"'1982: Steven Spielberg:for directing ""
*"'1983: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani:for directing "Night of the Shooting Stars"
*"'1984: Bertrand Tavernier:for directing "A Sunday in the Country"
*"'1985: John Huston:for directing "Prizzi's Honor"
*"'1986(t): David Lynch:for directing "Blue Velvet"
*"'1986(t): Oliver Stone:for directing "Platoon"
*"'1987: Stanley Kubrick:for directing "Full Metal Jacket"

1990s

*"'1990: Martin Scorsese:for directing "GoodFellas"
*"'1991: Jonathan Demme:for directing "The Silence of the Lambs"
*"'1993: Steven Spielberg:for directing "Schindler's List"
*"'1994: Quentin Tarantino:for directing "Pulp Fiction"
*"'1995: Ang Lee:for directing "Sense and Sensibility"
*"'1996: Mike Leigh:for directing "Secrets & Lies"
*"'1997: Curtis Hanson:for directing "L.A. Confidential"
*"'1998: John Boorman:for directing "The General"
*"'19989: David O. Russell:for directing "Three Kings"

2000s

*"'2000: Cameron Crowe:for directing "Almost Famous"
*"'2001: David Lynch:for directing "Mulholland Dr."
*"'2002: Roman Polanski:for directing "The Pianist"
*"'2003: Sofia Coppola:for directing "Lost in Translation"
*"'2004: Zhang Yimou:for directing "Shi mian mai fu (House of Flying Daggers)"
*"'2005: Ang Lee:for directing "Brokeback Mountain"
*"'2006: Martin Scorsese:for directing "The Departed"
*"'2007: Julian Schnabel:for directing "Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)

Trivia

*Most wins:
**3: Steven Spielberg ("Raiders of the Lost Ark", "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" and "Schindler's List")

**2: Roman Polanski (1980, 2002), Martin Scorsese (1990, 2006) and Ang Lee (1995, 2005)