The Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC) is an organization of film reviewers from Boston are publications, formed in 1981 to make “Boston’s unique critical perspective heard on a national and international level by awarding commendations to the best of the year’s films and filmmakers and local film theaters and film societies that offer outstanding film programming.” Every year the Boston Society of Film Critics give their Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, many of which go on to acclaim at the Golden Globes (in January) and the Oscars (in February). [NOTE: Those titles below without links have not opened in Worcester yet.]

Best Picture - No Country For Old Men
Best Actor - Frank Langella for Starting Out in the Evening
Best Actress - Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose
Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem for No Country For Old Men
Best Supporting Actress - Amy Ryan for Gone Baby Gone
Best Director - Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Screenplay - Brad Bird for Ratatouille
Best Cinematography - Janusz Kaminski for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Documentary - Crazy Love
Best Foreign Language Film - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Ensemble Cast - Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

This year’s Best New Filmmaker, a category added in 2004 to memorialize late Boston critic David Brudnoy, was awarded to Ben Affleck for Gone Baby Gone. This year’s awards will be officially given out at a ceremony at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA on Sunday, January 13, 2008. The ceremony, open to the public, includes a cocktail reception at 5 p.m. that will provide attendees with the opportunity to meet and mingle with Boston’s top film critics. A screening of one of the BSFC honored films follows at 7 p.m. An invited guest, to be announced, will engage in a post-screening Q and A with the audience.