The 39th Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2018, were given on December 16, 2018.^[1]

• Best Film:
  • If Beale Street Could Talk
  • Runner-up: Shoplifters
• Best Director:
  • Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here
  • Runner-up: Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite
• Best Actor:
  • John C. Reilly – Stan & Ollie
  • Runner-up: Ethan Hawke – First Reformed
• Best Actress:
  • Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  • Runner-up: Sakura Ando – Shoplifters
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  • Runner-up: Brian Tyree Henry – If Beale Street Could Talk
  • Runner-up: Steven Yeun – Burning
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk
  • Runner-up: J. Smith-Cameron – Nancy
• Best Screenplay:
  • Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  • Runner-up: Tamara Jenkins – Private Life
• Best Original Score:
  • Nicholas Britell – If Beale Street Could Talk
  • Runner-up: Justin Hurwitz – First Man
  • Runner-up: Jonny Greenwood – You Were Never Really Here
• Best Animated Film:
  • Isle of Dogs
  • Runner-up: Ralph Breaks the Internet
• Best Foreign Language Film:
  • Shoplifters
  • Runner-up: Cold War
• Best Documentary:
  • Won't You Be My Neighbor?
  • Runner-up: Three Identical Strangers
• Best Cinematography:
  • Alfonso Cuarón – Roma
  • Runner-up: Łukasz Żal – Cold War
• Best Editing:
  • Tom Cross – First Man
  • Runner-up: Bob Murawski and Orson Welles – The Other Side of the Wind
• Best New Filmmaker:
  • Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
  • Runner-up: Ari Aster – Hereditary
• Best Ensemble:
  • Shoplifters
  • Runner-up: The Favourite