The 9th Boston Society of Film Critics Awards honored the best filmmaking of 1988. The awards were given in 1989.

• Best Film:
  • Bull Durham
• Runner-up: Mississippi Burning
• Best Actor:
  • Daniel Day-Lewis – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Runner-up: Gene Hackman – Mississippi Burning
• Best Actress:
  • Melanie Griffith – Working Girl
• Runner-up: Jodie Foster – The Accused
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Dean Stockwell – Married to the Mob and Tucker: The Man and His Dream
• Runner-up: Kevin Kline – A Fish Called Wanda
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Joan Cusack – Married to the Mob, Stars and Bars and Working Girl
• Runner-up: Frances McDormand – Mississippi Burning
• Best Director:
  • Stephen Frears – Dangerous Liaisons
• Runner-up: Martin Scorsese – The Last Temptation of Christ
• Best Screenplay:
  • Ron Shelton – Bull Durham
• Best Cinematography:
  • Sven Nykvist – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Best Documentary:
  • The Thin Blue Line
• Best Foreign-Language Film:
  • Salaam Bombay! • UK/India/France

• Past Winners

• 1988 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards Internet Movie Database