The 22nd Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, honoring the best in film in 2001, were given on 16 December 2001.

• Best Film:
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Runner-up: Apocalypse Now Redux
• Best Actor (TIE):
  • Brian Cox – L.I.E.
  • Denzel Washington – Training Day
  • Runner-up (TIE): Guy Pearce – Memento and Gene Hackman – The Royal Tenenbaums
• Best Actress:
  • Tilda Swinton – The Deep End
  • Runner-up: Naomi Watts – Mulholland Drive
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Ben Kingsley – Sexy Beast
  • Runner-up: Steve Buscemi – Ghost World
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Cameron Diaz – Vanilla Sky
  • Runner-up: Scarlett Johansson – Ghost World
• Best Director:
  • David Lynch – Mulholland Drive
  • Runner-up: Peter Jackson – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• Best Screenplay:
  • Christopher Nolan – Memento
  • Runner-up: Terry Zwigoff and Daniel Clowes – Ghost World
• Best Cinematography:
  • Roger Deakins – The Man Who Wasn't There
  • Runner-up: Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bing – In the Mood for Love (Fa yeung nin wa)
• Best Documentary:
  • The Gleaners and I (Les glaneurs et la glaneuse)
• Best Foreign-Language Film:
  • Amores perros • Mexico
  • Runner-up: In the Mood for Love (Fa yeung nin wa) • Hong Kong/ France
• Best New Filmmaker:
  • Michael Cuesta – L.I.E.
  • Runner-up: Alejandro González Iñárritu – Amores perros

• Past Winners

• Boston takes a ‘Drive’ Archived 2018-08-04 at the Wayback Machine Variety
• Lynch's `Mulholland Drive' wins society's top honor Boston Herald
• BOSTON CRITICS GIVE THUMBS UP TO `MULHOLLAND DRIVE'^{[ permanent dead link]} Boston Globe