Kanevsky Boris Mikhailovich (1908(?), Boguslav, Kiev Region, Ukraine — exact date of birth, date and place of death unknown) — Soviet film director.

Boris Kanevsky began his working life in 1923 as an apprentice locksmith and assistant machinist at a technical school and a cloth factory in Boguslav, joining the Komsomol in the same year. From 1928 to 1931, he worked as a machinist at a plywood factory in Kiev. From 1928 to 1932, he was the editor of mass-circulation factory and film newspapers. In 1930, he enrolled in the directing department of the Kiev Institute of Cinematography, graduating in 1934 with a degree in feature film directing. At the same time, from 1931 to 1935, he studied part-time at the directing department of the State Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS), and from 1934 to 1935, he was a postgraduate student at the Kiev Institute of Cinematography. During this period, he was repeatedly elected a member of the Plenum and Bureau of the District Committee, City Committee, and Regional Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (VLKSM) in Kiev. From 1932 to 1935, he headed the Department of Culture and Propaganda of Leninism at the Kiev Regional Committee of the VLKSM. From 1932 to 1935, he was a lecturer at the Kiev Institute of Cinematography and at courses organised by the Central Committee. From 1935 to 1941, he worked at the Kiev Film Studio, where, together with director L. D. Lukov, he participated in the filming of the films ‘The Great Life’ (1 series) and Alexander Parkhomenko. From 1941 to 1943, he worked at the Tashkent Film Studio. From 1943 to 1946, he served in the Soviet Army, holding the position of head of the officers' assembly at the M.V. Frunze Military Academy.

After demobilisation, he came to Riga and worked at the Riga Film Studio. As second director, he participated in the creation of such films as ‘The Great Life’ (2 episodes, 1946), Ivan Brovkin on the Virgin Lands (1958) and Oleko Dundich (1958), which were filmed by L.D. Lukov at the M. Gorky Film Studio. He received a number of government awards for his service in the army and his work in cinema, including the medals ‘For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945’ and ‘For Valiant Labour’; in 1939, he was awarded the numbered silver badge ‘20 Years of Cinema in the USSR’.