Barbie Declared Best Movie About Women by Women Film Critics Circle

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie has been declared Best Movie About Women by the Women Film Critics Circle. The film also picked up a win for Best Equality of the Sexes. Killers of the Flower Moon was awarded the Karen Morley Award for best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity and the Josephine Baker Award for best expressing the woman of color experience in America.

Celine Song’s Past Lives scored two wins for Best Movie By a Woman and Best Woman Storyteller. The Adrienne Shelly Award for a film that most passionately opposes violence against women was awarded to The Color Purple, while Lee Grant receive the Acting and Activism Award and Dolly Parton was bestowed the Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Women Film Critics Circle is over 80 entertainment journalists and film scholars that have united to form the first national association of women critics observing and elevating women in film.

Winners in bold below.

BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN

WINNER: Barbie
RUNNER-UP: Poor Things
A Thousand and One
The Color Purple
Origin

BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN

WINNER: Past Lives – Celine Song
RUNNER-UP: Saltburn – Emerald Fennell
Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet
Origin – Ava DuVernay

BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER (Screenwriting Award)

WINNER: Past Lives – Celine Song
RUNNER-Up: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret – Kelly Fremon Craig
Origin – Ava DuVernay
Saltburn – Emerald Fennell

BEST ACTRESS

WINNER: Emma Stone – Poor Things
RUNNER-UP: Annette Bening – Nyad
Aunjanue Ellis – Origin
Helen Mirren – Golda
Teyana Taylor – A Thousand and One

BEST ACTOR

WINNER: Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
RUNNER-UP: Charles Melton – May December
Colman Domingo – Rustin
Gael Garcia Bernal – Cassandro

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

WINNER: Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
RUNNER-UP: Julianne Moore – May December
Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple
Jodie Foster – Nyad

BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN

WINNER: Anatomy of a Fall
RUNNER-UP: Four Daughters
Other People’s Children
The Teacher’s Lounge

BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN

WINNER: To Kill A Tiger
RUNNER-UP: Take Care of Maya
Beyond Utopia
The Deepest Breath

BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES

WINNER: Barbie
RUNNER-UP: Golda
Nyad
Rye Lane

BEST ANIMATED FEMALE

WINNER: Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld) – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
RUNNER-UP (TIE): Ember Lumen (Leah Lewis) – Elemental
RUNNER UP (TIE): Nimona (Chloe Grace Moretz) – Nimona

BEST SCREEN COUPLE

WINNER: Annette Bening & Jodie Foster – Nyad
RUNNER-UP: Greta Lee & John Magaro – Past Lives
David Jonsson & Vivian Oparah – Rye Lane
Haley Lu Richardson & Ben Hardy -Love at First Sight

*ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD – For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women

WINNER: The Color Purple
RUNNER-UP: The Royal Hotel
Barbie
Shayda

*JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD – For best expressing the woman of color experience in America

WINNER: Killers of the Flower Moon
RUNNER-UP: The Color Purple
A Thousand and One
Origin

*KAREN MORLEY AWARD – For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity

WINNER: Killers of the Flower Moon
RUNNER-UP: The Color Purple
A Thousand and One
Barbie

ACTING AND ACTIVISM AWARD

Lee Grant

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Dolly Parton


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Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.