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