With their unique brand of film categories, the Women Film Critics Circle have announced their winners for the 2019 awards season. Everything you need to know is below:
Best Movie About Women
- Winner: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)
- Runner-up: Little Women (Greta Gerwig)
Best Movie By A Woman
- Winner: Harriet (Kasi Lemmons)
- Runner-up: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)
Best Woman Storyteller (Screenwriting Award)
- Winner: Greta Gerwig (Little Women)
- Runner-up: Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
Best Actress
- Tie: Cynthia Erivo (Harriet)
- Tie: Lupita Nyong’o (Us)
- Runner-up: Renée Zellweger (Judy)
Josephine Baker Award (for best expressing the woman of color experience in America)
- Winner: Harriet (Kasi Lemmons)
- Runner-up: Queen & Slim (Melina Matsoukas)
Karen Morley Award (for best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity)
- Winner: Harriet (Kasi Lemmons)
- Runner-up: Little Women (Greta Gerwig)
Acting and Activism Award
- Jane Fonda
Lifetime Achievement Award
- Alfre Woodard
Best Foreign Film By Or About Women
- Winner: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)
- Runner-up: Atlantics (Mati Diop)
Best Documentary By Or About Women
- Winner: Varda by Agnès (Agnès Varda)
- Runner-up Tie: Honeyland (Tamara Kotevska, Ljubo Stefanov)
- Runner-up Tie: Maiden (Alex Holmes)
Best Equality Of The Sexes
- Winner: Marriage Story
- Runner-up: The Aeronauts
Best Animated Female
- Winner: Anna (Frozen 2)
- Runner-up: Bo Peep (Toy Story 4)
Best Screen Couple
- Winner Tie: Marriage Story (Scarlett Johansson/Adam Driver)
- Winner Tie: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Noémie Merlant/Adèle Haenel)
- Runner-up: Hustlers (Jennifer Lopez/Constance Wu)
Adrienne Shelly Award (or a film that most passionately opposes violence against women)
- Winner Tie: The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent)
- Winner Tie: Bombshell (Jay Roach)
- Runner-up: Hustlers (Lorene Scafaria)
The WFCC Pauline Kael Special Jury Awards
The Invisible Woman Award (supporting performance by a woman whose exceptional impact on the film dramatically, socially or historically, has been ignored)
- Winner: Janelle Monae (Harriet)
- Runner-up: Anna Paquin (The Irishman)
Best Female Action Heroes (may be collective, or social action rather than physical action)
- Winner: Cynthia Erivo (Harriet)
- Runner-up: Keira Knightley (Official Secrets)
Mommie Dearest Worst Screen Mom Of The Year Award
- Frances Conroy as Penny Fleck (Joker)
WFCC Hall Of Shame
- Hustlers – This was NOT a female empowering film as it was billed to be. But rather an eye candy vehicle for men to watch Jennifer Lopez show off her butt and pole dancing skills.
- Vita & Virginia – For portraying Virginia Woolf as a waif instead of a force of nature.
- Roger Ailes – A monster, who this year was especially exposed for his monstrosity both on film in Bombshell, and on television in The Loudest Voice.
- Luc Besson – Who has been officially charged with sexual assault by at least nine women. The actions not only affected the lives of the women assaulted, but also all the people associated with his latest film, Anna.
- John Krasinski – The actor brags about pursuing CIA input for his macho ‘thank you to the CIA every day’ role as ‘Next Stop Venezuela’ Jack Ryan, in that repugnant propaganda infomercial for US imperialism’s neo-Monroe Doctrine assault on Latin America.
