Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You has been named Best Movie About Women by the Women Film Critics Circle. Elsewhere, Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet was awarded Best Film by a Woman, Best Actress for Jessie Buckley, and Best Woman Storyteller for Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell.
The Adrienne Shelly Award for a film that most passionately opposes violence against women was awarded to Eva Victor’s Sorry, Baby. The late Diane Keaton was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Women Film Critics Circle was founded in 2004 as the United States’ first all-women critics guild. It consists of over 80 entertainment journalists and film scholars who united to form a national association of women critics who observe and elevate women in film.
Full list of winners below.
Best Movie About Women
Winner: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Runner Up: Hamnet
Eleanor the Great
Sorry, Baby
Best Movie by a Woman
Winner: Chloé Zhao (Hamnet)
Runner Up: Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby)
Lynne Ramsay (Die My Love)
Mary Bronstein (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You)
Best Woman Storyteller (Screenwriting Award)
Winner: Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell (Hamnet)
Runner Up: Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby)
Lynne Ramsay, Alice Birch (with Enda Walsh) (Die My Love)
Mary Bronstein (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You)
Best Actress
Winner: Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)
Runner Up: Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You)
Amanda Seyfried (The Testament of Ann Lee)
Jennifer Lawrence (Die My Love)
Best Actor
Winner: Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon)
Runner Up: Michael B. Jordan (Sinners)
Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another)
Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme)
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Regina Hall (One Battle After Another)
Runner Up: Andrea Riseborough (Goodbye June)
Odessa A’zion (Marty Supreme)
Samantha Morton (Anemone)
Best Foreign Film by or About Women
Winner (tie): Left-Handed Girl
Winner (tie): The Voice of Hind Rajab
All That’s Left of You
Belén
Best Documentary by or About Women
Winner: My Mom Jayne
Runner Up: The Perfect Neighbor
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
The Librarians
Best Equality of the Sexes
Winner: Sinners
Runner Up: The Testament of Ann Lee
Lilly
Tatami
Best Animated Female
Winner: Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters)
Runner Up (tie): Amélie (Little Amélie or the Character of Rain)
Runner Up (tie): Judy Hopps (Zootopia 2)
Scarlet (Scarlet)
Best Screen Couple
Winner: Wunmi Mosaku and Michael B. Jordan (Sinners)
Runner Up: Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal (Hamnet)
Elizabeth Olsen and Miles Teller (Eternity)
Laura Dern and Will Arnett (Is This Thing On?)
Adrienne Shelly Award* – For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women
Winner: Sorry, Baby
Runner Up: Christy
Companion
Lilly
Josephine Baker Award* – For best expressing the woman of color experience in America
Winner: Sinners
Runner Up: Hedda
Rosemead
Wicked: For Good
Karen Morely Award* – For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity
Winner: Eleanor the Great
Runner Up (tie): Die My Love
Runner Up (tie): The Testament of Ann Lee
Familiar Touch
Acting and Activism Award
America Ferrera
Lifetime Achievement Award
Diane Keaton
