More Innovation And Inspiration With The Women Film Critics Circle Nominations

Forgiving them for not updating their website since last year’s roll of honor, the choices by this cluster of film-minded women from all over the shop still demonstrate much to celebrate about women in film. Behind the camera as well as in front. Here are the nominations for the 2017 Women Film Critics Circle:

BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN
A Quiet Passion
Lady Bird
Sophie And The Rising Sun
The Florida Project
BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN
Detroit
First They Killed My Father
Lady Bird
Mudbound
BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER [Screenwriting Award]
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Maggie Greenwald – Sophie And The Rising Sun
Dee Reese – Mudbound
Angela Workman – The Zookeeper’s Wife
BEST ACTRESS
Sally Hawkins – Maudie
Sally Hawkins – The Shape Of Water
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Cynthia Nixon – A Quiet Passion
BEST ACTOR
Timothée Chalamet – Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour
Denzel Washington – Roman J. Israel, Esq.
BEST YOUNG ACTRESS (Under 21)
Seo-Hyun Ahn – Okja
Mckenna Grace – Gifted
Brooklynn Prince – The Florida Project
Millicent Simmonds – Wonderstruck
BEST COMEDIC ACTRESS
Tiffany Haddish – Girls Trip
Allison Janney – I, Tonya
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
A Fantastic Woman
First They Killed My Father
In The Fade
Thelma
ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD  – For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women
Maudie
The Light Of The Moon
The Rape Of Recy Taylor
Wind River
JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD – For best expressing the woman of color experience in America
Girls Trip
Mudbound
Step
The Rape Of Recy Taylor
KAREN MORLEY AWARD – For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity
Battle Of The Sexes
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Mudbound
The Post
COURAGE IN ACTING – Taking on unconventional roles that radically redefine the images of women on screen
Sally Hawkins – Maudie
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Michelle Rodriguez – The Assignment
Charlize Theron – Atomic Blonde
COURAGE IN FILMMAKING

Amma Asante – A United Kingdom
Kathryn Bigelow – Detroit
Angelina Jolie – First They Killed My Father
Dee Rees – Mudbound

THE INVISIBLE WOMAN AWARD – Supporting performance by a woman whose exceptional impact on the film dramatically, socially or historically, has been ignored
Jessica Chastain – The Zookeeper’s Wife
Betty Gabriel – Get Out
Sally Hawkins – Maudie
Cynthia Nixon – A Quiet Passion
BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN:
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Faces Places
Jane
Step
WOMEN’S WORK: BEST ENSEMBLE
A Quiet Passion
Girls Trip
Sophie And The Rising Sun
Wonder Woman
BEST FEMALE ACTION HERO
Atomic Blonde
In The Fade
The Shape Of Water
Wonder Woman
BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES
Atomic Blonde
Battle Of The Sexes
Professor Marston And The Wonder Women
Wonder Woman
BEST SCREEN COUPLE
Maudie
Professor Marston And The Wonder Women
The Big Sick
The Shape Of Water
BEST ANIMATED FEMALE(S)
Coco
Loving Vincent
The Breadwinner
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
BEST FAMILY FILM
Coco
Beauty And The Beast
The Breadwinner
Wonder