The Women Film Critics Circle (or WFCC) are the big wigs of the female critics association of women critics. A group of women writers, scholars, journalists, creators of various forms of media. Their curve ball is a magnificent support and representation of women in film. In front of and behind the camera.
The awards are made extra significant given the turbulent ride many women have had in a year of filmmaking breakthroughs and sexual misconduct revelations. Film-wise, Lady Bird was the big winner, but great to see Angelina Jolie’s First They Killed My Father take the Foreign Language prize. The full list of winners are below:
BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN: Lady Bird
BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN: Lady Bird
BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER: Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
BEST ACTRESS: Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST ACTOR: Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
BEST YOUNG ACTRESS: Brooklynn Prince, The Florida Project
BEST COMEDIC ACTRESS: Allison Janney: I, Tonya
BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN: First They Killed My Father
ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD: [For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women]: The Light Of The Moon
JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: [For best expressing the woman of color experience in America]: Mudbound
KAREN MORLEY AWARD: [For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity]: Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
COURAGE IN ACTING [Taking on unconventional roles that radically redefine the images of women on screen]: Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
COURAGE IN FILMMAKING: 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]: Betty Gabriel, Get Out
BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN: (tie) Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story / Jane
WOMEN’S WORK: BEST ENSEMBLE: Girls Trip
BEST FEMALE ACTION HERO: Wonder Woman
MOMMIE DEAREST WORST SCREEN MOM OF THE YEAR AWARD: Allison Janney: I, Tonya
BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES: Battle Of The Sexes
BEST SCREEN COUPLE: The Big Sick
BEST ANIMATED FEMALE(S): Coco
BEST FAMILY FILM: Coco
ACTING AND ACTIVISM AWARD: Ashley Judd, Rose McGowan and all the women who spoke out against the culture of sexual abuse
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Agnes Varda
BEST RISING FEMALE STARS: Izabela Vidovic, Wonder / Peyton Kennedy, American Fable
WFCC HALL OF SHAME: Harvey Weinstein
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