Women Film Critics Circle Honor Angelina Jolie's Foreign Language Film 'First They Killed My Father'

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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Author: Robin Write

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