Women take center stage again with the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC) announcing their film nominations earlier. And its a clear sign of the vast difference in female filmmaker awareness, as many of these nominees are doing the circuit in fine fashion this awards season. Have a look below for the full list of nominees. You’ll only have to wait two days for the winners:
BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN
Mary Shelley
Roma
The Favourite
Widows
BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Leave No Trace
The Kindergarten Teacher
You Were Never Really Here
BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER (Screenwriting Award)
Sara Colangelo: The Kindergarten Teacher
Debra Granik: Leave No Trace
Tamara Jenkins: Private Life
Audrey Wells: The Hate U Give
BEST ACTRESS
Toni Collette, Hereditary
Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Viola Davis, Widows
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Kindergarten Teacher
BEST ACTOR
Ben Foster, Leave No Trace
Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
Viggo Mortensen, Green Book
Hugo Weaving, Black 47
BEST COMEDIC ACTRESS
Helena Bonham Carter, 55 Steps
Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Kathryn Hahn, Private Life
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
BEST YOUNG ACTRESS
Elle Fanning, Mary Shelley
Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade
Thomasin McKenzie, Leave No Trace
Amandla Stenberg, The Hate U Give
BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
Capernaum
Happy As Lazzaro
Roma
Zama
BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
RBG
Say Her Name: The Life And Death Of Sandra Bland
Seeing Allred
Shirkers
WOMEN’S WORK/BEST ENSEMBLE
55 Steps
Ocean’s Eight
The Favourite
Widows
SPECIAL MENTION AWARDS
COURAGE IN FILMMAKING
Haifaa Al-Mansour, Mary Shelley
Sara Colangelo, The Kindergarten Teacher
Sandra Luckow, That Way Madness Lies
Jennifer Fox, The Tale
COURAGE IN ACTING (Taking on unconventional roles that radically redefine the images of women on screen)
Helena Bonham Carter: 55 Steps
Viola Davis: Widows
Nicole Kidman: Destroyer
Melissa McCarthy: Can You Ever Forgive Me?
ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD: (For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women)
Call Her Ganda
I Am Not A Witch
On Her Shoulders
Say Her Name: The Life And Death Of Sandra Bland
JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: (For best expressing the woman of color experience in America)
If Beale Street Could Talk
Life And Nothing More
The Hate U Give
Widows
KAREN MORLEY AWARD: (For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity)
93 Queen
On The Basis Of Sex
Roma
Woman Walks Ahead
THE INVISIBLE WOMAN AWARD: (Performance by a woman whose exceptional impact on the film dramatically, socially or historically, has been ignored)
Yalitza Aparicio, Roma
Glenn Close, The Wife
Andrea Riseborough, Nancy
The Women Of Widows
BEST SCREEN COUPLE
A Star Is Born
Crazy Rich Asians
Disobedience
If Beale Street Could Talk
BEST FEMALE ACTION HEROES
Adrift
55 Steps
Black Panther
RBG
MOMMIE DEAREST WORST SCREEN MOM OF THE YEAR AWARD
Krista Allen, Party Mom
Toni Collette, Hereditary
Nicole Kidman, Destroyer
Jacki Weaver, Widows
BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES
Black Panther
Like Me
On The Basis Of Sex
Widows
BEST ANIMATED FEMALES
Incredibles 2
Liyana
Mary And The Witch’s Flower
Mirai No Mirai
BEST FAMILY FILM
Eighth Grade
Incredibles 2
Science Fair
The Hate U Give
WFCC HALL OF SHAME
Bryan Singer