Paddy Mulholland
Dec 8, 20182 min
I want to love the Women Film Critics Circle. I've always wanted to love them. I still always want to support female-focused film organizations. But I just... they just... I just don't get them. I don't understand their tastes. I'm not even sure they have taste. It's perhaps less of a shame this year than certain others - their 2018 awards nominations aren't the worst - but then the year isn't yet over, and who knows what the WFCC will come up with when they announce their winners. They have been known to come up with entirely new categories out of nowhere upon such announcements. Check out their (current) slate of nominees:
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 Movie About Women
The Favourite
Mary Shelley
Roma
Widows
Best Movie by a Woman
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
The Kindergarten Teacher
Leave No Trace
You Were Never Really Here
Best Young Actress
Elle Fanning (Mary Shelley)
Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade)
Thomasin McKenzie (Leave No Trace)
Amandla Stenberg (The Hate U Give)
Best Comedic Actress
Helena Bonham Carter (55 Steps)
Olivia Colman (The Favourite)
Kathryn Hahn (Private Life)
Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
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)
Women's Work (Best Ensemble)
55 Steps
The Favourite
Ocean's Eight
Widows
Best Documentary by or About Women
RBG
Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland
Seeing Allred
Shirkers
Best Foreign Film by or About Women
Capernaum
Happy as Lazzaro
Roma
Zama
Special Mention Awards
Best Family Film
Eighth Grade
The Hate U Give
Incredibles 2
Science Fair
Best Female Action Hero
55 Steps
Adrift
Black Panther
RBG
Best Animated Female
Incredibles 2
Liyana
Mary and the Witch's Flower
Mirai
Best Equality of the Sexes
Black Panther
Like Me
On the Basis of Sex
Widows
Best Screen Couple
Crazy Rich Asians
Disobedience
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Star Is Born
Courage in Filmmaking
Haifaa Al-Mansour (Mary Shelley)
Sara Colangelo (The Kindergarten Teacher)
Jennifer Fox (The Tale)
Sandra Luckow (That Way Madness Lies...)
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?)
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)
Widows (the women of...)
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 colour experience in America)
The Hate U Give
If Beale Street Could Talk
Life and Nothing More
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
Mommie Dearest Worst Screen Mom of the Year Award
Krista Allen (Party Mom)
Toni Collette (Hereditary)
Nicole Kidman (Destroyer)
Jacki Weaver (Widows)
WFCC Hall of Shame Award
Bryan Singer