2018 Women Film Critics Circle Awards
Rather too little interest in the Women Film Critics Circle, unfortunately, or what it decides upon as the best in film of this year or any other, but awards season it is and awards season I shall follow, and the WFCC plays a part in that season whether I like them or not. And hooray for an all-female critics group all the same! Awards all over the place, and why not? You can see their nominations here, and their winners below.
Best Actress
1. Olivia Colman (The Favourite)
2. Toni Collette (Hereditary)
Best Actor
1. Ethan Hawke (First Reformed)
2. Viggo Mortensen (Green Book)
Best Movie About Women
1. The Favourite
2. Roma
Best Movie by a Woman
1. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
2. Leave No Trace
Best Young Actress
1. Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade)
2. Thomasin McKenzie (Leave No Trace)
Best Comedic Actress
1. Olivia Colman (The Favourite)
2. Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Best Woman Storyteller (Screenwriting Award)
1. Audrey Wells (The Hate U Give)
2. Debra Granik (Leave No Trace)
Women's Work (Best Ensemble)
1. Widows
2. The Favourite
Best Documentary by or About Women
1. RBG
2. Shirkers
Best Foreign Film by or About Women
1. Roma
2. Capernaum
Special Mention Awards
Best Family Film
Eighth Grade
Best Female Action Heroes
Black Panther
Best Animated Female
Incredibles 2
Best Equality of the Sexes
Black Panther
Best Screen Couple
If Beale Street Could Talk
Courage in Filmmaking
1. Jennifer Fox (The Tale)
2. Haifaa Al-Mansour (Mary Shelley)
Courage in Acting (taking on unconventional roles that radically redefine the images of women on screen)
1. Nicole Kidman (Destroyer)
2. Viola Davis (Widows)
The Invisible Woman Award (performance by a woman whose exceptional impact on the film dramatically, socially or historically, has been ignored)
Glenn Close (The Wife)
Adrienne Shelly Award (for a film that most passionately opposes violence against women)
Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland
Josephine Baker Award (for best expressing the woman of colour experience in America)
If Beale Street Could Talk
Karen Morley Award (for best exemplifying a woman's place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity)
Roma
Best Kept Secret Award
'All the overlooked 'Gone Girls of Cinema''
Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers
Acting and Activism
Viola Davis
Lifetime Achievement Award
Ellen Burstyn
Mommie Dearest Worst Screen Mom of the Year Award
Jacki Weaver (Widows)
WFCC Hall of Shame Award
Bryan Singer
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