Winners have been announced for the Women Film Critics Circle's 2022 awards! The group's two top prizes are shared between two movies: Maria Schrader's She Said wins Best Movie About Women, while Sarah Polley's Women Talking win Best Movie by a Woman - not sure what the difference is between these categories when they're both directed by women and about women, tbh. I'm not including their Hall of Sham citations since they're only individual entries from WFCC members, anad since they're sex-shaming and transphobic. You can check out the 2022 WFCC awards nominations here, and the winners below.
Best Movie About Women
She Said
Runner-up: Women Talking
Best Movie by a Woman
Women Talking (Sarah Polley)
Runner-up: Till (Chinonye Chukwu)
Runner-up: The Woman King (Gina Prince-Bythewood)
Best Actress
Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Runner-up: Danielle Deadwyler (Till)
Best Actor
Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
Runner-up: Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Best Woman Storyteller (Screenwriting Award)
Sarah Polley (Women Talking)
Runner-up: Rebecca Lenkiewicz (She Said)
Best Documentary by or About Women
The Janes
Runner-up: Lucy and Desi
Best Foreign Film by or About Women
Happening
Runner-up: Corsage
Best Directress: Courage in Filmmaking
Olivia Wilde (Don't Worry Darling)
Courage in Acting (taking on unconventional roles that radically redefine the images of women on screen)
Danielle Deadwyler (Till)
Anamaria Vartolomei (Happening)
Women's Work - Best Ensemble Cast
The Woman King
Best Animated Female
'Mei Lin' (Turning Red)
Runner-up: 'Izzy Hawthorne' (Lightyear)
Best Female Action Hero
Keke Palmer (Alice)
The Invisible Woman Award (a supporting performance by a woman whose exceptional impact on the film dramatically, socially or historically has been ignored)
Charmaine Bingwa (Emancipation)
Best Kept Secret (overlooked, challenging film gems)
Amitabh Reza Chowdhury (Rickshaw Girl)
Nina Mensah (Queen of Glory)
Best Screen Couple
Quan Ke Huy and Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Runner-up: Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver (The Good House)
Best Equaity of the Sexes
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Runner-up: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Acting and Activism Award
Geena Davis
Women Saving Themselves Award
The Janes
Adrienne Shelly Award (for a film that most passionately opposes violence against women)
Women Talking
Runner-up: She Said
Josephine Baker Award (for best expressing the Woman of Colour experience in America)
Till
Runner-up: Nanny
Karen Morley Award (for best exemplifying a woman's place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity)
Women Talking
Runner-up: The Woman King
Lifetime Achievement Award
Rita Moreno
Mommie Dearest Worst Screen Mom of the Year
Julianne Nicholson - 'Gladys' (Blonde)