In case today's Critics Choice Awards nominations were a little light on female-focused cinema (A: they were), the Women Film Critics Circle is here to shed light on the year in film from a different angle, and centre women's film and women's stories in the process. Their 2022 awards nominations are led by Gina Prince-Bythewood's The Woman King, with six mentions, Sarah Polley's Women Talking with five, and Chinonye Chukwu's Till with four, all of which are up for their two top prizes: Best Movie About Women and Best Movie by a Woman. Winners are due to be revealed on 21 December. Check it all out below.
Best Movie About Women
She Said
Till
The Woman King
Women Talking
Best Movie by a Woman
Don't Worry Darling (Olivia Wilde)
Till (Chinonye Chukwu)
The Woman King (Gina Prince-Bythewood)
Women Talking (Sarah Polley)
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett (Tar)
Danielle Deadwyler (Till)
Vicky Krieps (Corsage)
Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Best Actor
Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
Bill Nighy (Living)
Quan Ke Huy (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Best Woman Storyteller (Screenwriting Award)
Maria Bello and Dana Stevens (The Woman King)
Emma Donoghue (The Wonder)
Rebecca Lenkiewicz (She Said)
Sarah Polley (Women Talking)
Best Documentary by or About Women
Aftershock
Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down
The Janes
Lucy and Desi
Best Foreign Film by or About Women
Corsage
Happening
Murina
Rickshaw Girl
Best Animated Female
"Belle Bottom" (Minions: The Rise of Gru)
"Izzy Hawthorne" (Lightyear)
"Mei Lin" (Turning Red)
Best Screen Couple
Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward (Empire of Light)
Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver (The Good House)
Daryl McCormack and Emma Thompon (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande)
Quan Ke Huy and Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Best Equality of the Sexes
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Fire of Love
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
The Woman King
Acting and Activism Award
Geena Davis
Frances McDormand
Nichelle Nichols
Adrienne Shelly Award (for a film that most passionately opposes violence against women)
Don't Worry Darling
Holy Spider
She Said
Women Talking
Josephine Baker Award (for best expressing the Woman of Colour experience in America)
Alice
Master
Nanny
Till
Karen Morley Award (for best exemplifying a woman's place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity)
Alice
The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
The Woman King
Women Talking
Lifetime Achievement Award
Angela Lansbury
Rita Moreno