I love the diversity of categories. But where is the best woman director? UPDATE- the best womena director is the director of the best movie by women. I think we name the women because people need to know their names in the same way that guys names are known.
BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN: TIE*
The Iron Lady — Phyllida Lloyd
We Need To Talk About Kevin — Lynne Ramsay
BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN:
The Help
BEST STORYTELLER:
The Iron Lady: Abi Morgan
BEST ACTRESS:
Viola Davis: The Help
BEST ACTOR:
George Clooney: The Descendants
BEST COMEDIC ACTRESS:
Melissa McCarthy: Bridesmaids
BEST YOUNG ACTRESS:
Shailene Woodley: The Descendants
BEST FOREIGN FILM:
The Hedgehog
BEST FEMALE IMAGES:
The Whistleblower
WORST FEMALE IMAGES:
Melancholia
BEST MALE IMAGES:
The Descendants
WORST MALE IMAGES:
Hangover 2
BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN:
Semper Fi: Always Faithful
BEST FAMILY FILM:
Hugo
BEST ANIMATED FEMALES
Puss ‘N Boots
BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES:
The Debt
COURAGE IN ACTING:
Glenn Close: Albert Nobbs
THE INVISIBLE WOMAN AWARD: Tie*
Hiam Abbass: Miral
Michelle Williams: Meek’s Cutoff
BEST UNRELEASED MOVIE:
Miss Representation
WOMEN’S WORK: BEST FEMALE ENSEMBLE:
The Help
BEST SCREEN COUPLE:
The Artist: Berenice Bejo and Jean Dujardin
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Tie*
Kathy Bates
Cicely Tyson
ACTING AND ACTIVISM AWARD:
Elizabeth Taylor
ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD (For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women)
The Whistleblower
JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD (For best expressing the woman of color experience in America)
The Help
KAREN MORLEY AWARD (For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity)
Albert Nobbs
MOMMIE DEAREST WORST SCREEN MOM OF THE YEAR AWARD
Judi Dench: J. Edgar
The Women Film Critics Circle is an association of 57 women film critics and scholars from around the country and internationally, who are involved in print, radio, online and TV broadcast media. They came together in 2004 to form the first women critics’ organization in the United States, in the belief that women’s perspectives and voices in film criticism need to be recognized fully. WFCC also prides itself on being the most culturally and racially diverse critics group in the country by far, and best reflecting the diversity of movie audiences.
