The Women’s Film Critics Circle have announced their 2012 picks. And as she continues to sweep the awards circuit, Kathryn Bigelow and Zero Dark Thirty won several awards including Best Movie by a Woman. Ava DuVernay was awarded the Josephine Baker award for Middle of Nowhere. Anne Hathaway was named Best Actress for Les Miserables and Brave took the Best Animated Females award.
Here are the award winners.
2012's Best Movie By a Woman:Zero Dark Thirty
Best Female Images: Zero Dark Thirty
Best Equality of the Sexes: Zero Dark Thirty
Best Movie About Women: A Royal Affair
Best Woman Storyteller: Julie Delpy – 2 Days in New York
Best Actress: Anne Hathaway –Les Miserables
Best Actor : Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
Best Male Images in a Movie: Lincoln
Best Young Actress: Quvenzhane Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Best Comedic Actress: Maggie Smith – Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Women's Work: Best Ensemble: Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Penelope Wilton and Celia Imrie – Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Best Foreign Film By or About Women: Nadine Labaki – Where Do We Go Now
Best Theatrically Unreleased Movie By or About Women: Hemingway and Gellhorn
Worst Female Images of Women in a Movie: Killer Joe and Think Like a Man
Worst Male Images: Killer Joe
Best Animated Females:Brave
Best Family Film: Life of Pi and Rise of the Guardians (tie)
Lifetime Achievement Award: Barbra Streisand
Acting and Activism Award: Sally Field
The Adrienne Shelly Award (a film that most passionately opposes violence against women): Compliance and The Invisible War (tie)
Josephine Baker Award (best expressing the woman of color experience in America): Ava DuVernay – Middle of Nowhere
Karen Morley Award (best exemplifying a woman's place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity): A Royal Affair
Women Film Critics Circle praises 'Zero Dark Thirty,' 'Royal Affair' (UPI.com)