Women Film Critics Circle

The most bizarre list most likely to be released before Oscar time, but some nice winners none the less...It's criticisms of Precious however, are unfounded, and confusing as they rewared Gabourey Sidibe. Either way an interesting collection of films/Performances



BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN (tie)Coco Before ChanelMy One And Only

BEST MOVIE BY A WOMANJulie & Julia: Nora Ephron

BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER [Screenwriting Award]Sunshine Cleaning: Megan Holley

BEST ACTRESS Abbie Cornish: Bright Star

BEST ACTOR Ben Foster: The Messenger

BEST YOUNG ACTRESS Gabourey Sidibe: Precious

BEST COMEDIC ACTRESS Meryl Streep: Julie & Julia

BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN Seraphine

BEST FEMALE IMAGES IN A MOVIE American Violet, Amreeka, The Baader Meinhof
Complex, Inglourious Basterds,Lemon Tree, The Messenger, My Sister's Keeper, Sweet Crude

BEST THEATRICALLY UNRELEASED MOVIE BY OR ABOUT WOMEN Grey Gardens

BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES Julie & Julia

BEST ANIMATED FEMALE Princess And The Frog: Anika Noni Rose as Tiana

BEST FAMILY FILM Up

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Gertrude Berg [Posthumous]: Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg: Aviva Kempner, director

ACTING AND ACTIVISM: Emma Thompson - For her work on and off screen against sex
trafficking

ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD: For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women:Precious

JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: For best expressing the woman of color experience in AmericaAmerican Violet

KAREN MORLEY AWARD: For best exemplifying a woman's place in history or society, and a courageous search for identityAn Education

COURAGE IN ACTING: For taking on unconventional roles that radically redefine the images of women on screen]Isabella Rossellini: Green Porno

THE INVISIBLE WOMAN AWARD [Supporting performance by a woman whose exceptional impact on the film dramatically, socially or historically, has been ignored]Olivia Williams: An Education

BEST DOCUMENTARIES BY WOMEN:

GROUNDBREAKER: The Beaches of Agnès, Agnès Varda

ABOVE AND BEYOND: American Casino, Leslie Cockburn

COURAGE IN FILMMAKING: Tattooed Under Fire, Nancy Schiesari

WFCC TOP TEN HALL OF SHAME

Antichrist: The cinematic equivalent of nails down a chalkboard. Pretentious pornography,
satanic sex, and Willem Dafoe as an artsy New Age femocidal sexorcist.

Deadgirl: Again the theme is vile sexual violence to women. In this case, the woman is dead and the men can do what they like with her And they do. This film brings out the worst of male fantasies towards women, and it wasn't a pretty sight.

Downloading Nancy: The sexual violence towards Nancy, even though she asked for and seemed to want it, was difficult to absorb.

Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past: Matthew McConaughey as cardboard cutout misogynist, in one too many phone-it-in rom-coms featuring toxic bachelors.

Pirate Radio: Horrible male characters who treat women like a floating meat market.

Precious: If this film were a poor 'white trash' family/community, it wouldn't have received the applause that it did. The point is that it promotes prejudice against blacks, fat women, unmarried women, less educated women and a whole lot more. That it is successful screams out for another film from the same neighborhood where the family is kept above the fray of stereotyping, by a strong unmarried mother.

Twilight Saga: New Moon: Bella (lead human female) is completely pathetic, the whole giving up one's soul thing. How sad is it when a gal in a small town picks two boys she likes, one is a vampire and one is a werewolf.

Up In The Air: 'Just think of me as yourself, only with a vagina.' Oh, puh-leez! Who was this corporate female predaor [Vera Farmiga] supposed to be, this gorgeous, available babe with no back story and the magic ability to pull two sexy black dresses from her rollaway with no prior notice?!?!?

Two words: Judd Apatow. Some more words: perfect, beautiful women exist to save overweight schlubby men from their otherwise inevitable fate as complete no-hopers.
Worst Full Frontal Male Nudity 2009: Observe And Report's comedic flabby flasher. Ha Ha.