Women Film Critics Circle Award Winners

BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN

She Said

            Runner Up - Women Talking

BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN

Women Talking – Sarah Polley

            Runners Up - (TIE) Till – Chinonye Chukwu AND The Woman King – Gina Prince-Bythewood

BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER (Screenwriting Award)

Sarah Polley – Women Talking

            Runner Up - Rebecca Lenkiewicz – She Said 

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 FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN

Happening 

            Runner Up - Corsage

BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN

The Janes

            Runner Up - Lucy and Desi

BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES

Good Luck To You, Leo Grande

            Runner Up - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

BEST ANIMATED FEMALE

Meilin – Turning Red 

            Runner Up - Izzy Hawthorne – Lightyear 

BEST SCREEN COUPLE

Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once 

            Runner Up - Kevin Kline & Sigourney Weaver – The Good House 

BEST TV SERIES

(TIE) The Handmaid's Tale AND Yellowjackets

            Runners Up - (TIE) Dead to Me and Julia

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

ACTING AND ACTIVISM AWARD

Geena Davis 

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Rita Moreno (

THE WOMEN FILM CRITICS CIRCLE PAULINE KAEL JURY AWARDS 2022

BEST FEMALE ACTION HERO

Keke Palmer, Alice

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 AND Anamaria Vartolomei, Happening

WOMEN’S WORK – BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

The Woman King

THE INVISIBLE WOMAN AWARD [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 AND Nana Mensah, Queen Of Glory

WOMEN SAVING THEMSELVES AWARD

The Janes

MOMMIE DEAREST WORST SCREEN MOM OF THE YEAR

Blonde, Julianne Nicholson as Gladys

HALL OF SHAME

*The Gotham Awards. For removing the category Best Actress, in the further erasing of women.

*Anatomy Citation. “It doesn’t matter how much I do, I’m still not going to get paid as much as that guy, because of my vagina.” – Jennifer Lawrence speaks out against the continuing literal shortchanging of actresses – regarding Lawrence paid five million dollars less than Leonardo DiCaprio for “Don’t Look Up,” and less than the male cast Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale and Jeremy Renner for “American Hustle.”

*Cringe Citation. Harvey Weinstein’s shameful audiotape recordings. And being reminded of them/him in “She Said.”

*Too Much Information Citation: Emma Thompson, for “Good Luck To You, Leo Grande.”

*Blonde. For depicting only the worst fantasies about Marilyn Monroe, and none of her beauty, grace and intelligence.

*More Blonde. A film that re-exploited Marilyn Monroe and made me feel bad for her. She never had a chance in a man’s world, and this film exploited her again through the unnecessary explicit scenes.

*And More Blonde. An overrated actress romping through the film exposing herself. And why the constant showing of embryos, is it to champion pro-lifers.

*Even More Blonde. Completely inaccurate. The portrayal of the actress is shallow and cliched, and the part of the speaking embryo comes across as a disquieting anti-abortionist statement. My review…

*She Said. A drama about the NY Times investigation into the sex charges against Harvey Weinstein, “She Said” comes off more as a self-congratulatory promo for the NY Times, than emphasis on its victims and intimating a kind of damage control there for its own numerous scandals – the weapons of mass destruction hoax, and most recently calling for the release of Julian Assange –  without an apology for the paper’s media participation in orchestrating his incarceration.

*The Cannes Film Festival. For disrespecting credentialed Deadline critic and distinguished WFCC member Valerie Complex, treating her with racist implications as an intruder there. On Being Black At Cannes: How Microaggressions Marred My Festival Experience

*Shame On DOC NYC. For announcing then scrubbing the name off their public list, secretly inviting as guest of honor a cinematographer from the Ukraine Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, Dmytro Kozatsky, who sports Nazi tattoos, and is fond of creating photographs of swastika carved pizzas, while dragging out from the premises a young woman protesting the event.