The Women Film Critics Circle is an association of fifty-five women film critics and scholars from around the country and internationally, who are involved in print, radio, online and TV broadcast media. We 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.
BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN
Mother And Child
BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN
Winter's Bone
BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER [Screenwriting Award]
The Kids Are All Right: Lisa Cholodenko
BEST ACTRESS
Annette Bening/The Kids Are All Right
BEST ACTOR
Colin Firth/The King's Speech
BEST YOUNG ACTRESS
Jennifer Lawrence/Winter's Bone
BEST COMEDIC ACTRESS
Annette Bening/The Kids Are All Right
BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN: *TIE*
Mother
Women Without Men
BEST FEMALE IMAGES IN A MOVIE
Conviction
WORST FEMALE IMAGES IN A MOVIE
Black Swan
BEST MALE IMAGES IN A MOVIE: *TIE*
Another Year
The King's Speech
WORST MALE IMAGES IN A MOVIE
Jackass 3D
BEST THEATRICALLY UNRELEASED MOVIE BY OR ABOUT WOMEN [Includes films released on DVD or TV, or screened at film festivals, in recognition of the limited opportunities available for films by and about women on screen]
Temple Grandin
BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES: *TIE
Another Year
Fair Game
BEST ANIMATED FEMALES
Despicable Me
BEST FAMILY FILM
Toy Story 3
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Helen Mirren
ACTING AND ACTIVISM
Lena Horne [posthumous]: [6/30/17- 5/9/10] As an anti-racist activist, she refused to appear before racially segregated US Army audiences in WW2 Italy-since the army was officially segregated, the policy was to have one show solely for white troops and another show solely for black troops. Horne insisted on performing for mixed audiences, and since the US Army refused to allow integrated audiences, she wound up putting on a show for a mixed audience of black US soldiers and white German POWs. Horne was also branded a 'communist sympathizer' by many right-wing conservatives because of her association with Paul Robeson and her progressive political beliefs, which led her to be blacklisted in the 1950s. Lena Horne passed away on Mothers Day at the age of 92.
*ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD: For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women:
Winter's Bone
*JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: For best expressing the woman of color experience in America
For Colored Girls
*KAREN MORLEY AWARD: For best exemplifying a woman's place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity
Fair Game
COURAGE IN ACTING [Taking on unconventional roles that radically redefine the images of women on screen]
Helen Mirren/The Tempest
THE INVISIBLE WOMAN AWARD [Performance by a woman whose exceptional impact on the film dramatically, socially or historically, has been ignored]
Q'Orianka Kilcher/Princess Kaiulani
BEST DOCUMENTARY BY A WOMAN
A Film Unfinished
WOMEN'S WORK: BEST ENSEMBLE
Mother And Child
BEST SCREEN COUPLE
Another Year: Jim Broadbent/Ruth Sheen as Tom and Gerri.
*WFCC TOP TEN HALL OF SHAME*
*Please Note: The WFCC Top Ten Hall Of Shame represents the 'don't tell me to shut up' sidebar contribution of individual members, and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of the entire Circle. Also, members may be objecting to particular characters in a film, and not the entire movie.
MOMMIE DEAREST WORST SCREEN MOMS OF THE YEAR AWARD:
*Melissa Leo
The Fighter
*Jacki Weaver
Animal Kingdom
BLACK SWAN
*For turning 'everything was beautiful at the ballet' into a horror venue populated by female stereotypes.
CATFISH
*The documentary exploits the woman who 'invents' Facebook personalities (if indeed this all is to be believed). It's a smarmy movie in every respect.
*For it's blatant audience manipulation without any honesty. These filmmakers clearly used a real family for personal gain.
I AM LOVE
*Did Tilda Swinton really need to stand up her dead son at his funeral in order to dash off like in a late for a date emergency, to lock lips with her lover? Mommie Dearest Award runner-up.
INCEPTION
*For making sure that one (& only one) 'good' female character is on hand for the express purpose of killing the one (& only one) 'bad' female character so none of the men have to do it.
JOLENE
*Based on a story by Doctorow, it's a flagrantly misogynistic story, an excellent example of how tales about abused women are turned into porn films.
*Ditto, THE KILLER INSIDE ME, see above.
KICK-ASS
*For the exploitation of a 12 year old girl.
*I resent the film's implication that the best way to empower a girl is to portray her as a chirpily sadistic killing machine (and one who uses the 'c' word, to boot).
THE GHOST WRITER
*At large Polanski sets up Olivia Williams' Lady Macbeth spouse as not only the instigator of UK's collusion in Iraq, letting Blair off the hook. But the predatory extreme seductress aggressor nearly rapes the gullible Ghost as well, when cornering him in his tub with an offer of towels to dry his tush. The Female Made Me Do It defense.
TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE
*This film tells young girls, it's okay to sell your soul for a guy.
YOU AGAIN
*For perpetuation of the same-old same-old stereotypes of hysterical insecure women and reasonable, sage men.
The Women Film Critics Circle
