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 

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

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 

'Unique, provocative and stylishly opinionated'...Fasten your seat belts!

[Individual WFCC Member Picks] 

*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.