THE WOMEN FILM CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2018

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THE WOMEN FILM CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2018

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WFCC AWARDS 2018
BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN
**The Favourite
Runner-up: Roma

BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN
**Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Runner-up: Leave No Trace
 
BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER [Screenwriting Award]
**Audrey Wells: The Hate U Give 
Runner-up: Debra Granik: Leave No Trace
 
BEST ACTRESS
**Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Runner-up: Toni Collette, Hereditary
 
BEST ACTOR
**Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
Runner-up: Viggo Mortensen, Green Book

BEST COMEDIC ACTRESS
**Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Runner-up: Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
 
 
BEST YOUNG ACTRESS
**Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade
Runner-up: Thomasin McKenzie, Leave No Trace

BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
**Roma
Runner-up: Capernaum

BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
**RBG
Runner-Up: Shirkers
 
WOMEN’S WORK/BEST ENSEMBLE
**Widows
Runner-Up: The Favourite
 
SPECIAL MENTION AWARDS
 
COURAGE IN FILMMAKING
**Jennifer Fox, The Tale
Runner-Up: Haifaa Al-Mansour, Mary Shelley

COURAGE IN ACTING [Taking on unconventional roles that radically redefine the images of women on screen]
**Nicole Kidman: Destroyer
Runner-Up: Viola Davis: Widows

*ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD: For a film that most passionately opposes violence against wom
**Say Her Name: The Life And Death Of Sandra Bland

 
*JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: For best expressing the woman of color experience in America
**If Beale Street Could Talk

*KAREN MORLEY AWARD: For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity
**Roma
 
*THE INVISIBLE WOMAN AWARD: [Performance by a woman whose exceptional impact on the film dramatically, socially or historically, has been ignored]
**Glenn Close, The Wife

ACTING AND ACTIVISM
**Viola Davis
 
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
Ellen Burstyn

BEST KEPT SECRET AWARD
All The Overlooked 'Gone Girls Of Cinema' PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FILMMAKERSA Kino Lorber Collectors Edition Release.
 
BEST SCREEN COUPLE
**If Beale Street Could Talk

BEST FEMALE ACTION HEROES
**Black Panther

MOMMIE DEAREST WORST SCREEN MOM OF THE YEAR AWARD
**Jacki Weaver: Widows

BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES
**Black Panther

BEST ANIMATED FEMALES
**Incredibles 2

BEST FAMILY FILM
**Eighth Grade
 
HALL OF SHAME 
**Member Picks:
 
*Fifty Shades Freed: For perpetuating unrealistic and demeaning stereotypes of women, being defined by men emotionally and physically. 
 
*Bryan Singer: Accused of committing crimes against young men, his continued status as a hirable, high-paid director is an affront to the women in the film industry who are struggling for recognition. 
 
*Les Moonves: Chairman and CEO of CBS, Moonves resigned in light of allegations that he sexually abused many women, and information on the culture of fear that he reigned over is now coming out.