2011 achievement awards from the Women Film Critics Circle
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Congratulations to the winners of this year’s 2011 achievement awards from the Women Film Critics Circle.
Viola Davis, Best Actress, Elizabeth Taylor, Acting & Activism
Cicely Tyson & Kathy Bates, Lifetime Achievement, George Clooney, Best Actor
Best Films: The Iron Lady, We Need to Talk About Kevin & The Help...
2011 Women Film Critics Circle Awards
Michelle Williams & Hiram Abbass, Invisible Woman Awards
Glenn Close, Courage in Acting, Mona Achache's The Hedgehog, Best Foreign Film
New York, NY--The Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC) wishes to announce its 2011 winners for the best movies by and about women, and outstanding achievements by women, who are rarely honored, historically, in the film world.
The WFCC is an association of 57 U.S. and international women film critics and scholars, who are involved in print, radio, online and TV broadcast media. They 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. WFCC also prides itself on being the most culturally and racially diverse critics groups in the country by far, and best reflects the diversity of movie audiences.
Complete List of 2011 WFCC Winners
BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN: TIE*
The Iron Lady We Need To Talk About Kevin
BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN:
The Help
BEST STORYTELLER:
The Iron Lady: Abi Morgan
BEST ACTRESS:
Viola Davis: The Help
BEST ACTOR:
George Clooney: The Descendants
BEST COMEDIC ACTRESS:
Melissa McCarthy: Bridesmaids
BEST YOUNG ACTRESS:
Shailene Woodley: The Descendents
BEST FOREIGN FILM:
The Hedgehog, Mona Achache, Director/Screenwriter
BEST FEMALE IMAGES:
The Whistleblower
WORST FEMALE IMAGES:
Melancholia
BEST MALE IMAGES:
The Descendants
WORST MALE IMAGES:
Hangover 2
BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN:
Semper Fi: Always Faithful, Directed by Rachel Libert, Tony Hardmon
BEST FAMILY FILM:
Hugo, Directed by Martin Scorsese
BEST ANIMATED FEMALES
Puss 'N Boots
BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES:
The Debt
COURAGE IN ACTING:
Glenn Close: Albert Nobbs
THE INVISIBLE WOMAN AWARD: Tie*
Hiam Abbass: Miral Michelle Williams: Meek's Cutoff
BEST UNRELEASED MOVIE:
Miss Representation
WOMEN'S WORK: BEST FEMALE ENSEMBLE:
The Help: Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Emma Stone, Cicely Tyson, Sissy Spacek, Allison Janney, Jessica Chastain, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ahna O’Reilly, Anna Camp, Eleanor Henry, Emma Henry, Aunjanue Ellis, Roselyn Ruff, Tarra Riggs, Mary Steenburgen, Tiffany Brouwer, Carol Sutton, Millicent Bolton, Ashley Johnson, Florence Roach, LeShanze, Dana Ivey, Becky Fly, Shareene Witfield, Cleta Elaine Ellington, Diana Cooper, Kelsey Scott.
BEST SCREEN COUPLE:
The Artist: Berenice Bejo and Jean Dujardin
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Tie*
Kathy Bates Cicely Tyson
ACTING AND ACTIVISM AWARD [posthumous]:
Elizabeth Taylor
ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD
The Whistleblower
JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD
The Help
KAREN MORLEY AWARD
Albert Nobbs
MOMMIE DEAREST WORST SCREEN MOM OF THE YEAR AWARD
Judi Dench: J. Edgar
About the WOMEN FILM CRITICS CIRCLE (WFCC)
Critical
Women on Film, a presentation of the Women Film Critics Circle, is a journal of discussion and theory. It is a gathering of women’s voices expressing a fresh and differently experienced perspective from the primarily male dominated film criticism world.
For more information, go to:
WOMEN FILM CRITICS CIRCLE
To read articles on WFCC's online journal, please visit:
CRITICAL WOMEN ON FILM
*ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD: For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women
*JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: For best expressing the woman of color experience in America
*KAREN MORLEY AWARD: For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity
*COURAGE IN ACTING [Taking on unconventional roles that radically redefine the images of women on screen]
*THE INVISIBLE WOMAN AWARD [Performance by a woman whose exceptional impact on the film dramatically, socially or historically, has been ignored]