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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]

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