Precursor: 19th Women Critics Awards (2022)

While some of the women in the organization cited She Said for their Hall of Shame, the film still managed to pull out a victory as Best Movie About Women. Sarah Polley did quite well with her work taking two prizes for Women Talking.

Awards Tallies

(4) Women Talking
(3) Everything Everywhere All at Once
(2) Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, Happening, The Janes, Till

The Awards

Best Movie About Women

She Said

Best Movie by a Woman

Sarah Polley – Women Talking

Best Actor

Brendan Fraser – The Whale

Best Actress

Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Woman Storyteller (Screenwriting)

Women Talking

Best Foreign Film by or About Women

Happening

Best Documentary by or About Women

The Janes

Adrienne Shelly Award (for a film that most passionately opposes violence against women)

Women Talking

Karen Morley Award (for best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity)

Women Talking

Josephine Baker Award (for best expressing the woman of color experience in America)

Till

Best Equality of the Sexes

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Best Animated Females

Meilin – Turning Red

Courage in Filmmaking

Olivia Wilde – Don’t Worry Darling

Best Ensemble (Women’s Work)

The Woman King

Best Screen Couple

.Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Female Action Heroes

Keke Palmer – Alice

The Invisible Woman Award (performance by a woman whose exceptional impact on the film dramatically, socially or historically, has been ignored)

Charmaine Bingwa – Emancipation

Courage in Acting (taking on unconventional roles that radically redefine the images of women on screen)

Danielle Deadwyler – Till
Anamaria Vartolomei – Happening

Best Kept Secret – Overlooked Challenging Gems

Amitabh Reza Chowdhury – Rickshaw Girl
Nana Menash – Queen of Glory

Women Saving Themselves Award

The Janes

Mommie Dearest Worst Screen Mom of the Year Award

Julianne Nicholson as Gladys – Blonde

Acting and Activism

Geena Davis

Lifetime Achievement

Rita Moreno

WFCC Hall of Shame

*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.