Topping this year’s Women critics awards is The Favourite while Eighth Grade, If Beale Street Could Talk, Roma, and Widows picked up multiple awards.

Award Tallies

(3) The Favourite
(2) Eighth Grade, If Beale Street Could Talk, Roma, Widows

The Awards

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 Animated Females

Incredibles 2

Best Actor

Ethan Hawke – First Reformed (Runner-Up: Viggo Mortensen – Green Book)

Best Actress

Olivia Colman – The Favourite (Runner-Up: Toni Collette – Hereditary)

Best Woman Storyteller (Screenwriting)

The Hate U Give (Runner-Up: Leave No Trace)

Best Foreign Film by or About Women

Roma (Runner-Up: Capernaum)

Best Documentary by or About Women

RBG (Runner-Up: Shirkers)

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 Ensemble (Women’s Work)

Widows (Runner-Up: The Favourite)

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 women)

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

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 Family Film

Eighth Grade

WFCC Hall of Shame

Bryan Singer

Acting and Activism

Viola Davis

Lifetime Achievement

Ellen Burstyn

Best Kept Secret Award

All the Overlooked “Gone Girls of Cinema’

Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers

A Kino Lorber Collectors Edition Release

Women Film Critics Circle Data

First Awards: 2004 (15)