The Women Film Critics Circle have selected a boatload of films that aren’t getting much attention elsewhere this precursor season, with only The Favourite, Roma, and Can You Ever Forgive Me? common sights this year.

Award Tallies

(8) Widows
(4) The Favourite, 55 Steps, The Hate U Give, The Kindergarten Teacher, Leave No Trace, Roma
(3) Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Mary Shelley

The Awards

Best Movie About Women

Mary Shelley
Roma
The Favourite
Widows

Best Movie by a Woman

Can You Ever Forgive Me?
The Kindergarten Teacher
Leave No Trace
You Were Never Really Here

Best Animated Females

Incredibles 2
Liyana
Mary and the Witch’s Flower
Mirai

Best Actor

Ben Foster – Leave No Trace
Ethan Hawke – First Reformed
Viggo Mortensen – Green Book
Hugo Weaving – Black 47

Best Actress

Toni Collette – Hereditary
Olivia Colman – The Favourite
Viola Davis – Widows
Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Kindergarten Teacher

Best Woman Storyteller (Screenwriting)

The Hate U Give
The Kindergarten Teacher
Leave No Trace
Private Life

Best Foreign Film by or About Women

Capernaum
Happy As Lazzaro
Roma
Zama

Best Documentary by or About Women

RBG
Say Her Name: THe Life and Death of Sandra Bland
Seeing Allred
Shirkers

Best Comedic Actress

Helena Bonham Carter – 55 Steps
Olivia Colman – The Favourite
Kathryn Hahn – Private Life
Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Best Young Actress

Elle Fanning – Mary Shelley
Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade
Thomasin McKenzie – Leave No Trace
Amandla Stenberg – The Hate U Give

Best Ensemble (Women’s Work)

The Favourite
55 Steps
Ocean’s Eight
Widows

Courage in Filmmaking

Haifaa Al-Mansour – Mary Shelley
Sara Colangelo – The Kindergarten Teacher
Sandra Luckow – That Way Madness Lies
Jennifer Fox – The Tale

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

Helena Bonham Carter – 55 Steps
Viola Davis – Widows
Nicole Kidman – Destroyer
Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

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

Call Her Ganda
I Am Not a Witch
On Her Shoulders
Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland

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

The Hate U Give
If Beale Street Could Talk
Life and Nothing More
Widows

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

93 Queen
On the Basis of Sex
Roma
Woman Walks Ahead

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

Yalitza Aparicio – Roma
Glenn Close – The Wife
Andrea Riseborough – Nancy
The Women of Widows

Best Screen Couple

A Star Is Born
Crazy Rich Asians
Disobedience
If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Female Action Heroes

Adrift
55 Steps
Black Panther
RBG

Mommie Dearest Worst Screen Mom of the Year Award

Krista Allen – Party Mom
Toni Collette – Hereditary
Nicole Kidman – Destroyer
Jacki Weaver – Widows

Best Equality of the Sexes

Black Panther
Like Me
On the Basis of Sex
Widows

Best Family Film

Eighth Grade
The Hate U Give
Incredibles 2
Science Fair

WFCC Hall of Shame

Bryan Singer

Women Film Critics Circle Data

First Awards: 2004 (15)