It’s kind of astonishing, really. I suppose to have nominated a single one affirmative action would have had to be in play. With the exception of no Rooney Mara in Lead Actress (epic fail) these aren’t bad nominations. Gotta hand it to the women for having a pretty awesome ballot [full disclosure, I am a voting member of this group. It’s the only group I belong to, although I did participate in Indiewire’s critic poll, even though I’m not a critic – of course I voted for Rooney Mara, and Fincher and Dragon Tattoo — alas].
AWFJ BEST OF AWARDS
Best Film:
- The Artist
- The Descendants
- Hugo
- Melancholia
- Midnight in Paris
Best Director:
- Woody Allen – Midnight In Paris
- Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
- Terrence Malick – Tree of Life
- Alexander Payne – The Descendants
- Martin Scorsese – Hugo
Best Screenplay, Original
- The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius
- Beginners – Mike Mills
- Bridesmaids – Kristin Wiig and Annie Mumolo
- Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen
- Win Win – Thomas McCarthy
Best Screenplay, Adapted
- The Descendants – Alexander Payne, Jim Rash and Nat Faxon
- Hugo – John Logan
- Moneyball – Steven Zallian and Aaron Sorkin
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan
- We Need To Talk About Kevin – Lynne Ramsey and Rory Kinnear
Best Documentary
- Bill Cunningham New York
- Buck
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams
- The Interrupters
- Pina
- Project Nim
Best Animated Film
- Arthur Christmas
- Kung Fu Panda
- Puss in Boots
- Rango
- Tintin
Best Actress
- Viola Davis – Abileen Clark in The Help
- Kirsten Dunst – Justine in Melancholia
- Meryl Streep – Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady
- Tilda Swinton – Eva Khatchadourian in We Need To Talk About Kevin
- Michelle Williams – Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Bernice Bejo – Peppy Miller in The Artist
- Jessica Chastain – Celia Foote in The Help
- Janet McTeer – Hubert Page in Albert Nobbs
- Carey Mulligan – Sissy Sullivan in Shame
- Octavia Spencer – Minny Jackson in The Help
Best Actor
- George Clooney – Matt King in The Descendants
- Jean Dujardin – George Valentin in The Artist
- Michael Fassbinder – Brandon Sullivan in Shame
- Brad Pitt – Billy Beane in Moneyball
- Michael Shannon – Curtis in Take Shelter
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Kenneth Brannagh – Sir Laurence Olivier in My Week With Marilyn
- Albert Brooks – Bernie Rose in Drive
- Christopher Plummer – Hal Fields in Beginnings
- Alan Rickman – Professor Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II
- Andy Serkis – in Planet of the Apes
Best Ensemble Cast
- Bridesmaids
- The Descendants
- The Help
- Margin call
- Midnight In Paris
Best Editing:
- The Artist – Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
- Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
- Hugo – Thelma Schoonmaker
- Tree of Life – Hank Corwin, Jay Rabinowitz, Daniel Rezende, Billy Weber, Mark Yoshikawa
- Warhorse – Michael Kahn
Best Cinematography:
- The Artist – Guillaume Schiffman
- Hugo – Robert Richardson
- Melancholia – Manuel Alberto Claro
- Tree of life – Emmanuel Lubezki
- Warhorse – Janusz Kaminski
Best Film Music Or Score :
- The Artist – Ludovic Bource, Original Score
- Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Original Score
- Hannah – The Chemical Brothers, Original Score
Best Non-English-Language Film:
- Le Havre – Aki Kaurismaki, Finland/France
- Pina – Wim Wenders, Germany
- A Separation – Ashgar FarhadI, Iran
- The Skin I Live In – Pedro Almodovar, Spain
- Trollhunter – André Øvredal, Norway
EDA FEMALE FOCUS AWARDS
Best Woman Director
- Lynne Ramsey – We Need To Talk About Kevin
- Dee Rees – Pariah
- Vera Farmiga – Higher Ground
- Kelly Reichardt – Meek’s Cutoff
- Jennifer Yuh – Kung Fu Panda
Best Woman Screenwriter
- Diablo Cody – Young Adult
- Abi Morgan – The Iron Lady
- Lynne Ramsey and Rory Kinnear – We Need To Talk About Kevin
- Dee Rees – Pariah
- Kristin Wiig and Annie Mumolo – Bridesmaids
Kick Ass Award For Best Female Action Star
- Rooney Mara — Lisbeth Salander in Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
- Helen Mirren – Rachel Singer in The Debt
- Paula Patton – Jane in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
- Saoirse Ronan – Hanna in Hanna
- Zoe Saldana – Cataleya in Colombiana
Best Animated Female
- Emily Blunt as Juliet in Gnomeo and Juliet
- Isla Fisher as Beans in Rango
- Anne Hathaway as Jewel in Rio
- Salma Hayak as Kitty Softpaws in Puss in Boots
- Angelina Jolie – Tigress in Kung Fu Panda
Best Breakthrough Performance
- Jessica Chastain as Mrs. O’Brien in Tree of Life
- Elizabeth Olsen as Martha, Marcy May and Marlene in Martha Marcy May Marlene
- Adepero Oduye as Alike in Pariah
- Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
- Shailene Woodley as Alexandra King in The Descendants
Female Icon Award (This award is presented only in years when it is warranted)
- Glenn Close as Albert Nobbs in Albert Nobbs
- Viola Davis as Abileen Clark in The Help
- Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady
- No Award This Year
Actress Defying Age and Ageism
- Glenn Close as Albert Nobbs in Albert Nobbs
- Judi Dench as Anna Marie Hoover in J. Edgar Hoover
- Helen Mirren as Rachel Singer in The Debt
- Vanessa Redgrave as Volumnia in Coriolanus
- Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady
This Year’s Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Film Industry (This award is presented only in years when it is warranted)
- Jessica Chastain for performances in four highly acclaimed films
- Thelma Schoonmaker for editing Hugo
- Stacey Snider for helming Dreamworks
- Kristin Wiig for Bridesmaids
- No Award This Year
AWFJ Award Humanitarian Activism
- Sandra Bullock for tsunami relief
- Elaine Hendrix for Animal Rescue Corps and In Defense of Animals
- Angelina Jolie for UN work and making In The Land of Milk and Blood to raise awareness about genocide.
- Elizabeth Taylor for her work with AIDS
- Olivia Wilde for relief work in Haiti
EDA SPECIAL MENTION AWARDS
AWFJ Hall Of Shame Award
- The Hollywood Reporter for failing to invite any women to join the Directors Roundtable
- I Melt With You, production and cast
- Jack and Jill, production and cast
- Something Borrowed, production and cast
- Sucker Punch, production and cast
Actress Most in Need Of A New Agent
- Jennifer Aniston
- Kate Hudson
- Sarah Jessica Parker
- Amanda Seyfried
- All actresses in New Year’s Eve
Movie You Wanted To Love But Just Couldn’t:
- Drive
- The Future
- Sucker Punch
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
- Young Adult
Unforgettable Moment Award:
- The Artist – The sound of glass clinking on the table
- Drive – The elevator scene
- Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Lisbeth’s revenge
- The Help – The pie scene
- Shame – Carey Mulligan singing New York, New York
Best Depiction Of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction:
- A Dangerous Method – Carl Jung spanks Sabina Speilrein
- Girl With the Dragon Tattoo — Lisbeth mounts Mikael
- Melancholia – Justine in the moonlight
- Shame – Opening sequence on the subway train
- Shame – Brandon with co-worker
Sequel or Remake That Shouldn’t Have Been Made Award:
- Arthur
- Cars 2
- Hangover Part II
- Hoodwinked 2
- Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon
Most Egregious Age Difference:
- Albert Nobbs – Glenn Close (64) and Mia Wasikowska (22)
- Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Daniel Craig (43) and Rooney Mara (26)
- Midnight in Paris – Owen Wilson (43) and Léa Seydoux (26)
- Sleeping Beauty – Emily Browning (23) and Man 1 (Peter Carroll, 1968), Man 2 (Chris Haywood, 63) and Man 3 (Hugh Keays-Byrne, 64)
- Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 – Bella (18) and Edward (over 100)
I’m disappointed, but not surprised to see Miranda July left out.
I’m just glad to see Alan Rickman on a BSA list, and I am so hopeful that AMPAS and BAFTA will do the same.
His performance was heartbreaking; not since Denzel Washington loan tear-down-the-cheek scene in “Glory” has an actor hugged the screen and achieved the same effect.
Also nice to see Andy Serkis get another nod. While I haven’t seen the Apes movie, I am intrigued over all the fuss. The movie looks like a revolutionary metaphor – I’ve got to check it out.
Rooney Mara is listet in Breakthrough performance.
Better than nothing, no?
I think her time will come, but not for the first movie of a trilogy.
A Dangerous Method – Carl Jung spanks Sabina Speilrein
About this. There are sex scenes in movies but they’re not real sex because they’re all choreographed and whatnot, and nothing really supposedly happens. But in this case when I was watching that I was like ‘How does that not count as Fassbender spanking Knightley?’ You know instead of the characters doing it. He really spanked her right? That wasn’t Andy Serkis in a mo-cap suit or anything like that. I know it’s “acting” but spanking just seems like something that you can’t “act”. You have to really do it. No?
Gee, I’m surprised you even bothered to post this, what with the 4 nominations they gave to Midnight in Paris. But maybe your little heart was aflutter over its inclusion in the “egregious age difference” category.
The concept of women nominating women because they’re women is lost on me. And in the US I have no idea why anyone would expect it. More women than men vote for president in this country and look at all the female presidents we’ve had.
I have no problem interchanging Lynne Ramsey for any of the men in the gender neutral category. I’ve seen everything but Hugo.
WOW! Rickman and Dunst? Love them! Both deserve noms.
Viola Davis – Abileen Clark in The Help
Kirsten Dunst – Justine in Melancholia
Meryl Streep – Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady
Tilda Swinton – Eva Khatchadourian in We Need To Talk About Kevin
Michelle Williams – Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn
I agree Rooney Mara deserves nomination, but im not surprised 35-45 yr old women internet journalists didnt see it that way. they aren’t exactly the most extreme crowd.
Academy awards is practically a guarantee though, no way will they not nominate someone who had that kind of dedication with that rape scene.
Rashad, Kubrick was nominated for Best Director and Malick too could get a nom, but no Best Picture nomination for “2001” has to rank as one of the worst Oscar oversights ever. The Sight and Sound poll ranks it as one of the 10 best films of all time. But in 1968, the Academy didn’t think it was as good as that dreadful Zeffirelli “Romeo and Juliet” or “Funny Girl.”
Just watch — this year there will be 8 nominees for Best Picture, “The Tree of Life” won’t be one of them, and in 2019, critics will be calling it one of the best films of the decade. It will take time to sink in.
I don’t see the big deal. The only relevant name they could have added was Lynne Ramsay, and she wasn’t as good as those men to most of the voters. Should they vote her above directors they thought did better… simply because she’s a woman?
@jane – I agree. Honey goes much better with blood than milk. Ugh.
Not being invited to participate in a directors round table and not being nominated in the top five directors is not the same thing.
I’d also like to point out that Peter Carroll is not 1968 years old – not until next June.
In the Land of Blood and Honey, not Milk and Blood.
Hilarious!
Actress Most in Need Of A New Agent
Jennifer Aniston
Kate Hudson
Sarah Jessica Parker
Amanda Seyfried
All actresses in New Year’s Eve
@joeyhegele, wrote that while you were posting, thank you for saying who you would knock out to add Ramsay
It isn’t sexist to not nominate a female director if they didn’t think that it was merited. They picked what they thought were the five best achievements in directing and it’s hard to argue with their choices. Who do you take out to add Ramsay?
On the other hand, the Hollywood Reporter just invited 6 directors to it’s round table to talk about stuff. There’s absolutely no reason they couldn’t have called up Ramsay and had her come in and had seven directors at their round table. The directors weren’t chosen by merit, (although they are good directors). If Ramsay couldn’t have made it they could have chosen someone else (all of these directors had a film released this year i think so . . . ) even Jolie or Farmiga would have been betterthan no woman director at all. It’s mildly sexist if the Hollywood reported decided they didn’t need a female perspective regarding a male dominated field. Even if it didn’t occur to them that they should invite one thats pretty bad too.
I am a huge Scorsese, Payne, and Allen fan, but Lynne Ramsay definitely deserves to be nominated in the gender-neutral director category as much as those three. I have not seen The Artist yet, but I bet she deserves to be nominated just as much as Hazanavicius. Of the actual nominees, only Malick did definitively better work then Ramsay. It would not have been “affirmative action” to have nominated Ramsay in the general director category. In fact, I think you folks made a huge mistake by snubbing her.
That’s dumb! Drive under a film that they wanted to love but COULDN’T? No wonder it didn’t do well in these nominations because it’s all biased.
No Harry Potter in Ensamble… Good for Alan Rickman
Wow, does anyone else see the irony in the Alliance for Women Film Journalists poo-pooing the Hollywood reporter for not inviting a woman to participate in the Director’s Roundtable, but they fail to nominate a female for their Best Director award.
That’s the the pot calling the kettle sexist.
That’s the the pot calling the kettle sexist.
Just a little. But I have to admit I picked five males too. Crazy shit.
Viola Davis a female “icon”, along side with Streep and Close? Seriously?
I find it especially strange that they put the Hollywood Reporter in their Hall of Shame for not inviting any female directors to be part of their Director’s Roundtable, when they don’t even nominate any women for Best Director. Lynne Ramsay deserves a nomination for We Need to Talk About Kevin – one of the best directed films of the year – by a man or a woman.
A few things
– Kudos to the AWFJ for nominating Melancholia, not only for Best Picture, Actress and Cinematography, but for Best Depiction of Nudity, Sexuality or Seduction. Remember when the Women Film Critics Circle gave it the Worst Female Images award? It proves a point – WFCC, the AWFJ is bigger and better than you.
– The Most Egregious Age Difference award – isn’t that supposed to be between a man and a woman? Glenn Close as Albert Nobbs hardly counts. And this category seems to be missing the point with including Sleeping Beauty. And 26 – 43 is hardly that bad. Plus, it’s all to do with context, particularly in Lisbeth and Mikael’s case.
– Nominating Drive for Movie You Wanted to Love but Just Couldn’t, but also for Unforgettable Moment is strange, but perhaps a little understandable. I don’t agree, though.
– Bad, bad Hollywood Reporter. Not inviting any women to join the Directors Roundtable. Kinda reminiscent of that time when the AWFJ failed to nominate any female directors for its main Best Director category, don’t you think?
Dan, Kubrick was nominated for 2001. How did it take years for people to get behind it?
Really loving the awards for actresses who need to find new agents..lol
(the entire cast of New Year’s Eve…right on)
I still think that 25 years from now, the only 2011 movie that anyone will remember is THE TREE OF LIFE. It took years for people to get 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and it will take time for this one to sink in too. Or maybe I’ve just read too much Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty.
I like the Alan Rickman and Andy Serkis love.
Zoe Saldana in Columbiana was awesome!!!
But really, for the best nude scene… hello, Fassbender walking around apartment butt naked… not mentioned, but instead, his subway seduction? Sheesh. 🙂
A little disappointed you ladies couldn’t get behind Melissa McCarthy for her work in Bridesmaids, one of the most daring and brave performances of the year.
Also what’s up with the group’s hate towards Drive?
Much better than the Women’s Critics nominations that’s for sure.
LOL with the mention for Most Egregious Age Difference for “Twilight”! Very cool choice, indeed.
Didn’t understand “Jessica Chastain for performances in four highly acclaimed films” (I guess Tree of Life, The Debt, The Help and Take Shelter). But how anout her work in “Texas Killing Fields” and “Coriolanus”, and in “Wild Salome”, shown in Venice? Why there a not considered for this nomination? I prefer her in “Texas” than in “The Help”.
wow some alan rickman Love
Kind of lame that an organization of women couldn’t nominate Diablo Cody for screenwriting and Lynne Ramsey for directing in the “General”/non-gender specific categories–two people who happen to be female–who belong on any short list for their respective efforts this year, gender-specific AND otherwise.
Further irony that they admonish the Hollywood Reporter director’s roundtable not having any women.
Glenn Close for icon and defying age and not getting nominated for her performance?
You love the violent elevator scene in Drive, but it’s nominated for “movie you wanted to love, but just couldn’t get into”?
Bunch of huh’s.