Here’s our pal Paddy again with things you would already know if you would start visiting screenonscreen more often.
Best Actor
Eddie Redmayne (The Danish Girl)
Best Actress
Carey Mulligan (Suffragette)
Best Movie about Women
Suffragette
Best Movie by a Woman
Suffragette
Best Young Actress
Brie Larson (Room)
Best Comedic Actress
Amy Schumer (Trainwreck)
Best Woman Storyteller (Screenwriting Award)
Phyllis Nagy (Carol)
Women’s Work / Best Ensemble
Suffragette
Best Foreign Film by or about Women
The Second Mother
Best Theatrically Unreleased Movie by or about Women
Bessie
Best Female Images in a Movie
Suffragette
Best Male Images in a Movie
Bridge of Spies
Worst Female Images in a Movie
Jurassic World
Worst Male Images in a Movie
Steve Jobs
Best Family Film
Inside Out
Best Documentary by or about Women
Amy
Best Female Action Hero
Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road)
Best Animated Female
Amy Poehler (Inside Out)
Best Screen Couple
Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling (45 Years)
Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay (Room)
Best Equality of the Sexes
Mad Max: Fury Road
Courage in Filmmaking
Sarah Gavron (Suffragette)
Courage in Acting (taking on unconventional roles that radically redefine the images of women on screen)
Brie Larson (Room)
Acting and Activism Award
Olivia Wilde
The Invisible Woman Award (performance by a woman whose exceptional impact on the film dramatically, socially or historically, has been ignored)
Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl)
Adrienne Shelly Award (for a film that most passionately opposes violence against women)
He Named Me Malala
Josephine Baker Award (for best expressing the woman of colour experience in America)
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Karen Morley Award (for best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity)
Suffragette
Lifetime Achievement Award
Lily Tomlin
Mommie Dearest Worst Screen Mom of the Year Award
Cate Blanchett (Cinderella)
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Added Value. We’re going to name the members of the Women Film Critics Circle so you can surf around and see what they’re saying more that once a year every mid-December.
THELMA ADAMS
Yahoo! Movies, Indiewire
ALISON BAILES
More Magazine, NBC Today Show, Ebert At The Movies, AlisonBailes.com
CLAUDIA PUIG
USA Today
KAREN BUTLER
UPI, The Irish Echo
SHELLI SONSTEIN
Q104.3 FM, iHeartRadio
SARA STEWART
New York Post
TARA KARAJICA
Variety, Indiewire, Screen International, The Film Prospector, Festivalists
ANNETTE INSDORF
Director of Film Studies, Columbia University; Reel Pieces, 92nd Street Y, Arts Express Syndicate
AMY LONGSDORF
Bergen Record, Toronto Star, Philadelphia Weekly, Camden Courier Post
MOLLY HASKELL
NY Observer, The Nation, Film Comment, Currents
AMY BIANCOLLI
Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News, Albany Times Union/Hearst Newspapers
KAREN BENARDELLO
Shockya.com, The Movie Network
NIKI CRUZ
Filmmaker Magazine, Interview Magazine, Paste Magazine, PopMatters, The Rumpus, The Inquisitr
CYNTHIA LUCIA
Cineaste Magazine
AMANDA MEYNCKE
Seattle Post Intelligencer, Film.com
MONICA CASTILLO
International Business Times, Boston Phoenix, Bitch Magazine, Film Geek Radio, Paste Magazine, Cinema Fix, DigBoston.com
LISA FRENCH
TheConversation.com, Senses of Cinema, School of Media and Communication, Australia
CHRISTINA LANE
Feminist Hollywood, University of Miami: Cinema and Interactive Studies
MARIA ESTEVEZ
GQ Magazine, Vogue [Spain], Cinerama [Spain], Glamour[ Spain]
ROSE CAPP
Senses Of Cinema
CATHERINE BRAY
Channel 4 Film, Guardian, Time Out, Observer, The New Statesman
MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS
Salon.com, WNYC/NPR Radio
PAULA SCHWARTZ
MovieMaker Magazine, The NY Times Carpetbagger, Showbiz411.com
SHAYNA SMITH
BET/ Westwood One Radio Network
FELICIA FEASTER
New York Press, Creative Loafing Atlanta, The Atlantan, Charleston City Paper
MICHELE MANIELIS
Vogue, Marie Claire, News Ltd Australia
LIZA BEAR
Bomb Magazine
KIM NICOLINI
CounterPunch
PENELOPE ANDREW [RIP]
Huffington Post, Bright Lights Film Journal, Arts Express Syndicate, WestView News
CHRISTY LEMIRE
Associated Press, CNN Network
TARA KAYE JUDAH
Triple R FM Radio, Australia, JOY FM Radio, Metro, Screen Hub, Senses of Cinema
TERRA KING
Examiner.com
SHELLEY WADE
Z100/ Kiss108 FM; Clear Channel Radio
AUDREY MARIE BROWN
Ain’t It Cool News, Geek Monthly
SIKIVU HUTCHINSON
Blackfemlens.org, LA Watts Times, KPFK Radio, Los Angeles
SANDRA VARNER
Contra Costa Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Globe Newspaper, Cafe Mocha Radio Syndicate
LISA COLLINS
Hollywood.com, Women And Hollywood/Indiewire, Visionaire Magazine/ V-Online/V-Man, DCTV-New York, Arts Express Radio Syndicate
LOGAN NAKYANZI POLLARD
UK Guardian, ABC Television, Huffington Post
DONNA MORAN
AP Radio/People Radio/CBS Radio
YUKI SARUWATARI
Elle Japan, GQ Japan, Weekly Pia, More (Japan)
MICHELLE ORANGE
Village Voice, TheReeler.com, Movieline
PRAIRIE MILLER
WBAI/Pacifica National Radio Network; Arts Express Radio Syndicate; Indiewire/Criticwire; Newsblaze Wire; From The Women’s Desk
SO YUN UM
Sosreelthoughts.com, Crome Yellow
KARINA LONGWORTH
LA Weekly, Vanity Fair, The Daily Beast
ELLE CASTRO
WBLS Radio; AllHipHop.com
JOY ROSE
Mamapalooza On Film, Don’t Tell Me To Shut Up Radio, Housewives On Prozac
IZUMI HASEGAWA
Hollywood News Wire, Buzzine
JUDY THORBURN
Las Vegas Tribune, TheHollywoodNews.com, TheFlickChicks.com
WINNIE BONELLI
The Independent, Newark Star-Ledger, Life & Style Magazine, Herald News
IRENE CRESPO
Cinemania, El País, El Periódico
DIANNE BROOKS
The Film Files, Writemovies.com
DEBRA WALLACE
British Foreign Press Association, New York Cool, British Cosmo, Time Out Moscow, Pop Culture Madness
JUDYTH PIAZZA
American Perspective Radio, The Student Operated Press; EWorld Wire, Sebastian Sun, Women’s Independent Press, Association of Women in Communications, WWCI TV 10 Anchor; WTTB Radio 1490-AM, Florida
KRISTIN DREYER KRAMER
Women’s Independent Press, NightsAndWeekends.com, Fat Guys At The Movies, On The Marquee, WCBE 90.5 FM Columbus, Ohio
MAX WEISS
Baltimore Magazine, WBAL TV and Radio, Baltimore
EDIE NUGENT
Cinemovie, Arts Express Syndicate
KAMAL LARSUEL
On the Real Radio with Chuck D and Giana Garel; 3BlackChicks.com, Seattle
CHIARA SPAGNOLI GABARDI
King’s Road Magazine, Arise Television
ELOISE PARKER
People.com, Fox News, CNN
S. JHOANNA ROBLEDO
Common Sense Media, MSNBC.com, NY Magazine
CHRISTINA LANE
Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Film & History, Digital Women Film Pioneers Project, Associate Prof, Dept of Cinema and Interactive Media, School of Communication, University of Miami
JACQUELINE MONAHAN
Cineholics.com, TheFlickChicks.com, WebSeriesCon.com
ENEIDA DELVALLE
NY Post: Tempo, Latino News; Viva Voz, V-Me TV Network
CASSANDRA HENRY
3BlackChicks.com, New Orleans
ROSE PACATTE
Sister Rose Goes To The Movies
NANCY KEEFE RHODES
Stone Canoe Journal
MARIE MOORE
EurWeb.com, The Daily Challenge, The New York Beacon
AUDREY BERNARD
Radioscope; Audrey’s Whirl-TV; Editor, EUR; Arts Editor, Harlem News Group
MELISSA WALTERS
Blackfilm.com
ANNE RASO
Today’s Black Woman, Black Noir, Word Up, Teen Drean, Jam Rock, Movie Magic, Black Men Magazine
DONNA K.
Filmmaker Magazine, Hammer To Nail
LESLEY COFFIN
TheMarySue.com, Filmoria
JUDITH PASTERNAK
The Indypendent Newspaper
DOMINGA MARTIN
Creme-Magazine.com, Glam.com, Urban Thought Collective
VERONICA MIXON
Film Gazette
BREE PERLMAN
Austin Daze Magazine
Movies by/about women… Carol, Girlhood (directed by a woman), Brooklyn, Inside Out, Tangerine, Mad Max: Fury Road, Grandma, Clouds of Sils Maria, Diary of a Teenage Girl, Room… but, yeah, Sufragette wins seven (SEVEN!) awards? Sure.
I’d have gone with YOUTH as worst representation of women, because yikes.
What an intriguing group of awards. As I scrolled I was expecting to see some love for Tangerine, Carol, Brooklyn, etc., though no chagrin to Suffragette. Enjoyable enough of a film, good performances and vision, though in my opinion it lacked any *fist pump* moments.
I could understand an award for Suffragette in the female ensemble category (let’s be honest, the cast was terrific) , and if they had an award for overall positive subject matter then by all means.
And for what my cisgender, white, male “two-cents” are worth, considering this award looks to be a by-women-for-women thing – why handout awards for “worst” anything? Aside from the Razzies no one does that – GLAAD and the various awards bodies for black cinema seem to do just fine honoring the positive. It puts a negative spin on the whole thing.
Iron Jawed Angels, the HBO film from years ago about American women gaining the right to vote, is an AMAZING movie, I’d encourage you all to check it out if you haven’t.
This is the most confusing (yet bland) set of awards I have seen so far this season. It’s kind of ironic that the Women Film Critics Circle contribute to giving ‘women’s movies’ (whatever that is) a bad name,
A shame and a missed opportunity.
What a bland list. What about woc? Suffragette was dismissed because it’s not good. There were many more deserving female movies.
This is completely and utterly unfair: Worst Female Images in a Movie — Jurassic World
Yes she ran in heels. She also pretty much saved the day, even saving Chris Pratt’s character from being killed. Keep in mind they chose this over a movie like Kingsman and Ted 2.
I have to agree. She also wasn’t naked, had a career, and a lot of screen time. Meaning she was a way more positive image than many women in movies this year.
Agreed. Jurassic World, while fun, showed iffy images of both men and women but they weren’t terrible. If it’s because of the heels then they should give the award to Bryce Dallas Howard since it was her idea to run in them. Kingsman, though I loved it, had a princess telling the hero if he saves the world she’ll let him stick a cock up her ass. The booing narrative against Jurassic World was blown out of proportion because of how much money it made.
I think it’s more that she’s portrayed as incredibly uncaring because she’s so career driven and is only redeemed in the end by her desire to have children. On top of that you have the young woman who is put in charge of babysitting teenagers she doesn’t know who run away and for that she is treated to a villain’s gruesome death in a moment we’re apparently all supposed to cheer.
I mean, I’m not super upset or anything but I can see why it was chosen.
sadly Suffragette isn’t one of the best 50 movies of the year
true, this award is a joke. They are straining themselves to find movies that fit their narrow description and they picked the worst. I’d say that Carol, Brooklyn, Room, MMFR, Trainwreck, Inside Out, TFA (which they didn’t see at the time of voting), The Spy are all better movies about women than Failed Oscar Bait.
I’m not understanding the Invisible Woman Award to Alicia Vikander (”The Danish Girl”) for a ”Performance by a woman whose exceptional impact on the film dramatically, socially or historically, has been ignored.” Vikander’s work has hardly been ignored. She got better reviews than Redmayne got, and received numerous nominations.
And there wasn’t some way to salute Saoirse Ronan (”Brooklyn”) or cinematographer Maryse Alberti (”Creed”) ?
Other possible honorees: Marielle Heller and Bel Powley (”The Diary of a Teenage Girl”); Mya Taylor (”Tangerine”). … And Cate Blanchett gets noticed … not for ”Carol,” but as ”Worst Mom” in ”Cinderella”?
The Invisible Woman award’s description refers not to the performer, I think, but to the character.
I thought that’s what they might’ve meant, but the award goes to the performer. It’s awkwardly described as ”performance by a woman whose exceptional impact on the film dramatically, socially or historically, has been ignored.” It sounds as if it’s the female performer who’s been ignored. They probably meant: ”performance OF a woman …” It would be clearer this way: ”Best film performance saluting a woman who has been dramatically, socially or historically ignored.”
And while we’re at it, why not name the woman who’s been ignored? Gerda Wegener.
Way ahead of the curve as per usual. *I* saluted Alberti weeks agonon this very forum.