AND THE WINNERS ARE...
Here are the WOMEN FILM CRITICS CIRCLE award winners for 2018:
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 WOMAN STORYTELLER [Screenwriting Award]
**Audrey Wells: The Hate U Give Runner-up: Debra Granik: Leave No Trace
BEST ACTRESS
**Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Runner-up: Toni Collette, Hereditary
BEST ACTOR
**Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
Runner-up: Viggo Mortensen, Green Book
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 FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
**Roma Runner-up: Capernaum
BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
**RBG
Runner-Up: Shirkers
WOMEN’S WORK/BEST ENSEMBLE
**Widows Runner-Up: The Favourite
SPECIAL MENTION AWARDS
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
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. 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 ANIMATED FEMALES
**Incredibles 2
BEST FAMILY FILM
**Eighth Grade
HALL OF SHAME This is a selection of member picks:
*Fifty Shades Freed: For perpetuating unrealistic and demeaning stereotypes of women, being defined by men emotionally and physically.
*Bryan Singer: Accused of committing crimes against young men, his continued status as a hirable, high-paid director is an affront to the women in the film industry who are struggling for recognition.
*Les Moonves: Chairman and CEO of CBS, Moonves resigned in light of allegations that he sexually abused many women, and information on the culture of fear that he reigned over is now coming out.
Baby It's Cold Outside. This traditional holiday season song has now been banned on radio stations following Me-Too protests, as promoting suggestive date rape lyrics. The debate that has followed is raising critical issues for discussion, but all agree that the male character, however culturally dated, is creepy. The Oscar winning song originated in the 1949 musical Neptune's Daughter, performed by Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalban.
