The Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC) have announced their nominations representing the best in film for 2022. The winners will be announced on December 21st, 2022. Here are this year’s nominees…
BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN
She Said
The Woman King
Till
Women Talking
BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN
Don’t Worry Darling – Olivia Wilde
Till – Chinonye Chukwu
The Woman King – Gina Prince-Bythewood
Women Talking – Sarah Polley
BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER (Screenwriting Award)
Rebecca Lenkiewicz – She Said
Emma Donoghue – The Wonder
Dana Stevens (and Maria Bello, story) – The Woman King
Sarah Polley – Women Talking
BEST ACTRESS
Vicky Krieps – Corsage
Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Danielle Deadwyler – Till
Cate Blanchett – TAR
BEST ACTOR
Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Bill Nighy – Living
Brendan Fraser – The Whale
BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
Corsage
Girl
Happening
Murina
Rickshaw
BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
Aftershock
Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down
The Janes
Lucy and Desi
BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Fire of Love
Good Luck To You, Leo Grande
The Woman King
BEST ANIMATED FEMALE
Izzy Hawthorne – Lightyear
Belle Bottom – Minions: The Rise of Gru
Meilin – Turning Red
BEST SCREEN COUPLE
Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward – Empire of Light
Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Kevin Kline & Sigourney Weaver – The Good House
Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack – Good Luck To You, Leo Grande
BEST TV SERIES
Dead to Me
The Handmaid’s Tale
Julia
Yellowjackets
ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD – For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women
ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD: Adrienne Shelly was a promising actress and filmmaker who was brutally strangled in her apartment in 2006 at the age of forty by a construction worker in the building, after she complained about noise. Her killer tried to cover up his crime by hanging her from a shower rack in her bathroom, to make it look like suicide. He later confessed that he was having a “bad day.” Shelly, who left behind a baby daughter, had just completed her film Waitress, which she also starred in, and which was honored at Sundance after her death.
Don’t Worry Darling
Holy Spider
She Said
Women Talking
JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD – For best expressing the woman of colour experience in America
JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: The daughter of a laundress and a musician, Baker overcame being born black, female and poor, and marriage at age fifteen, to become an internationally acclaimed legendary performer, starring in the films Princess Tam Tam, Moulin Rouge and Zou Zou. She also survived the race riots in East St. Louis, Illinois as a child, and later expatriated to France to escape US racism. After participating heroically in the underground French Resistance during WWII, Baker returned to the US where she was a crusader for racial equality. Her activism led to attacks against her by reporter Walter Winchell who denounced her as a communist, leading her to wage a battle against him. Baker was instrumental in ending segregation in many theaters and clubs, where she refused to perform unless integration was implemented.
Alice
Master
Nanny
Till
KAREN MORLEY AWARD – For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity
KAREN MORLEY AWARD: Karen Morley was a promising Hollywood star in the 1930s, in such films as Mata Hari and Our Daily Bread. She was driven out of Hollywood for her leftist political convictions by the Blacklist and for refusing to testify against other actors, while Robert Taylor and Sterling Hayden were informants against her. And also for daring to have a child and become a mother, unacceptable for female stars in those days. Morley maintained her militant political activism for the rest of her life, running for Lieutenant Governor on the American Labor Party ticket in 1954. She passed away in 2003, unrepentant to the end, at the age of 93.
Alice
The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
The Woman King
Women Talking
ACTING AND ACTIVISM AWARD
Geena Davis
Frances McDormand
Nichelle Nichols
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Angela Lansbury
Rita Moreno
THE WOMEN FILM CRITICS CIRCLE PAULINE KAEL JURY AWARDS 2022
BEST FEMALE ACTION HERO
Keke Palmer, Alice
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