The Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC) have announced their winners representing the best in film for 2025. Here are this year’s winners…
Best Movie About Women
Winner: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Runners Up: Hamnet, Eleanor the Great & Sorry, Baby
Best Movie by a Woman
Winner: Chloé Zhao (Hamnet)
Runners Up: Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby), Lynne Ramsay (Die My Love) & Mary Bronstein If I Had Legs I’d Kick You)
Best Woman Storyteller (Screenwriting Award)
Winner: Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell (Hamnet)
Runners Up: Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby), Lynne Ramsay, Alice Birch (with Enda Walsh) (Die My Love) & Mary Bronstein (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You)
Best Actress
Winner: Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)
Runners Up: Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You), Amanda Seyfried (The Testament of Ann Lee) & Jennifer Lawrence (Die My Love)
Best Actor
Winner: Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon)
Runners Up: Michael B. Jordan (Sinners), Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another) & Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme)
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Regina Hall (One Battle After Another)
Runners Up: Andrea Riseborough (Goodbye June), Odessa A’zion (Marty Supreme) & Samantha Morton (Anemone)
Best Foreign Film by or About Women
Winner (tie): Left-Handed Girl
Winner (tie): The Voice of Hind Rajab
Runners Up: All That’s Left of You & Belén
Best Documentary by or About Women
Winner: My Mom Jayne
Runners Up: The Perfect Neighbor, Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk & The Librarians
Best Equality of the Sexes
Winner: Sinners
Runners Up: The Testament of Ann Lee, Lilly & Tatami
Best Animated Female
Winner: Rumi (K-Pop Demon Hunters)
Runners Up (tie): Amélie (Little Amélie or the Character of Rain) & Judy Hopps (Zootopia 2)
Runner Up: Scarlet (Scarlet)
Best Screen Couple
Winner: Wunmi Mosaku and Michael B. Jordan (Sinners)
Runners Up: Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal (Hamnet), Elizabeth Olsen and Miles Teller (Eternity) & Laura Dern and Will Arnett (Is This Thing On?)
Best TV Series
Winner: Hacks (Season 4)
Runners Up: Dying for Sex, The Girlfriend & The White Lotus (Season 3)
Adrienne Shelly Award*
For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women
Winner: Sorry, Baby
Runners Up: Christy, Companion & Lilly
Josephine Baker Award*
For best expressing the woman of color experience in America
Winner: Sinners
Runners Up: Hedda, Rosemead & Wicked: For Good
Karen Morley Award*
For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity
Winner: Eleanor the Great
Runners Up (tie): Die My Love & The Testament of Ann Lee
Runner Up: Familiar Touch
Acting and Activism Award
America Ferrera
Lifetime Achievement Award
Diane Keaton
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 attempted to stage the murder as a suicide before confessing. Shelly left behind a baby daughter and had just completed her film Waitress, which was later honored at Sundance.
Josephine Baker Award: Born to a laundress and a musician, Baker overcame poverty, racism, and early marriage to become an internationally acclaimed performer and activist. A WWII French Resistance hero, she later returned to the U.S. to fight segregation and racism, enduring public attacks for her beliefs while helping integrate theaters and clubs.
Karen Morley Award: Karen Morley was a rising Hollywood star of the 1930s whose career was destroyed by the Blacklist due to her leftist political convictions and refusal to testify against others. She remained a lifelong activist and political candidate, passing away in 2003 at age 93.
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