Saturday 22 December 2012

WOMEN FILM CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES



Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
Best Actress
Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables)
Best Family Film
Life of Pi
Rise of the Guardians
Best Movie about Women
A Royal Affair
Best Movie by a Woman
Zero Dark Thirty
Best Foreign Film by or about Women
Where Do We Go Now? (Nadine Labaki)
Best Young Actress
Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
Best Woman Storyteller
Julie Delpy (2 Days in New York)
Best Comedic Actress
Maggie Smith (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel)
Women’s Work: Best Ensemble
Judi Dench, Celia Imrie, Maggie Smith and Penelope Wilton (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel)

Best Equality of the Sexes
Zero Dark Thirty
Best Female Images
Zero Dark Thirty
Best Male Images
Lincoln
Best Animated Females
Brave
Worst Female Images
Killer Joe
Think Like a Man
Worst Male Images
Killer Joe
Best Theatrically Unreleased Movie by or about Women
Hemingway & Gellhorn
The Adrienne Shelly Award (a film that most passionately opposes violence against women)
Compliance
The Invisible War
Josephine Baker Award (best expressing the women of colour experience in America)
Middle of Nowhere (Ava DuVernay)
Karen Morley Award (best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity)
A Royal Affair
Acting and Activism Award
Sally Field
Lifetime Achievement Award
Barbra Streisand

Don't ask. These are a few days old. Alas, they weren't on my radar. This lot never are. I would offer up a brief analysis on these choices, but there's no need - they speak for themselves. The WFCC doesn't get any better at this, do they?

2 comments:

  1. Ha! The best movie "by a woman" is dead-on! No competition for Bigelow this year! And A ROYAL WEDDING is a very nice choice for "Film about women," though LES MIS would be another fair enough choice. And the German film BARBARA, which I liked less than most. WAR WITCH and THE DEEP BLUE SEA qualify.

    -Sam Juliano

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    1. Barbara was alright. But, much as I didn't much like A Royal Affair, I agree that it's a nice choice for that award.

      This lot are crazy.

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