Tuesday, March 19, 2024

The 2018 Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC) Winners

By Matt Neglia 

The Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC) have announced their winners representing the best in film for 2018.

Click below to see the winners.

BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN
Mary Shelley
Roma (RUNNER-UP)
The Favourite (WINNER)
Widows

BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (WINNER)
Leave No Trace (RUNNER-UP)
The Kindergarten Teacher
You Were Never Really Here

BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER [Screenwriting Award]
Sara Colangelo: The Kindergarten Teacher
Debra Granik: Leave No Trace (RUNNER-UP)
Tamara Jenkins: Private Life 
Audrey Wells: The Hate U Give (WINNER)

BEST ACTRESS
Toni Collette, Hereditary (RUNNER-UP)
Olivia Colman, The Favourite 
(WINNER)
Viola Davis, Widows
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Kindergarten Teacher

BEST ACTOR
Ben Foster, Leave No Trace
Ethan Hawke, First Reformed (WINNER)
Viggo Mortensen, Green Book (RUNNER-UP)
Hugo Weaving, Black 47

BEST COMEDIC ACTRESS
Helena Bonham Carter, 55 Steps
Olivia Colman, The Favourite (WINNER)
Kathryn Hahn, Private Life 
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me? (RUNNER-UP)

BEST YOUNG ACTRESS
Elle Fanning, Mary Shelley
Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade (WINNER)
Thomasin McKenzie, Leave No Trace (RUNNER-UP)
Amandla Stenberg, The Hate U Give

BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
Capernaum (RUNNER-UP)
Happy As Lazzaro
Roma (WINNER)
Zama

BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
RBG (WINNER)
Say Her Name: The Life And Death Of Sandra Bland
Seeing Allred
Shirkers (RUNNER-UP)

WOMEN’S WORK/BEST ENSEMBLE
55 Steps
Ocean’s Eight
The Favourite (RUNNER-UP)
Widows (
WINNER)

SPECIAL MENTION AWARDS

COURAGE IN FILMMAKING
Haifaa Al-Mansour, Mary Shelley (RUNNER-UP)
Sara Colangelo, The Kindergarten Teacher
Sandra Luckow, That Way Madness Lies
Jennifer Fox, The Tale (WINNER)

COURAGE IN ACTING [Taking on unconventional roles that radically redefine the images of women on screen]
Helena Bonham Carter: 55 Steps
Viola Davis: Widows (RUNNER-UP)
Nicole Kidman: Destroyer (WINNER)

Melissa McCarthy: Can You Ever Forgive Me?

ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD: For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women
Call Her Ganda
I Am Not A Witch
On Her Shoulders
Say Her Name: The Life And Death Of Sandra Bland (WINNER)

JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: For best expressing the woman of color experience in America
If Beale Street Could Talk (WINNER)
Life And Nothing More
The Hate U Give
Widows

KAREN MORLEY AWARD: For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity
93 Queen
On The Basis Of Sex
Roma (WINNER)
Woman Walks Ahead

THE INVISIBLE WOMAN AWARD: [Performance by a woman whose exceptional impact on the film dramatically, socially or historically, has been ignored]
Yalitza Aparicio, Roma
Glenn Close, The Wife (WINNER)
Andrea Riseborough, Nancy
The Women Of Widows

BEST SCREEN COUPLE
A Star Is Born
Crazy Rich Asians
Disobedience
If Beale Street Could Talk (WINNER)

BEST FEMALE ACTION HEROES
Adrift
55 Steps
Black Panther (WINNER)
RBG

MOMMIE DEAREST WORST SCREEN MOM OF THE YEAR AWARD
Krista Allen, Party Mom
Toni Collette, Hereditary
Nicole Kidman, Destroyer
Jacki Weaver, Widows (WINNER)

BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES
Black Panther (WINNER)
Like Me
On The Basis Of Sex
Widows

BEST ANIMATED FEMALES
Incredibles 2 (WINNER)
Liyana
Mary And The Witch’s Flower
Mirai No Mirai

BEST FAMILY FILM
Eighth Grade (WINNER)
Incredibles 2
Science Fair
The Hate U Give

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

WFCC HALL OF SHAME
Bryan Singer

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Matt Neglia
Matt Negliahttps://nextbestpicture.com/
Obsessed about the Oscars, Criterion Collection and all things film 24/7. Critics Choice Member.

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