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2024 Women Film Critic Circle (WFCC) Winners: ‘Emilia Pérez’ ‘The Substance’ Lead

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Emilia Pérez has won the Best Movie About Women award from the Women Film Critic Circle (WFCC) and The Substance was named Best Movie By a Woman. Each film picked up multiple wins from the group’s specialized categories.

In television, The Diplomat and Disclaimer were among the winners.

The WFCC was founded in 2004 and it is the first women’s critics organisation in the United States of America. The WFCC seeks to amplify women’s voices and perspectives within film criticism.

Here is the complete list of winners and runners-up.

BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN

WINNER: Emilia Pérez
Runner up: Wicked
How to Have Sex
All We Imagine as Light
Lee

BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN (directing)

WINNER: The Substance (Coralie Fargeat)
Runner up: Lee (Ellen Kuras)
All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia)
Treasure (Julia von Heinz)

BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER (Screenwriting Award)

WINNER: Coralie Fargeat (The Substance)
Runner up: Payal Kapadia (All We Imagine as Light)
Julia von Heinz (Treasure)
Line Langebek Knudsen (The Girl With The Needle)

BEST ACTRESS

WINNER: Demi Moore (The Substance)
Runner up (TIE): Pamela Anderson (The Last Showgirl)
Runner up (TIE): Kate Winslet (Lee)
Nicole Kidman (Babygirl)
Saoirse Ronan (The Outrun)

BEST ACTOR

WINNER: Colman Domingo (Sing Sing)
Runner up: Adrien Brody (The Brutalist)
Daniel Craig (Queer)
Ralph Fiennes (Conclave)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

WINNER: Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez)
Runner up: Felicity Jones (The Brutalist)
Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson)
Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez)

BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN

WINNER: Emilia Pérez
Runner up: I’m Still Here
All We Imagine as Light
The Girl with the Needle

BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN

WINNER: Frida 
Runner up: Black Box Diaries
The Last of the Sea Women
Zurawski v Texas

BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES

WINNER: Challengers
Runner up: The Six Triple Eight
Daddio
Civil War

BEST ANIMATED FEMALE

WINNER (TIE): Memoir of a Snail (Grace)
WINNER (TIE): The Wild Robot (Roz)
Runner up: Inside Out 2 (Joy)

BEST SCREEN COUPLE

WINNER: Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield (We Live in Time)
Runner up: Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore (The Room Next Door)
Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn (Daddio)
Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitizine (The Idea of You)

BEST TV SERIES

WINNER (TIE): Disclaimer
WINNER (TIE): The Diplomat
Runner up: We Were the Lucky Ones
Lioness

ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD – For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women

WINNER: The Substance
Runner up: Black Box Diaries
Unstoppable
Blink Twice

JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD – For best expressing the woman of colour experience in America

WINNER: Six Triple Eight
Runner up (TIE): Wicked
Runner up (TIE): The Fire Inside
Shirley

KAREN MORLEY AWARD – For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity

WINNER: The Last Showgirl
Runner up: The Six Triple Eight
Shirley
Treasure

ACTING AND ACTIVISM

Kerry Washington

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

Maggie Smith

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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