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
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