BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN
She Said (WINNER)
The Woman King
Till
Women Talking (RUNNER UP)

BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN
Don’t Worry Darling – Olivia Wilde
Till – Chinonye Chukwu (RUNNER UP)
The Woman King – Gina Prince-Bythewood (RUNNER UP)
Women Talking – Sarah Polley (WINNER)

BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER (Screenwriting Award)
Rebecca Lenkiewicz – She Said (RUNNER UP)
Emma Donoghue – The Wonder
Dana Stevens (and Maria Bello, story) – The Woman King
Sarah Polley – Women Talking (WINNER)

BEST ACTRESS
Vicky Krieps – Corsage
Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once (WINNER)
Danielle Deadwyler – Till (RUNNER UP)
Cate Blanchett – TAR

BEST ACTOR
Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin (RUNNER UP)
Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Bill Nighy – Living
Brendan Fraser – The Whale (WINNER)

BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
Corsage (RUNNER UP)
Girl
Happening (WINNER)
Murina
Rickshaw

BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
Aftershock
Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down
The Janes (WINNER)
Lucy and Desi (RUNNER UP)

BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (RUNNER UP)
Fire of Love
Good Luck To You, Leo Grande (WINNER)
The Woman King

BEST ANIMATED FEMALE
Izzy Hawthorne – Lightyear (RUNNER UP)
Belle Bottom – Minions: The Rise of Gru
Meilin – Turning Red (WINNER)

BEST SCREEN COUPLE
Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward – Empire of Light
Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once (WINNER)
Kevin Kline & Sigourney Weaver – The Good House (RUNNER UP)
Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack – Good Luck To You, Leo Grande

BEST TV SERIES
Dead to Me (RUNNER UP TIE)
The Handmaid’s Tale (WINNER TIE)
Julia (RUNNER UP TIE)
Yellowjackets (WINNER TIE)

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

Don’t Worry Darling
Holy Spider
She Said (RUNNER UP)
Women Talking (WINNER)

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

Alice
Master
Nanny (RUNNER UP)
Till (WINNER)

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

Alice
The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
The Woman King (RUNNER UP)
Women Talking (WINNER)

ACTING AND ACTIVISM AWARD
Geena Davis (WINNER)
Frances McDormand
Nichelle Nichols

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Angela Lansbury
Rita Moreno (WINNER)

THE WOMEN FILM CRITICS CIRCLE PAULINE KAEL JURY AWARDS 2022

BEST FEMALE ACTION HERO
Keke Palmer, Alice

BEST DIRECTRESS: COURAGE IN FILMMAKING
Olivia Wilde, Don’t Worry Darling

COURAGE IN ACTING
[Taking on unconventional roles that radically redefine the images of women on screen]
Danielle Deadwyler, Till
Anamaria Vartolomei, Happening

WOMEN’S WORK – BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
The Woman King

THE INVISIBLE WOMAN AWARD
[Supporting performance by a woman whose exceptional impact on the film dramatically, socially or historically, has been ignored]
Charmaine Bingwa, Emancipation

BEST KEPT SECRET – Overlooked Challenging Film Gems
Amitabh Reza Chowdhury, Rickshaw Girl
Nana Mensah, Queen Of Glory

WOMEN SAVING THEMSELVES AWARD
The Janes

MOMMIE DEAREST WORST SCREEN MOM OF THE YEAR
Blonde, Julianne Nicholson as Gladys

HALL OF SHAME
‘Unique, provocative and stylishly opinionated’…Fasten your seat belts!
[Individual WFCC Member Picks]

*The Gotham Awards. For removing the category Best Actress, in the further erasing of women.

*Anatomy Citation. “It doesn’t matter how much I do, I’m still not going to get paid as much as that guy, because of my vagina.” – Jennifer Lawrence speaks out against the continuing literal shortchanging of actresses – regarding Lawrence paid five million dollars less than Leonardo DiCaprio for “Don’t Look Up,” and less than the male cast Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale and Jeremy Renner for “American Hustle.”

*Cringe Citation. Harvey Weinstein’s shameful audiotape recordings. And being reminded of them/him in “She Said.”

*Too Much Information Citation: Emma Thompson, for “Good Luck To You, Leo Grande.”

*Blonde. For depicting only the worst fantasies about Marilyn Monroe, and none of her beauty, grace and intelligence.

*More Blonde. A film that re-exploited Marilyn Monroe and made me feel bad for her. She never had a chance in a man’s world, and this film exploited her again through the unnecessary explicit scenes.

*And More Blonde. An overrated actress romping through the film exposing herself. And why the constant showing of embryos, is it to champion pro-lifers.

*Even More Blonde. Completely inaccurate. The portrayal of the actress is shallow and cliched, and the part of the speaking embryo comes across as a disquieting anti-abortionist statement. My review…

*She Said. A drama about the NY Times investigation into the sex charges against Harvey Weinstein, “She Said” comes off more as a self-congratulatory promo for the NY Times, than emphasis on its victims and intimating a kind of damage control there for its own numerous scandals – the weapons of mass destruction hoax, and most recently calling for the release of Julian Assange – without an apology for the paper’s media participation in orchestrating his incarceration.

*The Cannes Film Festival. For disrespecting credentialed Deadline critic and distinguished WFCC member Valerie Complex, treating her with racist implications as an intruder there. On Being Black At Cannes: How Microaggressions Marred My Festival Experience

*Shame On DOC NYC. For announcing then scrubbing the name off their public list, secretly inviting as guest of honor a cinematographer from the Ukraine Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, Dmytro Kozatsky, who sports Nazi tattoos, and is fond of creating photographs of swastika carved pizzas, while dragging out from the premises a young woman protesting the event.

These are mostly worth it just for the salty hall of shame type awards like their Blonde hate

Also liked giving She Said BP and one of its members giving it a Hall of Shame at the same time.