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Awards Season is in full throng as a plethora of awards ceremonies have come and gone and there are still many to look forward to!

This time of year may, therefore, seem like a hive of overlong activity or a celebration of notable performances over a strong year for film. It is therefore pleasing to have been a part of the Nominating Committee for another year for these awards from the Women Film Critic Circle (‘WFCC’) highlighting those films with women at the forefront and behind the scenes in film.

In case you are not aware of the activities of the WFCC, here is a brief introduction:

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.

Now, it is time to reveal the winners that have been recently announced (alongside the other nominees for each category) on Wednesday 15 January 2025:

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 Saldana (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