THE WOMEN FILM CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017
**Lady Bird
Sophie And The Rising Sun
The Florida Project
BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN
First They Killed My Father
**Lady Bird
Mudbound
BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER [Screenwriting Award]
**Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Maggie Greenwald: Sophie And The Rising Sun
Dee Reese, Mudbound
Angela Workman, The Zookeeper’s Wife
Sally Hawkins, Maudie
Sally Hawkins, The Shape Of Water
**Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Cynthia Nixon, A Quiet Passion
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
**Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Seo-Hyun Ahn, Okja
Mckenna Grace, Gifted
**Brooklynn Prince, The Florida Project
Millicent Simmonds, Wonderstruck
Tiffany Haddish, Girls Trip
**Allison Janney: I, Tonya
Margo Robbie: I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
A Fantastic Woman
**First They Killed My Father
In The Fade
Thelma
Maudie
**The Light Of The Moon
The Rape Of Recy Taylor
Wind River
*JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: For best expressing the woman of color experience in America
Girls Trip
**Mudbound
Step
The Rape Of Recy Taylor
Battle Of The Sexes
**Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Mudbound
The Post
Sally Hawkins, Maudie
**Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Michelle Rodriguez, The Assignment
Charlize Theron, Atomic Blonde
Amma Asante, A United Kingdom
Kathryn Bigelow, Detroit
Angelina Jolie, First The Killed My Father
**Dee Rees, Mudbound
Jessica Chastain, The Zookeeper’s Wife
**Betty Gabriel, Get Out
Sally Hawkins, Maudie
Cynthia Nixon, A Quiet Passion
**Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Faces Places
**Jane
Step
A Quiet Passion
**Girls Trip
Sophie And The Rising Sun
Wonder Woman
Atomic Blonde
In The Fade
The Shape of Water
**Wonder Woman
MOMMIE DEAREST WORST SCREEN MOM OF THE YEAR AWARD
Allison Janney: I, Tonya
Atomic Blonde
**Battle Of The Sexes
Professor Marston And The Wonder Women
Wonder Woman
**Coco
Loving Vincent
The Breadwinner
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
**Coco
Beauty And The Beast
The Breadwinner
Wonder
ACTING AND ACTIVISM AWARD
Ashley Judd, Rose McGowan, and all the women who spoke out against the culture of sexual abuse
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Agnes Varda
BEST RISING FEMALE STARS
Izabela Vidovic, Wonder
Peyton Kennedy, American Fable
WFCC HALL OF SHAME
Harvey Weinstein
*JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: The daughter of a laundress and a musician, Baker overcame being born black, female and poor, and marriage at age fifteen, to become an internationally acclaimed legendary performer, starring in the films Princess Tam Tam, Moulin Rouge and Zou Zou. She also survived the race riots in East St. Louis, Illinois as a child, and later expatriated to France to escape US racism. After participating heroically in the underground French Resistance during WWII, Baker returned to the US where she was a crusader for racial equality. Her activism led to attacks against her by reporter Walter Winchell who denounced her as a communist, leading her to wage a battle against him. Baker was instrumental in ending segregation in many theaters and clubs, where she refused to perform unless integration was implemented.
*KAREN MORLEY AWARD: Karen Morley was a promising Hollywood star in the 1930s, in such films as Mata Hari and Our Daily Bread. She was driven out of Hollywood for her leftist political convictions by the Blacklist and for refusing to testify against other actors, while Robert Taylor and Sterling Hayden were informants against her. And also for daring to have a child and become a mother, unacceptable for female stars in those days. Morley maintained her militant political activism for the rest of her life, running for Lieutenant Governor on the American Labor Party ticket in 1954. She passed away in 2003, unrepentant to the end, at the age of 93.
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