Women Film Critics Circle Awards announced

The Women Film Critics Circle announced its 2020 Awards on 8 March 2021, International Women’s Day.

The awards are given for the best movies over the past year by and about women – and outstanding achievements by women.

And yes I am a member, part of the association of 80 women film critics and scholars from around the country and internationally, who are involved in print, radio, online and TV broadcast media.

The WFCC came together in 2004 to form the first women critics’ organisation in the United States, in the belief that women’s perspectives and voices in film criticism need to be recognised fully. WFCC also prides itself on being the most culturally and racially diverse critics group in the country by far, and best reflecting the diversity of movie audiences.

Scroll down for the main winners and runners-up – check out more award winners, all nominees, and the annual WFCC special awards too, at the Critical Women website.

BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN

WINNER: Promising Young Woman
Runner Up: Never Rarely Sometimes Always

BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN

WINNER: Nomadland – Chloe Zhao
Runner Up: Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennell

BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER (Screenwriting Award)

WINNER: Never Rarely Sometimes Always – Eliza Hittman
Runner Up: Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennell

BEST ACTRESS

WINNER: Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman
Runner Up (tie): Frances McDormand – Nomadland
Runner Up (tie): Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman
(Read my review of Pieces Of A Woman)

BEST ACTOR

WINNER: Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Runner Up: Anthony Hopkins – The Father
(Read my review of The Father)

BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN

WINNER: La Llorona
Runner Up: True Mothers

BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN

WINNER: Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story
Runner Up: Time
(Read my review of Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story)

BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES:

WINNER: EMMA.
Runner Up: I Care a Lot
(Read my reviews of EMMA. and I Care A Lot)

BEST ANIMATED FEMALE:

WINNER: Fei Fei – Over the Moon
Runner Up: Mebh Og MacTire – Wolfwalkers

BEST SCREEN COUPLE:

WINNER: Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan – Ammonite
Runner Up: Tom Hanks and Helena Zengel – News of the World
(Read my review of News Of The World)