2012 Women Film Critics Circle Awards – winners

The Women Film Critics Circle has announced their winner for their 2012 WFCC Awards. They have been known to make some eyebrow-raising choices but this year, their selection seems fairly sensible.

As with most awards thus far, they lavished praise on Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty. It won three awards, taking Best Movie by a Woman, Best Equality of the Sexes and Best Female Images.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel won two awards for acting. Maggie Smith was named Best Comedic Actress, while the whole cast won for Best Ensemble. Lincoln also took two awards, for Best Actor (Daniel Day-Lewis) and Best Male Images. The Damish film A Royal Affair took the awards for Best Movie about Women and the Karen Morley Award, given for best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity.

Sally Field was given the Acting and Activism Award, while the Lifetime Achievement Award went to Barbra Streisand.


List of winners for the 2012 Women Film Critics Circle Awards

Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

Best Actress
Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables

Best Family Film
Life of Pi
Rise of the Guardians

Best Movie about Women
A Royal Affair

Best Movie by a Woman
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Foreign Film by or about Women
Where Do We Go Now? Nadine Labaki

Best Young Actress
Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Woman Storyteller
Julie Delpy, 2 Days in New York

Best Comedic Actress
Maggie Smith, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Women’s Work: Best Ensemble
Judi Dench, Celia Imrie, Maggie Smith and Penelope Wilton, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Best Equality of the Sexes
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Female Images
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Male Images
Lincoln

Best Animated Females
Brave

Worst Female Images
Killer Joe
Think Like a Man

Worst Male Images
Killer Joe

Best Theatrically Unreleased Movie by or about Women
Hemingway & Gellhorn

The Adrienne Shelly Award (a film that most passionately opposes violence against women)
Compliance
The Invisible War

Josephine Baker Award (best expressing the women of colour experience in America)
Middle of Nowhere, Ava DuVernay

Karen Morley Award (best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity)
A Royal Affair

Acting and Activism Award
Sally Field

Lifetime Achievement Award
Barbra Streisand