Read the complete list of winners for the 2023 Women Film Critics Circle awards, recognizing the best in film this past year.
BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN
Winner: Barbie
Runners-Up: Poor Things, A Thousand and One, The Color Purple & Origin
BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN
Winner: Past Lives – Celine Song
Runners-Up: Saltburn – Emerald Fennell, Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet & Origin – Ava DuVernay
BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER (Screenwriting Award)
Winner: Past Lives – Celine Song
Runners-Up: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret – Kelly Fremon Craig, Origin – Ava DuVernay & Saltburn – Emerald Fennell
BEST ACTRESS
Winner: Emma Stone – Poor Things
Runners-Up: Annette Bening – Nyad, Aunjanue Ellis – Origin, Helen Mirren – Golda & Teyana Taylor – A Thousand and One
BEST ACTOR
Winner: Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Runners-Up: Charles Melton – May December, Colman Domingo – Rustin & Gael Garcia Bernal – Cassandro
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Winner: Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Runners-Up: Julianne Moore – May December, Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple & Jodie Foster – Nyad
BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
Winner: Anatomy of a Fall
Runners-Up: Four Daughters, Other People’s Children & The Teacher’s Lounge
BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
Winner: To Kill A Tiger
Runners-Up: Take Care of Maya, Beyond Utopia & The Deepest Breath
BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES
Winner: Barbie
Runners-Up: Golda, Nyad & Rye Lane
BEST ANIMATED FEMALE
Winner: Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld) – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Runners-Up: Ember Lumen (Leah Lewis) – Elemental, Nimona (Chloe Grace Moretz) – Nimona
BEST SCREEN COUPLE
Winner: Annette Bening & Jodie Foster – Nyad
Runners-Up: Greta Lee & John Magaro – Past Lives, David Jonsson & Vivian Oparah – Rye Lane & Haley Lu Richardson & Ben Hardy – Love at First Sight
BEST TV SERIES
Winner: Lessons in Chemistry
Runners-Up: A Small Light, The Morning Show & Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
*ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD – For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women
Winner: The Color Purple
Runners-Up: The Royal Hotel, Barbie & Shayda
*JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD – For best expressing the woman of color experience in America
Winner: Killers of the Flower Moon
Runners-Up: The Color Purple, A Thousand and One & Origin
*KAREN MORLEY AWARD – For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity
Winner: Killers of the Flower Moon
Runner-Up: The Color Purple, A Thousand and One & Barbie
ACTING AND ACTIVISM AWARD
Lee Grant
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Dolly Parton
still courtesy of Warner Bros.
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