The Women Film Critics Circle gives out its own unique set of awards again this year.
BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN
Mother And Child
BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN
Winter’s Bone
BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER [Screenwriting Award]
The Kids Are All Right: Lisa Cholodenko
BEST ACTRESS
Annette Bening/The Kids Are All Right
BEST ACTOR
Colin Firth/The King’s Speech
BEST YOUNG ACTRESS
Jennifer Lawrence/Winter’s Bone
BEST COMEDIC ACTRESS
Annette Bening/The Kids Are All Right
BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN: *TIE*
Mother
Women Without Men
BEST FEMALE IMAGES IN A MOVIE
Conviction
WORST FEMALE IMAGES IN A MOVIE
Black Swan
BEST MALE IMAGES IN A MOVIE: *TIE*
Another Year
The King’s Speech
WORST MALE IMAGES IN A MOVIE
Jackass 3D
BEST THEATRICALLY UNRELEASED MOVIE BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
Temple Grandin
BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES: *TIE
Another Year
Fair Game
BEST ANIMATED FEMALES
Despicable Me
BEST FAMILY FILM
Toy Story 3
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Helen Mirren
ACTING AND ACTIVISM
Lena Horne [posthumous]
*ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD: For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women:
Winter’s Bone
*JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: For best expressing the woman of color experience in America
For Colored Girls
*KAREN MORLEY AWARD: For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity
Fair Game
COURAGE IN ACTING [Taking on unconventional roles that radically redefine the images of women on screen]
Helen Mirren/The Tempest
THE INVISIBLE WOMAN AWARD [Performance by a woman whose exceptional impact on the film dramatically, socially or historically, has been ignored]
Q’Orianka Kilcher/Princess Kaiulani
BEST DOCUMENTARY BY A WOMAN
A Film Unfinished
WOMEN’S WORK: BEST ENSEMBLE
Mother And Child
BEST SCREEN COUPLE
Another Year: Jim Broadbent/Ruth Sheen as Tom and Gerri