Women Film Critics Circle 2020: Vencedores

A premiação foi anunciada em 07.03.2021:

BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN
– “Bela Vingança” (“Promising Young Woman”)

BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN
– “Nomadland” – Chloe Zhao

BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER (Screenwriting Award)
– “Nunca, Raramente, Às Vezes, Sempre” – Eliza Hittman

BEST ACTRESS
– Carey Mulligan – “Bela Vingança”

BEST ACTOR
– Chadwick Boseman – “A Voz Suprema do Blues”

BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
– “La Llorona”

BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
– “Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story”

BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES
– “Emma”

BEST ANIMATED FEMALE
– Fei Fei – “Over the Moon”

BEST SCREEN COUPLE
– Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan – “Ammonite”

ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD – For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women
– “Bela Vingança”
(Adrienne Shelly was a promising actress and filmmaker who was brutally strangled in her apartment in 2006 at the age of forty by a construction worker in the building, after she complained about noise. Her killer tried to cover up his crime by hanging her from a shower20rack in her bathroom, to make it look like suicide. He later confessed that he was having a “bad day.” Shelly, who left behind a baby daughter, had just completed her film Waitress, which she also starred in, and which was honored at Sundance after her death.)

JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD – For best expressing the woman of color experience in America
– “Miss Juneteenth”
(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 – For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity
– “The United States vs. Billie Holiday”
(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.)

ACTING AND ACTIVISM AWARD
– Regina King (The first celebrity to commit to the Time’s Up ‘4% Challenge’ which urges the industry to hire more women directors, the award winning actress has also pledged to have women make up fifty percent of the crews for her films.)

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
– Julie Andrews

BEST FEMALE ACTION HERO
– Janelle Monae – “Antebellum”

COURAGE IN FILMMAKING
– Emerald Fennell – “Bela Vingança”

COURAGE IN ACTING
– Janelle Monae – “Antebellum”
(Taking on unconventional roles that radically redefine the images of women on screen)

WOMEN’S WORK – BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
– “Radium Girls”

THE INVISIBLE WOMAN AWARD
– Cicely Tyson – “A Fall From Grace”
(Supporting performance by a woman whose exceptional impact on the film dramatically, socially or historically, has been ignored)

BEST KEPT SECRET – Overlooked Challenging Gems
– “Ammonite”

WOMEN SAVING THEMSELVES AWARD
– Claire Dunn – Herself

MOMMIE DEAREST WORST SCREEN MOM OF THE YEAR
– Sarah Paulson – “Run”

HALL OF SHAME
– Rudy Giuliani – For removing any doubt about the kind of creepy predator he is, in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Of course there were no consequences for his behavior, even though it was captured on film and broadcast worldwide.
– Dennis Harvey – in his Variety review for Promising Young Woman, stating Carey Mulligan is not ‘hot enough’ for the role. Not to mention perpetuating the lie that rape is about sex and not violence against women. And, why we need women film critics more than ever…
– The Prom – for casting straight actors in queer roles in the most anticipated lesbian movie of the year, and making it seem like overcoming homophobia is as simple as singing a song.
– Dallas Sonnier and Adam Donaghey – For sexual harassment and abuse at Cineaste Magazine, and the cover-up.​

~ por Tommy Beresford em março, 08 2021.