{"id":362915,"date":"2025-12-21T17:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/362915\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T17:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:24:08","slug":"the-2025-women-film-critics-circle-wfcc-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/362915\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2025 Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC) Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC<\/a>) have announced their winners representing the best in film for 2025. Here are this year\u2019s winners\u2026<\/p>\n

Best Movie About Women
Winner: If I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You<\/a>
Runners Up: Hamnet<\/a>, Eleanor the Great<\/a> & Sorry, Baby<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Movie by a Woman
Winner: Chlo\u00e9 Zhao (Hamnet<\/a>)
Runners Up: Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby<\/a>), Lynne Ramsay (Die My Love<\/a>) & Mary Bronstein If I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Best Woman Storyteller (Screenwriting Award)
Winner: Chlo\u00e9 Zhao, Maggie O\u2019Farrell (Hamnet<\/a>)
Runners Up: Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby<\/a>), Lynne Ramsay, Alice Birch (with Enda Walsh) (Die My Love<\/a>) & Mary Bronstein (If I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Best Actress
Winner: Jessie Buckley (Hamnet<\/a>)
Runners Up: Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You<\/a>), Amanda Seyfried (The Testament of Ann Lee<\/a>) & Jennifer Lawrence (Die My Love<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Best Actor
Winner: Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon<\/a>)
Runners Up: Michael B. Jordan (Sinners<\/a>), Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another<\/a>) & Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet (Marty Supreme<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Regina Hall (One Battle After Another<\/a>)
Runners Up: Andrea Riseborough (Goodbye June<\/a>), Odessa A\u2019zion (Marty Supreme<\/a>) & Samantha Morton (Anemone<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Best Foreign Film by or About Women
Winner (tie): Left-Handed Girl<\/a>
Winner (tie): The Voice of Hind Rajab<\/a>
Runners Up: All That\u2019s Left of You<\/a> & Bel\u00e9n<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Documentary by or About Women
Winner: My Mom Jayne<\/a>
Runners Up: The Perfect Neighbor<\/a>, Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk<\/a> & The Librarians<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Equality of the Sexes
Winner: Sinners<\/a>
Runners Up: The Testament of Ann Lee<\/a>, Lilly & Tatami<\/p>\n

Best Animated Female
Winner: Rumi (K-Pop Demon Hunters<\/a>)
Runners Up (tie): Am\u00e9lie (Little Am\u00e9lie or the Character of Rain<\/a>) & Judy Hopps (Zootopia 2<\/a>)
Runner Up: Scarlet (Scarlet<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Best Screen Couple
Winner: Wunmi Mosaku and Michael B. Jordan (Sinners<\/a>)
Runners Up: Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal (Hamnet<\/a>), Elizabeth Olsen and Miles Teller (Eternity<\/a>) & Laura Dern and Will Arnett (Is This Thing On?<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Best TV Series
Winner: Hacks<\/a> (Season 4)
Runners Up: Dying for Sex<\/a>, The Girlfriend & The White Lotus<\/a> (Season 3)<\/p>\n

Adrienne Shelly Award*
For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women
Winner: Sorry, Baby<\/a>
Runners Up: Christy<\/a>, Companion<\/a> & Lilly<\/p>\n

Josephine Baker Award*
For best expressing the woman of color experience in America
Winner: Sinners<\/a>
Runners Up: Hedda<\/a>, Rosemead<\/a> & Wicked: For Good<\/a><\/p>\n

Karen Morley Award*
For best exemplifying a woman\u2019s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity
Winner: Eleanor the Great<\/a>
Runners Up (tie): Die My Love<\/a> &\u00a0The Testament of Ann Lee<\/a>
Runner Up: Familiar Touch<\/a><\/p>\n

Acting and Activism Award
America Ferrera<\/p>\n

Lifetime Achievement Award
Diane Keaton<\/p>\n

Adrienne Shelly Award: 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 attempted to stage the murder as a suicide before confessing. Shelly left behind a baby daughter and had just completed her film Waitress, which was later honored at Sundance.<\/p>\n

Josephine Baker Award: Born to a laundress and a musician, Baker overcame poverty, racism, and early marriage to become an internationally acclaimed performer and activist. A WWII French Resistance hero, she later returned to the U.S. to fight segregation and racism, enduring public attacks for her beliefs while helping integrate theaters and clubs.<\/p>\n

Karen Morley Award: Karen Morley was a rising Hollywood star of the 1930s whose career was destroyed by the Blacklist due to her leftist political convictions and refusal to testify against others. She remained a lifelong activist and political candidate, passing away in 2003 at age 93.<\/p>\n

What do you think of the winners? Please let us know your thoughts on our X<\/a> account. Click here<\/a> for more upcoming awards season dates, here<\/a> for the most recent tally of awards season winners, here<\/a> for our precursor tracker, and here<\/a> for our current Oscar predictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC) have announced their winners representing the best in film for 2025. Here are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,107828,97900,134,344,170107,197504],"class_list":{"0":"post-362915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-award-winners","11":"tag-awards-season","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-precursor-awards-2025","15":"tag-wfcc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}