The 2024 winners of the Women Film Critics Circle Awards have been announced! Here is this year’s full list of WFCC nominees and winners in all categories!
The Awards season is in full swing, and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC) have just announced the year winners, with all the names of the movies and talented creatives who worked on 2024 films and won big this year!
The Women Film Critics Circle, as stated on their official site, is an association of women film critics and scholars from all over the world. It was founded in 2004 and it is the first first women critics organization in the United States, with members who are located both in the country and internationally. The association’s aim is to fully recognize women’s voices and perspectives in film criticism.
This year’s nominees at the WFCC Awards include some of the movies that everyone has been talking about this awards season, from Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance to Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers and Queer, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist and many more. Among the nominees are also some lesser known gems that you should check out, such as Molly Manning Walker’s How to Have Sex, and some international films that deserve recognition, like Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here and Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light. Among the 2024 winners of the Women Film Critics Circle 2024 Awards are some very popular titles, but there are also many surprises, including some exciting ties that show that 2024 wasn’t a bad year for movies, after all.
So without further ado, let’s take a look at the full list of winners of the 2024 Women Film Critics Circle Award! Find them all below, listed by category.
2024 Women Film Critics Circle Awards: This Year’s Winners
BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN
- WINNER: Emilia Pérez
- Runner up: Wicked
- How to Have Sex
- All We Imagine as Light
- Lee
BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN (directing)
- WINNER: The Substance (Coralie Fargeat)
- Runner up: Lee (Ellen Kuras)
- All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia)
- Treasure (Julia von Heinz)
BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER (Screenwriting Award)
- WINNER: Coralie Fargeat (The Substance)
- Runner up: Payal Kapadia (All We Imagine as Light)
- Julia von Heinz (Treasure)
- Line Langebek Knudsen (The Girl With The Needle)
BEST ACTRESS
- WINNER: Demi Moore (The Substance)
- Runner up (TIE): Pamela Anderson (The Last Showgirl)
- Runner up (TIE): Kate Winslet (Lee)
- Nicole Kidman (Babygirl)
- Saoirse Ronan (The Outrun)
BEST ACTOR
- WINNER: Colman Domingo (Sing Sing)
- Runner up: Adrien Brody (The Brutalist)
- Daniel Craig (Queer)
- Ralph Fiennes (Conclave)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- WINNER: Zoe Saldana (Emilia Pérez)
- Runner up: Felicity Jones (The Brutalist)
- Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson)
- Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez)
BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
- WINNER: Emilia Pérez
- Runner up: I’m Still Here
- All We Imagine as Light
- The Girl with the Needle
BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
- WINNER: Frida
- Runner up: Black Box Diaries
- The Last of the Sea Women
- Zurawski v Texas
BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES
- WINNER: Challengers
- Runner up: The Six Triple Eight
- Daddio
- Civil War
BEST ANIMATED FEMALE
- WINNER (TIE): Memoir of a Snail (Grace)
- WINNER (TIE): The Wild Robot (Roz)
- Runner up: Inside Out 2 (Joy)
BEST SCREEN COUPLE
- WINNER: Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield (We Live in Time)
- Runner up: Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore (The Room Next Door)
- Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn (Daddio)
- Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitizine (The Idea of You)
BEST TV SERIES
- WINNER (TIE): Disclaimer
- WINNER (TIE): The Diplomat
- Runner up: We Were the Lucky Ones
- Lioness
*ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD – For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women
- WINNER: The Substance
- Runner up: Black Box Diaries
- Unstoppable
- Blink Twice
*JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD – For best expressing the woman of color experience in America
- WINNER: Six Triple Eight
- Runner up (TIE): Wicked
- Runner up (TIE): The Fire Inside
- Shirley
*KAREN MORLEY AWARD – For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity
- WINNER: The Last Showgirl
- Runner up: The Six Triple Eight
- Shirley
- Treasure
ACTING AND ACTIVISM
Kerry Washington
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
Maggie Smith
