Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC) Awards: Complete list of winners and nominees

The Women Film Critics Circle awards winners for this year have been officially announced. The Women Film Critics Circle was the first all-women film critics organization in the United States.

Winners of the 2024 Women Film Critics Circle awards were as follows,

• Best movie about women: Emilia Pérez
• Best movie by a woman: The Substance, Coralie Fargeat
• Best woman storyteller: Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
• Best actress: Demi Moore, The Substance
• Best actor: Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
• Best supporting actress: Zoe Saldana, Emilia Pérez
• Best foreign film by or about women: Emilia Pérez
• Best documentary by or about women: Frida
• Best equality of the sexes: Challengers
• Best animated female: Memoir of a Snail, Grace
• Best animated female: The Wild Robot, Roz
• Best screen couple: Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield, We Live in Time
• Best TV series: Disclaimer
• Best TV series: The Diplomat
• Adrienne Shelly Award: The Substance
• Josephine Baker Award: The Six Triple Eight
• Karen Morley Award: The Last Showgirl
• Acting and activism award: Kerry Washington
• Lifetime achievement award: Maggie Smith

Films such as If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Hamnet, Sinners, and One Battle After Another bagged multiple notable recognitions across categories at the 2025 Women Film Critics Circle Awards. On the television side, Hacks became the top series.

Women Film Critics Circle Awards' official website reads:

"The Women Film Critics Circle is an association of 75 women film critics and scholars from around the country and internationally, who are involved in print, newswire, radio, online and TV broadcast media. We came together in 2004 to form the first women critics organization in the United States, in the belief that women’s perspectives and voices in film criticism need to be recognized fully."

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Complete list of winners and nominees at the 2025 Women Film Critics Circle Awards

Best movie about women

Winner: If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

Runner Up: Hamnet

Other nominees: Eleanor the Great; Sorry, Baby

Best movie by a woman

Winner: Chloé Zhao (Hamnet)

Runner Up: Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby)

Other nominees: Lynne Ramsay (Die My Love); Mary Bronstein (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You)

Best woman storyteller: screenwriting award

Winner: Chloé Zhao, Maggie O'Farrell (Hamnet)

Runner Up: Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby)

Other nominees: Lynne Ramsay, Alice Birch with Enda Walsh (Die My Love); Mary Bronstein (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You)

Best actress

Winner: Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)

Runner Up: Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You)

Other nominees: Amanda Seyfried (The Testament of Ann Lee); Jennifer Lawrence (Die My Love)

Best actor

Winner: Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon)

Runner Up: Michael B. Jordan (Sinners)

Other nominees: Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another); Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme)

Best supporting actress

Winner: Regina Hall (One Battle After Another)

Runner Up: Andrea Riseborough (Goodbye June)

Other nominees: Odessa A’zion (Marty Supreme); Samantha Morton (Anemone)

Best foreign film by or about women

Winner: Left-Handed Girl

Winner: The Voice of Hind Rajab

Other nominees: All That’s Left of You; Belén

Best documentary by or about women

Winner: My Mom Jayne

Runner Up: The Perfect Neighbor

Other nominees: Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk; The Librarians

Best equality of the sexes

Winner: Sinners

Runner Up: The Testament of Ann Lee

Other nominees: Lilly; Tatami

Best animated female

Winner: Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters)

Runner Up: Amélie (Little Amélie or the Character of Rain)

Runner Up: Judy Hopps (Zootopia 2)

Other nominee: Scarlet (Scarlet)

Best screen couple

Winner: Wunmi Mosaku and Michael B. Jordan (Sinners)

Runner Up: Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal (Hamnet)

Other nominees: Elizabeth Olsen and Miles Teller (Eternity); Laura Dern and Will Arnett (Is This Thing On?)

Best TV series

Winner: Hacks (Season 4)

Runner Up: Dying for Sex

Other nominees: The Girlfriend; The White Lotus (Season 3)

Adrienne Shelly Award

Winner: Sorry, Baby

Runner Up: Christy

Other nominees: Companion; Lilly

Josephine Baker Award

Winner: Sinners

Runner Up: Hedda

Other nominees: Rosemead; Wicked: For Good

Karen Morley Award

Winner: Eleanor the Great

Runner Up: Die My Love

Runner Up: The Testament of Ann Lee

Other nominee: Familiar Touch

Acting and activism award

Winner: America Ferrera

Lifetime achievement award

Winner: Diane Keaton

Congratulations to all winners at the 2025 Women Film Critics Circle Awards.

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