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Author:  Jonathan [ Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:23 pm ]
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God I love this group.

Quote:
BEST PICTURE BY A WOMAN [tie]
Away From Her: Sarah Polley
Talk To Me: Kasi Lemmons

BEST PICTURE ABOUT WOMEN
Juno: Jason Reitman

BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER [Screenwriting Award]
Juno: Diablo Cody

BEST ACTRESS
Laura Linney: The Savages

BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE
Amy Adams: Enchanted

BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis: There Will Be Blood

BEST YOUNG ACTRESS
Saoirse Ronan: Atonement

BEST FEMALE IMAGES IN A MOVIE [tie]
Hairspray
Life Support

BEST FOREIGN FILM [tie]
La Vie En Rose
Persepolis

BEST MUSIC
Hairspray: Nikki Blonsky, Queen Latifah

BEST THEATRICALLY UNRELEASED MOVIE BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
Life Support

**ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD
For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women
Redacted

**JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD
For best expressing the woman of color experience in America:
The Great Debaters

**KAREN MORLEY AWARD
For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity:
A Mighty Heart

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Judi Dench

SPECIAL MENTION FOR A FEMALE’S RIGHT TO MALE ROLES IN MOVIES
Cate Blanchett: I'm Not There

ACTING AND ACTIVISM
Angelina Jolie

BEST DOCUMENTARIES

ABOVE AND BEYOND
Redacted [mixed media]


GROUNDBREAKER
Strange Culture: Lynn Hershman-Leeson

COURAGE IN FILMMAKING
Meeting Resistance: Molly Bingham, co-director
BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES [tie]
Away From Her
Becoming Jane

MOST OFFENSIVE MALE CHARACTERS
Crazy Love [Burt Pugach] *****Winning Loser
Norbit [Rasputia] *****Winning Looser
Good Luck Chuck
The Heartbreak Kid
Knocked Up
Revolver
Superbad
Who's Your Caddy

WFCC TOP TEN HALL OF SHAME
Black Snake Moan***Winning Loser
Exterminating Angels***Winning Loser
Goya's Ghost***Winning Loser
Atonement
Captivity
Gone Baby Gone
Hairspray/Edna [John Travolta]
Lust, Caution
Norbit/Rasputia [Eddie Murphy]
Red Road

BEST ANIMATED FEMALE
Enchanted: Elle

BEST FAMILY FILM
Enchanted


**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 tried to cover up his crime by hanging her from a shower rack in her bathroom, to make it look like a 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; 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: 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 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 outspoken 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.

**The Woman's Right To Male Roles In Movies Award is intended to challenge that men have not only the most prominent roles in films, but also the most complex and fully drawn out characters. So when an actress can fight for access to such a role, and it may be rewritten for her, it is one of substance, and free of the usual shallow or demonized female stereotypes


I do find it interesting that the only honor received by Waitress was the "Adrienne Shelley Award," even though that is pretty big.

Author:  snack [ Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:48 pm ]
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Yay Laura Linney! Finally getting some recognition.

Author:  Christian [ Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:30 pm ]
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I love their kookiness. They manage of oppose and promote double-standards at the same time, LOL.

Author:  billybobwashere [ Sat Dec 15, 2007 3:37 am ]
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some of their picks are a bit out there [Knocked Up as an offensive male portrayal? It's about a guy HAVING to learn how to treat and act around women], but it's always interesting to see their picks.

DANIEL DAY LEWIS FTW!

Author:  Christian [ Sat Dec 15, 2007 4:02 am ]
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billybobwashere wrote:
some of their picks are a bit out there [Knocked Up as an offensive male portrayal? It's about a guy HAVING to learn how to treat and act around women], but it's always interesting to see their picks.

DANIEL DAY LEWIS FTW!


I was thinking about the Knocked Up addition and I wonder whether they focused more on the male friends rather than Seth Rogen's character.

Author:  Dr. Lecter [ Sat Dec 15, 2007 9:57 am ]
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GO DDL!

Author:  Jim Halpert [ Sat Dec 15, 2007 3:05 pm ]
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how is gone baby gone insulting women?

as for knocked up and superbad hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Author:  Tyler [ Sat Dec 15, 2007 3:11 pm ]
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Funny thing is, Enchanted is about ten times more insulting than Superbad.

Author:  Snrub [ Sat Dec 15, 2007 5:04 pm ]
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How very regressive.

Author:  zennier [ Sat Dec 15, 2007 11:57 pm ]
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I love how Hairspray wins "Best Female Images in a Movie," then makes the Hall of Shame for.... worst "fe"male images? :wub2:

Author:  Webslinger [ Sun Dec 16, 2007 4:16 pm ]
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So, since the female critics get an awards thing where they get to bitch about even the most slightly unfair presentation of women in movies, does that mean that all the male critics can have theirs? Because it's not like there aren't movies out there that present a piss-poor image of men...

Author:  Levy [ Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:52 pm ]
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Atonement insulting women? It's a chick flick. Ridiculous awards

Author:  Chippy [ Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:59 pm ]
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What a crock of an awards show...

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