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Jonathan
Begging Naked
Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:07 pm Posts: 14737 Location: The Present (Duh)
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 Women Film Critics Circle winners
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.
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snack
Extraordinary
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:18 pm Posts: 12159
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 Re: Women Film Critics Circle winners
Yay Laura Linney! Finally getting some recognition.
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Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:48 pm |
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Christian
Team Kris
Joined: Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:02 pm Posts: 27584 Location: The Damage Control Table
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I love their kookiness. They manage of oppose and promote double-standards at the same time, LOL.
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Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:30 pm |
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billybobwashere
He didn't look busy?!
Joined: Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:59 pm Posts: 4308
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 Re: Women Film Critics Circle winners
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!
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Sat Dec 15, 2007 3:37 am |
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Christian
Team Kris
Joined: Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:02 pm Posts: 27584 Location: The Damage Control Table
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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.
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Sat Dec 15, 2007 4:02 am |
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Dr. Lecter
You must have big rats
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:28 pm Posts: 92093 Location: Bonn, Germany
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GO DDL!
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Sat Dec 15, 2007 9:57 am |
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Jim Halpert
Stanley Cup
Joined: Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:52 pm Posts: 6981 Location: Hockey Town
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how is gone baby gone insulting women?
as for knocked up and superbad hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
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Sat Dec 15, 2007 3:05 pm |
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Tyler
Powered By Hate
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:55 pm Posts: 7578 Location: Torrington, CT
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Funny thing is, Enchanted is about ten times more insulting than Superbad.
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Sat Dec 15, 2007 3:11 pm |
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Snrub
Vagina Qwertyuiop
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:14 pm Posts: 8767 Location: Great Living Standards
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How very regressive.
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Sat Dec 15, 2007 5:04 pm |
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zennier
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Joined: Sun Oct 23, 2005 2:38 pm Posts: 10316 Location: berkeley
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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? 
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Sat Dec 15, 2007 11:57 pm |
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Webslinger
why so serious?
Joined: Tue Jun 06, 2006 11:24 pm Posts: 4110 Location: Stuck In A Moment I Can't Get Out Of
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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...
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Sun Dec 16, 2007 4:16 pm |
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Levy
Golfaholic
Joined: Wed Jan 05, 2005 2:06 pm Posts: 16054
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Atonement insulting women? It's a chick flick. Ridiculous awards
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Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:52 pm |
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Chippy
KJ's Leading Pundit
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:45 pm Posts: 63026 Location: Tonight... YOU!
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What a crock of an awards show...
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