Oscars Watch: 2025 Women Film Critics Circle Awards

22ND ANNUAL WOMEN FILM CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS
Sunday, December 21, 2025

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BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN

IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU • A24

Mary Bronstein | Director
Sara Murphy, Ryan Zacarias, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Eli Bush, Conor Hannon, Richie Doyle | Producers

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Hamnet • Focus Features
Eleanor The Great • Sony Pictures Classics
Sorry, Baby • A24

BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN

Chloé Zhao
HAMNET • Focus Features

Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Sam Mendes, Steven Spielberg | Producers

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Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby
Lynne Ramsay – Die My Love
Mary Bronstein – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER (Screenwriting Award)

HAMNET • Focus Features

Written by Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell

Chloé Zhao | Director
Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Sam Mendes, Steven Spielberg | Producers

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Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby
Lynne Ramsay, Alice Birch (with Enda Walsh) – Die My Love
Mary Bronstein – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Best Actress

JESSIE BUCKLEY
HAMNET • Focus Features

Chloé Zhao | Director
Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Sam Mendes, Steven Spielberg | Producers

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Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Amanda Seyfried – The Testament of Ann Lee
Jennifer Lawrence – Die My Love

Best Actor

ETHAN HAWKE
BLUE MOON • Sony Pictures Classics

Richard Linklater | Director
Mike Blizzard, John Sloss, Richard Linklater | Producers

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Michael B. Jordan – Sinners
Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme

Best Supporting Actress

REGINA HALL
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER •
Warner Bros. Pictures

Paul Thomas Anderson | Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam Somner, Sara Murphy | Producers

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Andrea Riseborough – Goodbye June
Odessa A’zion – Marty Supreme
Samantha Morton – Anemone

BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN (TIE)

LEFT-HANDED GIRL • Netflix

Shih-Ching Tsou | Director
Sean Baker, Mike Goodridge, Alice Labadie, Jean Labadie, Shih-Ching Tsou | Producers

BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN (TIE)

The Voice of Hind Rajab • WILLA

Kaouther Ben Hania | Director
Nadim Cheikhrouha, James Wilson , Odessa Rae | Producers

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All That’s Left of You
Belén

BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN

MY MOM JAYNE: A FILM BY MARISKA HARGITAY • HBO Documentary Films

Mariska Hargitay | Director
Trish Adlesic, Mariska Hargitay | Producers

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The Perfect Neighbor
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
The Librarians

BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES

SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures

Ryan Coogler | Director
Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler | Producers

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The Testament of Ann Lee
Lilly
Tatami

BEST ANIMATED FEMALE

RUMI (Arden Cho)
KPOP DEMON HUNTERS • Netflix

Chris Appelhans, Maggie Kang | Directors
Michelle L.M. Wong | Producer

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Amélie – Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Judy Hopps – Zootopia 2
Scarlet – Scarlet

BEST SCREEN COUPLE

Wunmi Mosaku & Michael B. Jordan
SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures

Ryan Coogler | Director
Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler | Producers

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Jessie Buckley & Paul Mescal – Hamnet
Elizabeth Olsen & Miles Teller – Eternity
Laura Dern & Will Arnett – Is This Thing On?

BEST TV SERIES

HACKS: SEASON FOUR • HBO Max

Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello, Jen Statsky | Creators
Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello, Mike Schur, David Miner, Morgan Sackett | Executive Producers

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Dying for Sex
The Girlfriend
The White Lotus: Season Three

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

SORRY, BABY • A24

Eva Victor | Director
Mark Ceryak, Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski | Producers

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Christy
Companion
Lilly

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.

JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD
For best expressing the woman of color experience in America

SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures

Ryan Coogler | Director
Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler | Producers

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Hedda
Rosemead
Wicked: For Good

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.

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

Eleanor the Great •
Sony Pictures Classics

Scarlett Johansson | Director
Jessamine Burgum, Kara Durrett, Keenan Flynn, Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Lia, Celine Rattray, Trudie Styler | Producers

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Die My Love
The Testament of Ann Lee
Familiar Touch

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.

ACTING AND ACTIVISM AWARD

America Ferrera

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Diane Keaton

Women Film Critics Circle

Best Movie About Women:
Best Movie By A Woman:
Best Woman Storyteller:
Best Actress:
Best Actor:
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Best Foreign Film:
Best Documentary:
Best Equality of the Sexes:
Best Animated Female:
Best Screen Couple:
Adrienne Shelly Award:
Josephine Baker Award:
Karen Morley Award:
Acting and Activism Award:
Lifetime Achievement Award:

“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
Chloé Zhao – “Hamnet”
Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell – “Hamnet”
Jessie Buckley – “Hamnet”
Ethan Hawke – “Blue Moon”
Regina Hall – “One Battle After Another”
“Left-Handed Girl” | “The Voice of Hind Rajab”
“My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay”
“Sinners”
Rumi – “KPop Demon Hunters”
Wunmi Mosaku & Michael B. Jordan – “Sinners”
“Sorry, Baby”
“Sinners”
“Eleanor The Great”
America Ferrera
Diane Keaton

ABOUT THE Women Film Critics Circle

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.