2023 Women Film Critics Circle winners.

BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN
WINNER: Barbie
RUNNERS-UP: Poor Things, A Thousand and One, The Color Purple & Origin

BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN
WINNER: Past Lives – Celine Song
RUNNERS-UP: Saltburn – Emerald Fennell, Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet & Origin – Ava DuVernay

BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER (Screenwriting Award)
WINNER: Past Lives – Celine Song
RUNNERS-UP: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret – Kelly Fremon Craig, Origin – Ava DuVernay & Saltburn – Emerald Fennell

BEST ACTRESS
WINNER: Emma Stone – Poor Things
RUNNERS-UP: Annette Bening – Nyad, Aunjanue Ellis – Origin, Helen Mirren – Golda & Teyana Taylor – A Thousand and One

BEST ACTOR
WINNER: Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
RUNNERS-UP: Charles Melton – May December, Colman Domingo – Rustin & Gael Garcia Bernal – Cassandro

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
WINNER: Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
RUNNERS-UP: Julianne Moore – May December, Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple & Jodie Foster – Nyad

BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
WINNER: Anatomy of a Fall
RUNNERS-UP: Four Daughters, Other People’s Children & The Teacher’s Lounge

BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
WINNER: To Kill A Tiger
RUNNERS-UP: Take Care of Maya, Beyond Utopia & The Deepest Breath

BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES
WINNER: Barbie
RUNNERS-UP: Golda, Nyad & Rye Lane

BEST ANIMATED FEMALE
WINNER: Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld) – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
RUNNER-UP (TIE): Ember Lumen (Leah Lewis) – Elemental
RUNNER-UP (TIE): Nimona (Chloe Grace Moretz) – Nimona

BEST SCREEN COUPLE
WINNER: Annette Bening & Jodie Foster – Nyad
RUNNERS-UP: Greta Lee & John Magaro – Past Lives, David Jonsson & Vivian Oparah – Rye Lane & Haley Lu Richardson & Ben Hardy – Love at First Sight

BEST TV SERIES
WINNER: Lessons in Chemistry
RUNNERS-UP: A Small Light, The Morning Show & Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

*ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD – For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women
WINNER: The Color Purple
RUNNERS-UP: The Royal Hotel, Barbie & Shayda

*JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD – For best expressing the woman of color experience in America
WINNER: Killers of the Flower Moon
RUNNERS-UP: The Color Purple, A Thousand and One & Origin

*KAREN MORLEY AWARD – For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity
WINNER: Killers of the Flower Moon
RUNNER-UP: The Color Purple, A Thousand and One & Barbie

ACTING AND ACTIVISM AWARD
Lee Grant

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Dolly Parton