Women Film Critics Circle
Awards: December 28, 2005
BEST PICTURE BY A WOMAN
Prize Winner Of Defiance, Ohio: Jane Anderson
BEST PICTURE ABOUT WOMEN (tie winners)
In Her Shoes: Curtis Hanson
Nine Lives: Rodrigo Garcia
BEST ACTRESS
Charlize Theron: North Country
BEST ACTOR
David Strathairn: Good Night and Good Luck
BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE (tie winners)
Paula Parker: Hustle & Flow
Sarah Jessica Parker: The Family Stone
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Pride And Prejudice
BEST FEMALE IMAGE IN A MOVIE
North Country: Charlize Theron, Frances McDormond, Sissy Spacek
BEST FOREIGN FILM
Sequins: Eleonore Faucher
MOST OFFENSIVE MALE CHARACTERS
Nicolas Cage: Lord Of War
Damon Dash: State Property II
Johnny Depp: The Libertine
WFCC HALL OF SHAME
Domino: Tony Scott
Don’t Move: Sergio Castellitto
State Property II: Damon Dash
BEST TITLE, IN RECOGNITION OF THE
HOPEFULLY INNER FEMALE IN EVERY MACHO GUY
Cinderella Man
BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES
March Of The Penguins
MOST ANIMATED FEMALE
Helena Bonham Carter, Corpse Bride
BEST DOCUMENTARIES
In Recognition Of Women’s Excellence In Documentary Filmmaking, In
Light of their General Exclusion From Mainstream Filmmaking:
ABOVE AND BEYOND:
The Future Of Food: Debra Koons GarciaGROUNDBREAKER:
McLibel: Fanny Armstrong
Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies Of Wrestling:
Ruth Leitman
COURAGE IN FILMMAKING
Wall: Simone Bitton
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
RUBY DEE
ACTING AND ACTIVISM
Vanessa Redgrave
Lynn Whitfield (Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story).
The Women Film Critics Circle is an association of women film critics and reporters from around the country, who are involved in print, radio, online and TV broadcast media. We have come together to form the first women critics association in the country, in the belief that women’s perspectives and voices in film criticism need to be recognized fully.