The Women Film Critics Circle has announced their nominations for the best of 2017!  The winners will be named next week!

BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN

• “A Quiet Passion”
• “Lady Bird”
• “Sophie And The Rising Sun”
• “The Florida Project”

BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN

• “Detroit”
• “First They Killed My Father”
• “Lady Bird”
• “Mudbound”

BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER [Screenwriting Award]

• Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird”
• Maggie Greenwald, “Sophie And The Rising Sun”
• Dee Rees, “Mudbound”
• Angela Workman, “The Zookeeper’s Wife”

BEST ACTRESS

• Sally Hawkins, “Maudie”
• Sally Hawkins, “The Shape Of Water”
• Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
• Cynthia Nixon, “A Quiet Passion”

BEST ACTOR

• Timothée Chalamet, “Call Me By Your Name”
• Daniel Kaluuya, “Get Out”
• Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour”
• Denzel Washington, “Roman J. Israel, Esq.”

BEST YOUNG ACTRESS (Under 21)

• Seo-Hyun Ahn, “Okja”
• Mckenna Grace, “Gifted”
• Brooklynn Prince, “The Florida Project”
• Millicent Simmonds, “Wonderstruck”

BEST COMEDIC ACTRESS

• Tiffany Haddish, “Girls Trip”
• Allison Janney, “I, Tonya”
• Margo Robbie, “I, Tonya”
• Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird”

BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN

• “A Fantastic Woman”
• “First They Killed My Father”
• “In The Fade”
• “Thelma”

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

• “Maudie”
• “The Light Of The Moon”
• “The Rape Of Recy Taylor”
• “Wind River”

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

• “Girls Trip”
• “Mudbound”
• “Step”
• “The Rape Of Recy Taylor”

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

• “Battle Of The Sexes”
• “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story”
• “Mudbound”
• “The Post”

COURAGE IN ACTING [Taking on unconventional roles that radically redefine the images of women on screen]

• Sally Hawkins, “Maudie”
• Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
• Michelle Rodriguez, “The Assignment”
• Charlize Theron, “Atomic Blonde”

COURAGE IN FILMMAKING

• Amma Asante, “A United Kingdom”
• Kathryn Bigelow, “Detroit”
• Angelina Jolie, “First The Killed My Father”
• Dee Rees, “Mudbound”

THE INVISIBLE WOMAN AWARD [Supporting performance by a woman whose exceptional impact on the film dramatically, socially or historically, has been ignored]

• Jessica Chastain, “The Zookeeper’s Wife”
• Betty Gabriel, “Get Out”
• Sally Hawkins, “Maudie”
• Cynthia Nixon, “A Quiet Passion”

BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN

• “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story”
• “Faces Places”
• “Jane”
• “Step”

WOMEN’S WORK: BEST ENSEMBLE

• “A Quiet Passion”
• “Girls Trip”
• “Sophie And The Rising Sun”
• “Wonder Woman”

BEST FEMALE ACTION HERO

• “Atomic Blonde”
• “In The Fade”
• “The Shape of Water”
• “Wonder Woman”

BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES

• “Atomic Blonde”
• “Battle Of The Sexes”
• “Professor Marston And The Wonder Women”
• “Wonder Woman”

BEST SCREEN COUPLE

• “Maudie”
• “Professor Marston And The Wonder Women”
• “The Big Sick”
• “The Shape Of Water”

BEST ANIMATED FEMALE(S)

• “Coco”
• “Loving Vincent”
• “The Breadwinner”
• “Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming”

BEST FAMILY FILM

• “Coco”
• “Beauty And The Beast”
• “The Breadwinner”
• “Wonder”