The Women Film Critics Circle has announced its picks for the best of 2025.  And here they are:

Best Movie About Women
Winner: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Runners Up: Hamnet, Eleanor the Great & Sorry, Baby

Best Movie by a Woman
Winner: Chloé Zhao (Hamnet)
Runners Up: Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby), Lynne Ramsay (Die My Love) & Mary Bronstein If I Had Legs I’d Kick You)

Best Woman Storyteller (Screenwriting Award)
Winner: Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell (Hamnet)
Runners Up: 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
Winner: Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)
Runners Up: Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You), Amanda Seyfried (The Testament of Ann Lee) & Jennifer Lawrence (Die My Love)

Best Actor
Winner: Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon)
Runners Up: Michael B. Jordan (Sinners), Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another) & Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme)

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Regina Hall (One Battle After Another)
Runners Up: Andrea Riseborough (Goodbye June), Odessa A’zion (Marty Supreme) & Samantha Morton (Anemone)

Best Foreign Film by or About Women
Winner (tie): Left-Handed Girl
Winner (tie): The Voice of Hind Rajab
Runners Up: All That’s Left of You & Belén

Best Documentary by or About Women
Winner: My Mom Jayne
Runners Up: The Perfect Neighbor, Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk & The Librarians

Best Equality of the Sexes
Winner: Sinners
Runners Up: The Testament of Ann Lee, Lilly & Tatami

Best Animated Female
Winner: Rumi (K-Pop Demon Hunters)
Runners Up (tie): Amélie (Little Amélie or the Character of Rain) & Judy Hopps (Zootopia 2)
Runner Up: Scarlet (Scarlet)

Best Screen Couple
Winner: Wunmi Mosaku and Michael B. Jordan (Sinners)
Runners Up: Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal (Hamnet), Elizabeth Olsen and Miles Teller (Eternity) & Laura Dern and Will Arnett (Is This Thing On?)

Best TV Series
Winner: Hacks (Season 4)
Runners Up: Dying for Sex, The Girlfriend & The White Lotus (Season 3)

Adrienne Shelly Award*
For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women
Winner: Sorry, Baby
Runners Up: Christy, Companion & Lilly

Josephine Baker Award*
For best expressing the woman of color experience in America
Winner: Sinners
Runners Up: Hedda, Rosemead & Wicked: For Good

Karen Morley Award*
For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity
Winner: Eleanor the Great
Runners Up (tie): Die My Love & The Testament of Ann Lee
Runner Up: Familiar Touch

Acting and Activism Award
America Ferrera

Lifetime Achievement Award
Diane Keaton