Gary Dretzka
Leonard Klady
David Poland
Douglas Pratt
Ray Pride

WOMEN FILM CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNERS
December 14, 2006


BEST PICTURE BY A WOMAN
Valerie Faris
Little Miss Sunshine

BEST PICTURE ABOUT WOMEN (tie winners)
Volver
The Queen

BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER (Screenwriting)
Aline Brosh McKenna
The Devil Wears Prada

BEST ACTRESS
Helen Mirren
The Queen

BEST ACTOR
Djimon Hounsou
Blood Diamond

BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE
Meryl Streep
The Devil Wears Prada

BEST YOUNG ACTRESS
Abigail Breslin
Little Miss Sunshine

BEST FEMALE IMAGES IN A MOVIE (tie)
Sweet Land - Elizabeth Reaser
Somethig New - Sanaa Lathan

BEST FOREIGN FILM
Water
Deepa Mehta

BEST MUSIC
Dreamgirls

ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD
For a film most passionately opposes violence against women
Sisters In Law
Florence Ayisi and Kim Longinotto

JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD
For best expressing the woman of color experience in America
Been Rich All My Life
Heather MacDonald

KAREN MORLEY AWARD
For best exemplifying a woman's place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity
Sweet Land - Elizabeth Reaser
Room - Cyndi Williams

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Barbara Kopple

ACTING AND ACTIVISM
Sharon Stone

BEST DOCUMENTARIES
In Recognition Of Women’s Excellence In The Documentary Category,
In Light Of Their General Exclusion From Mainstream Filmmaking:

ABOVE AND BEYOND:
The Ground Truth - Patricia Foulkrod
The War Tapes - Deborah Scranton

GROUNDBREAKER
Jesus Camp - Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady

COURAGE IN FILMMAKING
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up And Sing - Barbara Kopple
The Color Of Olives - Carolina Rivas

BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES
Ellen Page
Hard Candy

MOST OFFENSIVE MALE CHARACTERS
Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat
Jason Statham - Crank

WFCC TOP TEN HALL OF SHAME
Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction
Loverboy
Sorry, Haters
Turistas
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Shadowboxer
Venus
The Quiet
Heading South
Mini's First Time

BEST ANIMATED FEMALES
Happy Feet - Brittany Murphy and Nicole Kidman

BEST FAMILY FILMS (Non-animated)
Lassie
Nanny McPhee
Miss Potter

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.