Women Film
Critics Circle
2008 Awards
BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN
Changeling
BEST MOVIE
BY A WOMAN
Frozen River
BEST STORYTELLER
[Screenwriting Award]
Jennifer Lumet: Rachel Getting Married
BEST ACTRESS:
Melissa Leo: Frozen River
BEST ACTOR
Mickey Rourke: The Wrestler
BEST YOUNG
ACTRESS:
Abigail Breslin: Kit Kittredge and Definitely Maybe
BEST COMEDIC
ACTRESS: *TIE*
Sally Hawkins: Happy-Go-Lucky
Meryl Streep: Mamma Mia!
BEST FOREIGN
FILM
I've Loved You So Long
BEST FEMALE
IMAGES IN A MOVIE:
The Secret Life Of Bees
BEST UNRELEASED
MOVIE:
How The Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer
BEST EQUALITY
OF THE SEXES:
Nothing But The Truth
BEST MUSIC:
Cadillac Records
BEST ANIMATED
FEMALE:
Eve: WALL-E
BEST FAMILY
FILM
WALL-E
LIFETIME
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD:
Meryl Streep
ACTING AND
ACTIVISM:
Natalie
Portman
ADRIENNE
SHELLY AWARD: For a film that most passionately opposes violence
against women:
Changeling
JOSEPHINE
BAKER AWARD: For best expressing the woman of color experience
in America:
Ballast
KAREN MORLEY
AWARD: For best exemplifying a womans place in history
or society, and a courageous search for identity:
Battle In Seattle
COURAGE IN
ACTING:
Deidra Edwards in DisFigured: For redefining conventional standards
of female physical beauty and pride on screen, and promoting positive
images of big bodied women.
BEST DOCUMENTARIES:
GROUNDBREAKER:
A Walk To Beautiful
ABOVE AND
BEYOND:
Wings Of Defeat
COURAGE IN
FILMMAKING:
Traces Of The Trade
MOST OFFENSIVE
MALE CHARACTERS
Aaron Eckhart: Towelhead
Sam Rockwell: Choke,
Larry Bishop: Hell Ride
Paul Rudd, Sean William Scott: Role Models
Jason Mewes: Zack And Miri Make a Porno
TOP TEN HALL
OF SHAME
Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired
House Of The Sleeping Beauties
The Women
The Life Before Her Eyes
The Hottie and the Nottie
Savage Grace
Made Of Honor
The Family That Preys
Hounddog
Zack And Miri Make A Porno