Women Film Critics Circle Gives Out Awards for 2025

Here are the winners for 2025 from the Women Film Critic Circles. Hamnet led the way, taking Best Movie by a Woman. The full list is below.

Best Movie About Women

Winner: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Runner Up: Hamnet

Other nominees: Eleanor the Great; Sorry, Baby

Best Movie by a Woman

Winner: Chloé Zhao (Hamnet)
Runner Up: Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby)

Other nominees: 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)
Runner Up: Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby)

Other nominees: 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)
Runner Up: Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You)

Other nominees: Amanda Seyfried (The Testament of Ann Lee), Jennifer Lawrence (Die My Love)

Best Actor

Winner: Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon)
Runner Up: Michael B. Jordan (Sinners)

Other nominees: Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another), Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme)

Best Supporting Actress

Winner: Regina Hall (One Battle After Another)
Runner Up: Andrea Riseborough (Goodbye June)

Other nominees: 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

Other nominees: All That’s Left of You, Belén

Best Documentary by or About Women

Winner: My Mom Jayne
Runner Up: The Perfect Neighbor

Other nominees: Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, The Librarians

Best Equality of the Sexes

Winner: Sinners
Runner Up: The Testament of Ann Lee

Other nominees: Lilly, Tatami

Best Animated Female

Winner: Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters)
Runner Up (tie): Amélie (Little Amélie or the Character of Rain)
Runner Up (tie): Judy Hopps (Zootopia 2)

Other nominee: Scarlet (Scarlet)

Best Screen Couple

Winner: Wunmi Mosaku and Michael B. Jordan (Sinners)
Runner Up: Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal (Hamnet)

Other nominees: Elizabeth Olsen and Miles Teller (Eternity), Laura Dern and Will Arnett (Is This Thing On?)

Best TV Series

Winner: Hacks (Season 4)
Runner Up: Dying for Sex

Other nominees: The Girlfriend, The White Lotus (Season 3)

Adrienne Shelly Award – For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women

Winner: Sorry, Baby
Runner Up: Christy

Other nominees: Companion, Lilly

Josephine Baker Award – For best expressing the woman of color experience in America

Winner: Sinners
Runner Up: Hedda

Other nominees: Rosemead, Wicked: For Good

Karen Morely Award – For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity

Winner: Eleanor the Great
Runner Up (tie): Die My Love
Runner Up (tie): The Testament of Ann Lee

Other nominee: Familiar Touch

Acting and Activism Award

America Ferrera

Lifetime Achievement Award

Diane Keaton