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Women Film Critics Circle - 2009 WFCC Awards

Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC)
WFCC Awards (6th)
Nominations: December 6, 2009
Awards: December 9, 2009

Below are the nominations & winners for the 6th Annual WFCC Awards.

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Best Movie About Women
"American Violet" (Samuel Goldwyn Company)
"Everlasting Moments" (IFC Films) Final Cut Productions Aps
WINNER "Coco Before Chanel (Coco Avant Chanel)" (Sony Pictures Classics)
WINNER "My One and Only" (Freestyle Releasing LLC) Raygun Productions, George Hamilton Productions, Merv Griffin Entertainment

Best Movie by a Woman
"Amreeka" (National Geographic) Cherien Dabis
"Bright Star" (Apparition) Jane Campion
WINNER "Julie & Julia" (Columbia Pictures) Nora Ephron
"Sugar" (Sony Pictures Classics) Anna Boden

Best Woman Storyteller (Screenwriting Award)
"Amreeka" (National Geographic) Cherien Dabis
WINNER "Sunshine Cleaning" (Overture Films) Megan Holley
"The Private Lives of Pippa Lee" (Icon Film Distribution Ltd., Screen Media Films) Rebecca Miller
"Rage" Sally Potter

Best Actress
Nicole Beharie in "American Violet" (Samuel Goldwyn Company)
WINNER Abbie Cornish in "Bright Star" (Apparition)
Nisreen Faour in "Amreeka" (National Geographic)
Renée Zellweger in "My One and Only" (Freestyle Releasing LLC)

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges in "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight)
WINNER Ben Foster in "The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Pictures)
Jake Gyllenhaal in "Brothers" (Lionsgate Films)
Kevin Spacey in "Shrink" (Roadside Attractions)

Best Young Actress
WINNER Gabourey Sidibe in "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" (Lionsgate Films)
Elle Fanning in "Phoebe in Wonderland" (ThinkFilm)
Carey Mulligan in "An Education" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Ryan Simpkins in "Gardens of the Night"

Best Comedic Actress
Ellen Page in "Whip It" (Fox Searchlight)
WINNER Meryl Streep in "Julie & Julia" (Columbia Pictures)
Charlyne Yi in "Paper Heart" (Overture Films)
Renée Zellweger in "My One and Only" (Freestyle Releasing LLC)

Best Foreign Film by or About Women
"The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex)" (Summit Entertainment) A Constantin Film Production, Germany
"Everlasting Moments" (IFC Films) Final Cut Productions Aps, Sweden
"Lemon Tree" (IFC Films) Israel/Germany/France
WINNER "Seraphine" (Diaphana Films, Music Box)

Best Female Images in a Movie
"American Violet" (Samuel Goldwyn Company)
"Amreeka" (National Geographic)
"The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex)" (Summit Entertainment) A Constantin Film Production
"Inglourious Basterds" (Weinstein Co.) A Band Apart, Zehnte Babelsberg
"Lemon Tree" (IFC Films)
"The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Pictures)
"My Sister's Keeper" (Warner Bros.) Mark Johnson, Scott L. Goldman, Curmudgeon
"Sweet Crude"

Best Theatrically Unreleased Movie
WINNER "Grey Gardens"

Best Equality of the Sexes
"Amelia" (Fox Searchlight) Fox Searchlight, Avalon Pictures
"The Golden Boys" (Roadside Attractions)
WINNER "Julie & Julia" (Columbia Pictures) Amy Robinson Productions, Laurence Mark Productions, Easy There Tiger
"Paper Heart" (Overture Films) Paper Heart

Best Animated Females
WINNER "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney) Anika Noni Rose as Tiana

Best Family Film
WINNER "Up" (Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney) Pixar Animation Studios

Lifetime Achievement Award
WINNER Gertrude Berg

Acting and Activism
WINNER Emma Thompson - For her work on and off screen against sex trafficking

Adrienne Shelly Award
"Gardens of the Night"
"Off Jackson Avenue"
WINNER "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" (Lionsgate Films) Smokewood Entertainment Group
"The Lovely Bones" (DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Pictures) WingNut Films

Josephine Baker Award
WINNER "American Violet" (Samuel Goldwyn Company)
"Amreeka" (National Geographic)
"Good Hair" (Roadside Attractions)
"Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" (Lionsgate Films) Smokewood Entertainment Group

Karen Morley Award
"The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex)" (Summit Entertainment) A Constantin Film Production
WINNER "An Education" (Sony Pictures Classics) BBC
"Lemon Tree" (IFC Films)
"My One and Only" (Freestyle Releasing LLC) Raygun Productions, George Hamilton Productions, Merv Griffin Entertainment

Courage in Acting Award
WINNER Isabella Rossellini in "Green Porno"

Invisible Woman Award
Patricia Clarkson in "Phoebe in Wonderland" (ThinkFilm)
Kerry Fox in "Bright Star" (Apparition)
Samantha Morton in "The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Pictures)
WINNER Olivia Williams in "An Education" (Sony Pictures Classics)

Best Documentary: Groundbreaker
WINNER "The Beaches of Agnès (Les Plages d'Agnès)" Agnès Varda

Best Documentary: Above and Beyond
WINNER "American Casino" Leslie Cockburn

Best Documentary: Courage in Filmmaking
WINNER "Tattooed Under Fire" Nancy Schiesari

Worst Full Frontal Male Nudity
WINNER "Observe and Report" (Warner Bros.) De Line Pictures

Top Ten Hall of Shame
"Antichrist" (IFC Films)
"Deadgirl"
"Downloading Nancy" (Strand Releasing) Tule River Films
"Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" (Warner Bros.)
"Pirate Radio" (Focus Features) Working Title
"Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" (Lionsgate Films) Smokewood Entertainment Group
"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" (Summit Entertainment) Summit Entertainment, Temple Hill
"Up in the Air" (Paramount Pictures) Montecito Picture Company
Judd Apatow

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