.Gary Dretzka
.Leonard Klady
.David Poland
.Douglas Pratt
.Ray Pride
.Kristopher Tapley

WOMEN FILM CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNERS

Awards: December 28, 2005

BEST PICTURE BY A WOMAN
Prize Winner Of Defiance, Ohio: Jane Anderson

BEST PICTURE ABOUT WOMEN (tie winners)
In Her Shoes: Curtis Hanson
Nine Lives: Rodrigo Garcia

BEST ACTRESS
Charlize Theron: North Country

BEST ACTOR
David Strathairn: Good Night and Good Luck

BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE: (tie winners)
Paula Parker: Hustle & Flow
Sarah Jessica Parker: The Family Stone

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST:
Pride And Prejudice

BEST FEMALE IMAGE IN A MOVIE
North Country: Charlize Theron, Frances McDormond, Sissy Spacek

BEST FOREIGN FILM
Sequins: Eleonore Faucher

MOST OFFENSIVE MALE CHARACTERS
Nicolas Cage: Lord Of War
Damon Dash: State Property II
Johnny Depp: The Libertine

WFCC HALL OF SHAME
Domino: Tony Scott
Don't Move: Sergio Castellitto
State Property II: Damon Dash

BEST TITLE, IN RECOGNITION OF THE
HOPEFULLY INNER FEMALE IN EVERY MACHO GUY
Cinderella Man

BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES
March Of The Penguins

MOST ANIMATED FEMALE
Helena Bonham Carter, Corpse Bride

BEST DOCUMENTARIES
In Recognition Of Women's Excellence In Documentary Filmmaking, In
Light of their General Exclusion From Mainstream Filmmaking:

ABOVE AND BEYOND:
The Future Of Food: Debra Koons Garcia

GROUNDBREAKER:
McLibel: Fanny Armstrong
Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies Of Wrestling:
Ruth Leitman

COURAGE IN FILMMAKING
Wall: Simone Bitton

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
RUBY DEE

ACTING AND ACTIVISM
Vanessa Redgrave
Lynn Whitfield (Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story).

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.