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The Woman Film Critics Circle Awards

post #1 of 49
12/22/08 at 2:16pm
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http://www.cinemablend.com/new.php?id=11246

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The Women Film Critics Circle Awards 2008

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 woman’s 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: Mary Olive Smith

ABOVE AND BEYOND:
Wings Of Defeat: Risa Morimoto

COURAGE IN FILMMAKING:
Traces Of The Trade: Katrina Browne

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
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post #2 of 49
12/22/08 at 2:20pm
Why is this in gossip?
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post #3 of 49
12/22/08 at 2:25pm
Thread Starter 
I didn't think it'd get much discussion and that since it isn't considered one of the "big" awards it didn't really matter.
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post #4 of 49
12/22/08 at 2:27pm
That's retarded. Why not put it in sports in that case?
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post #5 of 49
12/22/08 at 2:27pm
Still doesn't mean this is gossip. Further, I can see this being taken as a slant against women (especially since it was placed in the gossip forum).

Where is Zooey? She'd be all over this one.
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post #6 of 49
12/22/08 at 2:29pm
Where is The Dark Knight I am OUTRAGED
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post #7 of 49
12/22/08 at 2:30pm
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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
Is this serious?
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post #8 of 49
12/22/08 at 2:36pm
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I apologize for posting in the wrong area. This topic can easily be moved to the right forum. Either a moderator can move it or I can repost it.
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post #9 of 49
12/22/08 at 2:58pm
well if you replace every COURAGE award with the word "COUGAR" then this might actually fit the gossip section.
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post #10 of 49
12/22/08 at 3:16pm
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Originally Posted by HBarr View Post
Still doesn't mean this is gossip. Further, I can see this being taken as a slant against women (especially since it was placed in the gossip forum).

Where is Zooey? She'd be all over this one.
I'm certainly offended, but its not worth getting all up in arms about.
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post #11 of 49
12/22/08 at 3:19pm
Feh. Women's lives and opinions are generally believed to be unserious things. I'm used to it.
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post #12 of 49
12/22/08 at 3:22pm
Well, when they reward CHANGELING...
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post #13 of 49
12/22/08 at 3:28pm
Oh, Dre, you're so terribly, terribly funny...

Haven't seen Changeling yet, but, based on reviews, I don't see how it can possibly top Rachel Getting Married (which I have seen and am still recovering from). I have some theories as to why it received their top honor, but I'll have to save them until I, you know, get around to actually seeing the film.
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post #14 of 49
12/22/08 at 3:33pm
Let's face it, systematic and baseless oppression is a good go-to in comedy.
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post #15 of 49
12/22/08 at 3:36pm
Clearly someone didn't get the memo on what WALL-E is really about.
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post #16 of 49
12/22/08 at 3:46pm
Would you like to be the one to break it to them, reg?
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post #17 of 49
12/22/08 at 4:01pm
Why is Paul Rudd on the most offensive male list?
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post #18 of 49
12/22/08 at 4:03pm
Why is there a "Most offensive Male" list?
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post #19 of 49
12/22/08 at 4:10pm
You guys should maybe click the link and find out.

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see the year in film through a pair of feminist eyes.
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post #20 of 49
12/22/08 at 4:13pm
They did see the end of Role Models right? When he sings to and declares his love for his girl after winning her affection back throughout the movie?
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post #21 of 49
12/22/08 at 4:13pm
Did I make the list this year?

Dammit! I need to work on it.
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post #22 of 49
12/22/08 at 4:13pm
I'm assuming it's not just Offensive Male, but in the context of how they treat women.
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post #23 of 49
12/22/08 at 4:37pm
In Brendan's defense, this does look like a bunch of shallow, superficial bullshit.
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post #24 of 49
12/22/08 at 4:47pm
In Brendan's defense, he does just post drive-by news stories and hates women.
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post #25 of 49
12/22/08 at 4:47pm
They may as well call this "chicks on flicks".
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post #26 of 49
12/22/08 at 4:49pm
How was Mewes THAT offensive in Zack and Miri? He even moves in with Miri to help her pay the rent after Seth Rogen books out of there!
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post #27 of 49
12/22/08 at 5:10pm
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Originally Posted by Jakespeare View Post
How was Mewes THAT offensive in Zack and Miri? He even moves in with Miri to help her pay the rent after Seth Rogen books out of there!
I have to admit I find that one and a few others pretty puzzling. A lot of the choices on this list don't hold much weight without some explanation.

It's especially unnerving that in the "most offensive male character" category, the actor is listed.
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post #28 of 49
12/22/08 at 5:37pm
Doesn't Sex & The City get anything?
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post #29 of 49
12/22/08 at 5:55pm
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Originally Posted by BobClark View Post
Doesn't Sex & The City get anything?
In the positive or negative sense?

I'm not sure why offensiveness is reserved specifically for men here. I'd think that female critics would have something to say about movies that portray women in a negative light or that send out weirdly antiquated and dangerous messages about relationships, like Twilight.
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post #30 of 49
12/22/08 at 5:58pm
Sam Rockwell being offensive in Choke? They aren't familar with the book? At all?
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post #31 of 49
12/22/08 at 6:05pm
I think you're giving this group entirely too much credit, Dave. It's clear they aren't using a truly critical eye. They don't even seem to be capable of understanding author's intent. I wonder if they can even distinguish fantasy from reality.
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post #32 of 49
12/22/08 at 6:07pm
Oh look! Adrienne Shelly won the Adrienne Shelly award! What an upset!
ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD: Adrienne Shelly was a promising actress and filmmaker who was brutally strangled in her apartment in 2006 at the age of forty by a construction worker in the building, after she complained about noise. Her killer tried to cover up his crime by hanging her from a shower20rack in her bathroom, to make it look like a suicide. He later confessed that he was having a “bad day.” Shelly, who left behind a baby daughter, had just completed her film Waitress, which she also starred in, and which was honored at Sundance after her death.
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post #33 of 49
12/22/08 at 6:08pm
My mistake, I didn't read that properly.
But I still say these people are idiots.
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post #34 of 49
12/22/08 at 6:10pm
BUT-
The Adrienne Shelly award is given to a movie that opposes violence against women. Did Shelly champion that in her works? Or are they just exploiting her name because she was murdered?
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post #35 of 49
12/22/08 at 6:10pm
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Originally Posted by BobClark View Post
My mistake, I didn't read that properly.
But I still say these people are idiots.
JOKE TOO EASY
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post #36 of 49
12/22/08 at 6:17pm
At least 'The Women' made their top ten hall of shame.
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post #37 of 49
12/22/08 at 6:22pm
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Originally Posted by Dragon Ma View Post
At least 'The Women' made their top ten hall of shame.
Good point. The hall of shame does call out some films for having those negative stereotypes I mentioned above - but I still wonder why there are only "offensive male characters."
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post #38 of 49
12/22/08 at 6:30pm
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Originally Posted by DaveB View Post
Good point. The hall of shame does call out some films for having those negative stereotypes I mentioned above - but I still wonder why there are only "offensive male characters."
Because we suck, that's why.
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post #39 of 49
12/22/08 at 6:31pm
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Originally Posted by DaveB View Post
Good point. The hall of shame does call out some films for having those negative stereotypes I mentioned above - but I still wonder why there are only "offensive male characters."
Obviously there were no offensive female characters. I thought you were smart DaveB.
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post #40 of 49
12/22/08 at 7:26pm
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Originally Posted by BobClark View Post
BUT-
The Adrienne Shelly award is given to a movie that opposes violence against women. Did Shelly champion that in her works? Or are they just exploiting her name because she was murdered?
One of WAITRESS' subplots dealt with Keri Russell stuck in a marriage with a needy, abusive husband. But I'm sure it's mostly because of what you mentioned.
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post #41 of 49
12/22/08 at 8:03pm
Has anyone here seen Frozen River?
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post #42 of 49
12/23/08 at 6:43am
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Originally Posted by Lima Oscar Lima View Post
Because we suck, that's why.
We also have no feelings.
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post #43 of 49
12/23/08 at 1:14pm
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BEST ACTOR
Mickey Rourke: The Wrestler
Why an award for a man? To avoid discrimination outcries? Because of Rourke's fabulous romance novel mane?
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post #44 of 49
12/23/08 at 1:28pm
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Originally Posted by DARKMITE8 View Post
Why an award for a man? To avoid discrimination outcries? Because of Rourke's fabulous romance novel mane?
Did you see how many times he pounded Kim B. in that one movie where he played the heartbreaker before he turned into an alcoholic microwaved Mr. Potato Head with a penchant for Chihuahuas?
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post #45 of 49
12/23/08 at 1:37pm
Most offensive male characters? I guess I can understand that. What really angers me though is that in a year where a Bond film came out he's nowhere to be found. Way to drop the ball, Forster and Craig.
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post #46 of 49
12/23/08 at 8:35pm
They're waiting until next year to give Bond a lifetime achievement for most offensive male character.
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post #47 of 49
12/24/08 at 12:07am
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Originally Posted by Dragon Ma View Post
They're waiting until next year to give Bond a lifetime achievement for most offensive male character.
The term... is "cocksman".
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post #48 of 49
12/24/08 at 3:04pm
I'm waiting for the backlash from these guys:

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post #49 of 49
12/24/08 at 4:44pm
Good point Tim.

But I think this organization would have the drive to pull off something like that:

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