By Jana Monji
The Women Film Critics Circle announced that Celine Song won two awards: Best Movie by a Woman and Best Woman Storyteller for her directorial debut, Past Lives.
For the Best Movie by a Woman Award, Song beat Emerald Fennell and her murder and class clash film Saltburn, Justine Triets death investigation film Anatomy of a Fall and Ava DuVernay’s biographical film Origin. Saltburn was the runner-up.
For the Best Woman Storyteller Screenwriting Award, Song beat Kelly Fremon Craig’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, DuVernay’s Origin and Fennell’s Saltburn. Craig’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret was runner up.
Past Lives had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival (21 January 2023) and was released in the US theatrically on 2 June 2023.
It has also received eight nominations from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, and three nominations for the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards (Best Picture, Best Actress for Greta Lee and Best Original Screenplay), five nominations for the Astra Film and Creative Arts Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay and Best First Feature) and five nominations for the Golden Globes (Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Picture – Non-English Language, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama). It was named one of the Top 10 Films of the Year by the American Film Institute (7 December 2023).
The Asta Film and Creative Arts Awards is scheduled for 6 January 2024. The Golden Globe Awards ceremony is on 7 January 2024.
The Women Film Critics Circle is an association of 75 women film critics and scholars from around the US and internationally who are involved in print, newswire, radio, online and TV broadcast media. Formed in 2004 , the WFCC was the first women critics organization in the US.
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