‘The Substance’ Wins Best Feature At Fourth Annual Girls On Film Awards
Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance took the award for Best Feature at the annual Girls On Film Awards while Emilia Pérez and Hard Truths star Marianne Jean-Baptiste took awards for Best Ensemble and Best Actress respectively.
The fourth edition of the awards, which were held at London’s Curzon Bloomsbury on Sunday, celebrated exceptional achievements by women and people of marginalized genders in the film space. Hosted by Girls On Film co-founders Anna Smith and Hedda Lornie Archbold, the awards put a spotlight on women-led filmmaking with a particular focus on diversity, inclusion and representation.
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Fargeat, who is nominated for Best Director at the Academy Awards this year, was in attendance to collect her award and she told the audience that The Substance “was meant for me to mirror what women have to face in their everyday life by society and it’s not nice, it’s not subtle and it’s not delicate.”
Shiori Ito’s Black Box Diaries won Best Documentary and the Activist Impact Award while Mike Leigh picked up the Ally Award, an award given to a male ally in the film industry who has shown a commitment to the representation of women.
“In today’s challenging world, it’s more important than ever for diverse women to support each other,” said Smith and Lornie Archbold. “This year’s nominations reflect the spirit of sisterhood and the power of film to inspire, inform and create community. These awards honor the strength of storytelling in fostering diversity, equity and inclusion.”
The full awards ceremony will be available as a special episode on the hit podcast Girls On Film.
Here’s the full list of the winners and nominees:
BEST FEATURE FILM
The Substance – winner
All We Imagine as Light
Blink Twice
Emilia Pérez
La Chimera
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Black Box Diaries – winner
Copa 71
Dahomey
Four Daughters
Witches
BEST PERFORMANCE IN A LEADING ROLE
Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) – winner
Cynthia Erivo (Wicked)
Demi Moore (The Substance)
Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez)
Mikey Madison (Anora)
Naomi Ackie (Blink Twice)
BEST PERFORMANCE IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson) – winner
Ariana Grande (Wicked)
Emily Watson (Small Things Like These)
Lesley Manville (Queer)
Michele Austin (Hard Truths)
Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez)
FEMALE FRIENDSHIP ON SCREEN
All We Imagine as Light – winner
Chuck Chuck Baby
The Last Showgirl
My Old Ass
Wicked
ENSEMBLE CAST
Emilia Pérez – winner
All We Imagine as Light
Girls Will Be Girls
Hoard
Wicked Little Letters
THE GIRLS ON FILM ALLY AWARD SPONSORED BY IMDb
Mike Leigh (Hard Truths) – winner
Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez)
Jon M. Chu (Wicked)
Pedro Almodóvar (The Room Next Door)
Sean Baker (Anora)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY SPONSORED BY CREWHQ
Hélène Louvart AFC (La Chimera) – winner
Alice Brooks ASC (Wicked)
Maria von Hausswolff DFF (Janet Planet)
Polly Morgan ASC BSC (Back to Black)
Tasha Back (In Camera)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Judy Becker (The Brutalist) – winner
Emmanuelle Duplay (Emilia Pérez)
Gemma Jackson (Lee)
Jagna Dobesz (The Girl with the Needle)
Suzie Davies (Conclave/Hard Truths)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Linda Muir (Nosferatu) – winner
Emmanuelle Youchnovski (The Substance)
Jacqueline Durran (Blitz)
Jocelyn Pierce (Anora)
Rebecca Gore (Timestalker)
BEST COMPOSER
Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear (Moana 2) – winner
Andrea Datzman (Inside Out 2)
Hildur Guðnadóttir (Joker: Folie à Deux)
Isobel Waller-Bridge (Wicked Little Letters)
Lucrecia Dalt (On Becoming a Guinea Fowl)
BEST PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN
Wicked (Universal) – winner
Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
Inside Out 2 (Disney)
The Substance (MUBI)
Timestalker (Vertigo)
ACTIVIST IMPACT AWARD
Shiori Ito (Black Box Diaries) – winner
LFF Critics Support Fund
MilkTea
TAPE Collective
Jeanie Finlay (Your Fat Friend)
FEMALE ORGASM ON SCREEN SPONSORED BY INTIMACY ON SET
Nicole Kidman (with Nicole Kidman, and later Harris Dickinson) – Babygirl – winner
Anne Hathaway (with Nicholas Galitzine) – The Idea of You
Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian – Love Lies Bleeding
Geraldine Viswanathan (with Margaret Qualley) – Drive-Away Dolls
Preeti Panigrahi (with Preeti Panigrahi and Kesav Binoy Kiron) – Girls Will Be Girls
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