Lifetime Achivement Award : Emma Thompson « pour son éclectisme dans ses choix de rôles, allant des films d'époque à la fantasy. Et pour avoir joué tous les types de femmes avec des interprétations sauvages et pures »
Acting and Activism Award : Charlize Theron « pour son travail avec The Global Fund, et pour avoir créé le Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project qui éduque les jeunes vis-à-vis du SIDA »
Courage in Filmmaking : Laura Poitras « pour avoir fait découvrir les révélations d'Edward Snowden sur la NSA, et avoir dû fuir en Allemagne à cause de cela. Et pour réaliser actuellement un film documentaire à ce sujet »
Adrienne Shelly Award : Augustine pour un film qui dénonce le plus passionnément la violence faite aux femmes (finaliste : Lovelace)
Josephine Baker Award : Twelve Years a Slave pour le meilleur hommage à une femme de couleur aux États-Unis (finaliste : Go for Sisters)
Karen Morley Award : Winnie (Winnie Mandela) pour le meilleur hommage fait à une femme dans l'histoire ou la société et sa courageuse quête d'identité (finaliste : Wadjda (وجدة)
Courage in Acting : Soko dans Augustine pour une actrice qui incarne des rôles non conventionnels qui redéfinissent radicalement l'image de la femme au cinéma
The Invisible Woman Award : Sandra Bullock dans Gravity pour une actrice dont l'exceptionnelle performance et son impact ont été ignorés
(« Temple de la honte » sur le principe du Hall of Fame)
The Canyons « Women depicted as powerless and manipulative. Plus, the acting is horrid
Spring Breakers « No depth, little plot and a pitiful depiction of today’s college kids. Gratuitous in nothing more than flesh and violence. A grossly and dangerously skewed depiction of young women and their values in today’s America »
Capitaine Phillips (Captain Phillips) « The whole might of the USA coming down on 3 starving Somalis?! Repulsive. When the obscenely beefy SEALS arrived and the audience started to cheer, I felt I was watching a ‘macho’ director brainwash audience members into blindly accepting the worst stereotypes of jingoistic male behavior »
La Vie d'Adèle « I went in knowing almost nothing except general buzz but I hated the sex scenes which were way too long and midway thru I couldn’t wait to flee the theater. Coming out I read how many takes Kechiche required and I was thoroughly repulsed. Who was this for? Then I read the graphic novel and discovered that critical plot points were deleted. Like the fact that Adele’s parents find her in bed with Emma which is why she has to move out — and I was enraged. A three hour movie, and Kechiche is so busy salivating over his actresses that he can’t bother telling a coherent story. Hype for this film makes me nauseous! » ; « It’s so obvious a dude with a fetish directed this, it’s not only unappealing, it’s creepy. His overcompensating hubris isn’t worth the praise this is receiving »
Les Salauds « All of the women in this film are depicted as complicit in their own oppression and exploitation. Though it’s a patriarchal system that they exist within, they refuse to fight for themselves or each other, even when a minor is involved. The indictment then is not of the men but of the women. I found this problematic and disappointing from Denis »
Gravity « The women in this group make meaningful choices each year so they speak for me in these areas, the lone exception being Sandra Bullock’s performance in Gravity. She’s a fine actress, but I found the character to be whiny, cowardly, and full of the wrong stuff – a damsel in distress who needed a man (even if it was just her imagination) to pull her out of danger. I can hardly believe they’d send someone so panicky into space. Give me Sigourney Weaver any day »
Dallas Buyers Club « Shame on "Dallas Buyers Club" for completely ignoring the LGBT as a group who drove the fight against AIDS to the forefront. The only time gays were mentioned was to let Matthew McConaughey’s homophobic redneck character get a laugh at the expense of Jared Leto’s transsexual character. The film made it seem as if the whole AIDS community stood on the shoulders of Ron Woodruff when in fact, groups like Act Up were starting the war for proper testing and more drugs way before Ron entered into the picture. It completely demeaned the backdrop Dallas Buyers Club was utilizing for their own characterizing “hero” agenda. Also the film took an extreme opinion against the AZT drug in favor for a plot line when in fact it was helping some patients. The only saving grace was Jared Leto’s fantastic performance but unfortunately it wasn’t enough »
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