The Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Actor is an annual Best Actor award given by the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. The award is often referred to as an EDA as a tribute to AWFJ founder Jennifer Merin's mother, actress Eda Reiss Merin. EDA is also an acronym for Excellent Dynamic Activism.[1]
| Year | Actor | Character | Film |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Daniel Day-Lewis † | Daniel Plainview | There Will Be Blood |
| Johnny Depp ‡ | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | ||
| Tommy Lee Jones ‡ | Hank Deerfield | In the Valley of Elah | |
| Viggo Mortensen ‡ | Nikolai Luzhin | Eastern Promises | |
| 2008 | Sean Penn † | Harvey Milk | Milk |
| Richard Jenkins ‡ | Walter Vale | The Visitor | |
| Mickey Rourke ‡ | Randy "The Ram" Robinson | The Wrestler | |
| 2009 | Jeff Bridges † | Otis "Bad" Blake | Crazy Heart |
| George Clooney ‡ | Ryan Bingham | Up in the Air | |
| Jeremy Renner ‡ | Sergeant First Class William James | The Hurt Locker |