Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Woman Director explained

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Woman Director is an annual 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.

Winners

• "†" indicates Academy Award-winning direction.
• "‡" indicates Academy Award-nominated direction.

2000s

Year	Director(s)	Film
2007^[1] ^[2]	Sarah Polley	Away from Her
		The Savages
		Talk to Me
		The Namesake
2008^[3] ^[4]	Courtney Hunt	Frozen River
		Elegy
		Stop-Loss
		Wendy and Lucy
2009^[5] ^[6]	Kathryn Bigelow †	The Hurt Locker
		Bright Star
		An Education

2010s

Year	Director(s)	Film
2010^[7] ^[8]	Debra Granik	Winter's Bone
		Fish Tank
		The Kids Are All Right
		Somewhere
		Please Give
2011^[9] ^[10]	Lynne Ramsay	We Need to Talk About Kevin
		Pariah
		Higher Ground
		Meek’s Cutoff
		Kung Fu Panda 2
2012^[11] ^[12]	Kathryn Bigelow	Zero Dark Thirty
		Wuthering Heights
	Sarah Polley	Take This Waltz
2013^[13] ^[14]	Nicole Holofcener	Enough Said
		In a World...
		Blackfish
		Frozen
	Sarah Polley	Stories We Tell
2014^[15] ^[16]	Ava DuVernay	Selma
		The Babadook
		Citizenfour
2015^[17] ^[18]	Marielle Heller	The Diary of a Teenage Girl
		Learning to Drive
		Infinitely Polar Bear
		Suffragette
		Girlhood
2016^[19] ^[20]	Ava DuVernay	13th
		American Honey
		Maggie's Plan
		Queen of Katwe
	Kelly Reichardt	Certain Women
2017^[21] ^[22]	Greta Gerwig †	Lady Bird
	Kathryn Bigelow	Detroit
		Wonder Woman
		First They Killed My Father
		Mudbound
		Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
		Faces Places
2018^[23]	Marielle Heller	Can You Ever Forgive Me?
		What They Had
		Leave No Trace
		Private Life
		Destroyer
		Capernaum
		I Am Not a Witch
		The Party
		You Were Never Really Here
		The Rider
2019^[24]	Céline Sciamma	Portrait of a Lady on Fire
		Little Women
	Marielle Heller	A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
	Lulu Wang	The Farewell
	Olivia Wilde	Booksmart

2020s

Year	Director(s)	Film
2020^[25]	Emerald Fennell	Promising Young Woman
	Eliza Hittman	Never Rarely Sometimes Always
	Regina King	One Night in Miami...
		Miss Juneteenth
	Kelly Reichardt	First Cow
		Nomadland

See also

• List of media awards honoring women

References

• Alliance of Women Film Journalists official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2007 EDA Awards Nominees Announced – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS. 2021-01-12. en-US.
2. Web site: 2007 EDA Awards – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS. 2021-01-12. en-US.
3. Web site: 2008 AWFJ EDA Awards Nominations – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS. 2021-01-12. en-US.
4. Web site: 2008 EDA Awards Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS. 2021-01-12. en-US.
5. Web site: 2009 EDA Awards Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS. 2021-01-12. en-US.
6. Web site: 2009 EDA Awards Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS. 2021-01-12. en-US.
7. Web site: 2010 EDA Awards Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS. 2021-01-12. en-US.
8. Web site: 2010 EDA Awards Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS. 2021-01-12. en-US.
9. Web site: 2011 EDA Awards Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS. 2021-01-12. en-US.
10. Web site: 2011 EDA Awards Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS. 2021-01-12. en-US.
11. Web site: 2012 EDA Award Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS. 2021-01-12. en-US.
12. Web site: 2012 EDA Award Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS. 2021-01-12. en-US.
13. Web site: 2013 EDA Award Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS. 2021-01-12. en-US.
14. Web site: 2013 EDA Award Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS. 2021-01-12. en-US.
15. Web site: 2014 EDA Award Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS. 2021-01-12. en-US.
16. Web site: 2014 EDA Award Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS. 2021-01-12. en-US.
17. Web site: 2015 EDA Award Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS. 2021-01-12. en-US.
18. Web site: 2015 EDA Award Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS. 2021-01-12. en-US.
19. Web site: 2016 AWFJ EDA Award Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS. 2021-01-12. en-US.
20. Web site: 2016 AWFJ EDA Award Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS. 2021-01-12. en-US.
21. Web site: 2017 AWFJ EDA Award Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS. 2021-01-12. en-US.
22. Web site: 2017 EDA Award Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS. 2021-01-12. en-US.
23. Web site: 2019-01-10. AWFJ 2018 EDA Awards winners announced. 2021-01-12. FlickFilosopher.com. en-US.
24. Web site: 2020-01-13. AWFJ 2019 EDA Awards winners announced. 2021-01-12. FlickFilosopher.com. en-US.
25. Web site: 2021-01-05. AWFJ 2020 EDA Awards winners announced. 2021-01-12. FlickFilosopher.com. en-US.