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

2000s

YearDirector(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 BigelowThe Hurt Locker
Bright Star
An Education

2010s

YearDirector(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 GerwigLady Bird
Kathryn BigelowDetroit
Wonder Woman
First They Killed My Father
Mudbound
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
Faces Places
2018[23] Marielle HellerCan 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 SciammaPortrait of a Lady on Fire
Little Women
Marielle HellerA Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Lulu WangThe Farewell
Olivia WildeBooksmart

2020s

YearDirector(s)Film
2020[25] Emerald Fennell Promising Young Woman
Eliza HittmanNever Rarely Sometimes Always
Regina KingOne Night in Miami...
Miss Juneteenth
Kelly ReichardtFirst Cow
Nomadland

See also

References

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.