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Website | awfj |
The Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ) is a non-profit organization founded in 2006. It is based in New York City and is dedicated to supporting work by and about women in the film industry. [1] The AWFJ is composed of 84 professional female movie critics, journalists, and feature writers working in print, broadcast, and online media. The British Film Institute describes the AWFJ as an organization that collects articles by its (mainly U.S.-based) members, gives annual awards, and "supports films by and about women". [2]
Best of Awards | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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Female Focus Awards | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Special Mention Awards | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
This section needs to be updated.(December 2024) |
Beginning in 2007, the group annually gives awards to the best (and worst) in film, as voted on by its members. These awards are called EDAs in honor of AWFJ founder Jennifer Merin's mother, actress Eda Reiss Merin. EDA is also an acronym for Excellent Dynamic Activism. [3] These awards have been reported on in recent years by a number of mainstream media sources including Time , USA Today , and Variety , and are also included in The New York Times ' movie reviews awards lists. [4] [5] [6] [7] In 2007, AWFJ released a Top 100 Films List in response to the American Film Institute revision of their 100 Years, 100 Films list. [8] In creating their list, the AWFJ was motivated by the fact that only 4.5 out of 400 films on AFI's ballot were directed by women. [9]
In addition to awards for achievement granted regardless of gender (Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Screenplay Adapted, Best Documentary, Best Animated Film, Best Ensemble Cast, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Film Music or Score, and Best Non-English-Language Film), there are also "EDA Female Focus Awards" (Best Woman Director, Best Woman Screenwriter, Kick Ass Award For Best Female Action Star, Best Animated Female, Best Breakthrough Performance, Best Newcomer, Women's Image Award, Sexist Pig Award, Hanging in There Award for Persistence, Actress Defying Age and Agism, Lifetime Achievement Award, Award for Humanitarian Activism, Female Icon Award, and This Year's Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry) and "EDA Special Mention Awards" (Hall of Shame Award, Actress Most in Need of a New Agent, Movie You Wanted to Love But Just Couldn't, Unforgettable Moment Award, Best Depiction of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction, Most Egregious Age Difference Between Leading Man and Love Interest, Bravest Performance Award, Best Leap from Actress to Director Award, Cultural Crossover Award, Sequel or Remake That Shouldn't Have Been Made Award, and Best of the Fests). [10]
(WON) | Indicates the winner |
(WON) | Indicates the winner |
Year | Category | Nominee | Ref. |
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2007 | Best Woman Director | Sarah Polley – Away from Her (WON) | [11] [12] |
Tamara Jenkins – The Savages | |||
Kasi Lemmons – Talk to Me | |||
Mira Nair – The Namesake | |||
Best Woman Screenwriter | Tamara Jenkins – The Savages (WON) | ||
Diablo Cody – Juno | |||
Sarah Polley – Away from Her | |||
Adrienne Shelly – Waitress | |||
Best Breakthrough Performance | Elliot Page [a] – Juno (WON) | ||
Amy Adams – Enchanted | |||
Amy Ryan – Gone Baby Gone | |||
Keri Russell – Waitress and August Rush | |||
Best Newcomer | Saoirse Ronan – Atonement (WON) | ||
Nikki Blonsky – Hairspray | |||
Tang Wei – Lust, Caution | |||
Luisa Williams – Day Night Day Night | |||
Women's Image Award | Sarah Polley (WON) | ||
Jodie Foster | |||
Laura Linney | |||
Adrienne Shelly | |||
Hanging in There Award for Persistence | Ruby Dee (WON) | ||
Anne Sundberg and Ricki Stern – The Devil Came on Horseback | |||
Actress Defying Age and Ageism | Julie Christie (WON) | ||
Brenda Blethyn | |||
Vanessa Redgrave | |||
Meryl Streep | |||
Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in 2007 | Kathleen Kennedy, Producer – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and Persepolis (WON) | ||
Sarah Polley | |||
Adrienne Shelly | |||
Lifetime Achievement Award | Julie Christie (WON) | ||
Mia Farrow | |||
Vanessa Redgrave | |||
Adrienne Shelly | |||
AWFJ Award for Humanitarian Activism | Angelina Jolie (WON) | ||
Ruby Dee | |||
Mia Farrow | |||
Susan Sarandon | |||
2008 | Best Woman Director | Courtney Hunt – Frozen River (WON) | [13] [14] |
Isabel Coixet – Elegy | |||
Kimberly Peirce – Stop-Loss | |||
Kelly Reichardt – Wendy and Lucy | |||
Best Woman Screenwriter | Jenny Lumet – Rachel Getting Married (WON) | ||
Courtney Hunt – Frozen River | |||
Kelly Reichardt – Wendy and Lucy | |||
Best Breakthrough Performance | Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky (WON) | ||
Rebecca Hall – Vicky Christina Barcelona | |||
Melissa Leo – Frozen River | |||
Best Newcomer | Misty Upham – Frozen River (WON) | ||
Zoe Kazan – Revolutionary Road | |||
David Kross – The Reader | |||
Women's Image Award | Kristin Scott Thomas (WON) | ||
Meryl Streep | |||
Emma Thompson | |||
Hanging in There Award for Persistence | Melissa Leo – Frozen River (WON) | ||
Courtney Hunt | |||
Ellen Kuras | |||
Kristin Scott Thomas | |||
Actress Defying Age and Ageism | Catherine Deneuve – A Christmas Tale (WON) | ||
Meryl Streep – Mamma Mia! | |||
Emma Thompson – Last Chance Harvey | |||
2008 Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry | Sheila Nevins – Producing/Programming at HBO (WON) | ||
Kathleen Kennedy – Producer, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | |||
Kate Winslet – for her performances in The Reader and Revolutionary Road | |||
Lifetime Achievement Award | Catherine Deneuve (WON) | ||
Dame Judi Dench | |||
Meryl Streep | |||
Award for Humanitarian Activism | All of the Women in Pray the Devil Back to Hell (WON) | ||
Angelina Jolie | |||
Courtney Hunt | |||
2009 | Best Woman Director | Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker (WON) | [15] [16] |
Jane Campion – Bright Star | |||
Lone Scherfig – An Education | |||
Best Woman Screenwriter | Jane Campion – Bright Star (WON) | ||
Nora Ephron – Julie & Julia | |||
Rebecca Miller – The Private Lives of Pippa Lee | |||
Best Animated Female | Coraline – Coraline (WON) | ||
Ellie – Up | |||
Mrs. Fox – Fantastic Mr. Fox | |||
Best Breakthrough Performance | Carey Mulligan – An Education (WON) | ||
Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air | |||
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious | |||
Women's Image Award | Kathryn Bigelow (WON) | ||
Jane Campion | |||
Meryl Streep | |||
Perseverance Award | Agnès Varda (WON) | ||
Drew Barrymore | |||
Kathryn Bigelow | |||
Actress Defying Age and Ageism | Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia and It's Complicated (WON) | ||
Sophia Loren | |||
Robin Wright Penn | |||
Michelle Pfeiffer | |||
Sexist Pig Award | Robert Luketic – The Ugly Truth (WON) | ||
Michael Bay – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | |||
Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore – Miss March | |||
This Year's Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry | Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker (WON) | ||
Jane Campion – Bright Star | |||
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia and It's Complicated | |||
Lifetime Achievement Award | Agnès Varda (WON) | ||
Jane Campion | |||
Meryl Streep | |||
Award for Humanitarian Activism | Rebecca Cammisa – Which Way Home (WON) | ||
Mia Farrow | |||
Angelina Jolie | |||
2010 | Best Woman Director | Debra Granik – Winter's Bone (WON) | [17] [18] |
Andrea Arnold – Fish Tank | |||
Lisa Cholodenko – The Kids Are All Right | |||
Sofia Coppola – Somewhere | |||
Nicole Holofcener – Please Give | |||
Best Woman Screenwriter | Lisa Cholodenko – The Kids Are All Right (WON) | ||
Andrea Arnold – Fish Tank | |||
Sofia Coppola – Somewhere | |||
Debra Granik – Winter's Bone | |||
Nicole Holofcener – Please Give | |||
Laeta Kalogridis – Shutter Island | |||
Best Female Action Star | Noomi Rapace – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) (WON) | ||
Angelina Jolie – Salt | |||
Helen Mirren – Red | |||
Chloë Grace Moretz – Kick-Ass | |||
Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit | |||
Best Animated Female | Astrid – How To Train Your Dragon (WON) | ||
Barbie – Toy Story 3 | |||
Jessie – Toy Story 3 | |||
Margo, Edith, and Agnes – Despicable Me | |||
Mother Gothel – Tangled | |||
Rapunzel – Tangled | |||
Best Breakthrough Performance | Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone (WON) | ||
Lena Dunham – Tiny Furniture | |||
Chloë Grace Moretz – Kick-Ass | |||
Noomi Rapace – Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) | |||
Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit | |||
Women's Image Award | Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right (WON) | ||
Sally Hawkins – Made in Dagenham | |||
Helen Mirren – Red | |||
Noomi Rapace – Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2009) | |||
Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit | |||
Perseverance Award | Joan Rivers (WON) | ||
Cher | |||
Lisa Cholodenko | |||
Melissa Leo | |||
Winona Ryder | |||
Actress Defying Age and Ageism | Helen Mirren (WON) | ||
Annette Bening | |||
Patricia Clarkson | |||
Melissa Leo | |||
Julianne Moore | |||
Sexist Pig Award | Mel Gibson (WON) | ||
Michael Bay | |||
Michael Patrick King | |||
Michael Winterbottom | |||
Mark Zuckerberg (the character in The Social Network) | |||
This Year's Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry | Debra Granik – Winter's Bone (WON) | ||
Lisa Cholodenko – The Kids Are All Right | |||
Lena Dunham – Tiny Furniture | |||
Tanya Hamilton – Night Catches Us | |||
Helen Mirren – for opening five movies in the US | |||
Lifetime Achievement Award | Claire Denis (WON) (TIE) | ||
Helen Mirren (WON) (TIE) | |||
Annette Bening | |||
Ruby Dee | |||
Julie Taymor | |||
Award for Humanitarian Activism | Sandra Bullock (WON) (TIE) | ||
Sean Penn (WON) (TIE) | |||
Angelina Jolie | |||
Oprah Winfrey | |||
2011 | Best Woman Director | Lynne Ramsay – We Need to Talk About Kevin (WON) | [19] [20] |
Dee Rees – Pariah | |||
Vera Farmiga – Higher Ground | |||
Kelly Reichardt – Meek's Cutoff | |||
Jennifer Yuh – Kung Fu Panda 2 | |||
Best Woman Screenwriter | Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo – Bridesmaids (WON) | ||
Diablo Cody – Young Adult | |||
Abi Morgan – The Iron Lady | |||
Lynne Ramsay and Rory Kinnear – We Need To Talk About Kevin | |||
Dee Rees – Pariah | |||
Kick Ass Award for Best Female Action Star | Rooney Mara – Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011) (WON) (TIE) | ||
Saoirse Ronan – Hanna (WON) (TIE) | |||
Helen Mirren – The Debt | |||
Paula Patton – Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol | |||
Zoe Saldana – Colombiana | |||
Best Animated Female | Beans – Isla Fisher – Rango (WON) | ||
Juliet – Emily Blunt – Gnomeo & Juliet | |||
Jewel – Anne Hathaway – Rio | |||
Kitty Softpaws – Salma Hayek – Puss in Boots | |||
Master Tigress – Angelina Jolie – Kung Fu Panda 2 | |||
Best Breakthrough Performance | Elizabeth Olsen – Martha Marcy May Marlene (WON) | ||
Jessica Chastain – The Tree of Life | |||
Adepero Oduye – Pariah | |||
Rooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) | |||
Shailene Woodley – The Descendants | |||
Female Icon Award | Glenn Close – Albert Nobbs (WON) | ||
Viola Davis – The Help | |||
Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady | |||
Actress Defying Age and Ageism | Helen Mirren – The Debt (WON) | ||
Glenn Close – Albert Nobbs | |||
Judi Dench – J. Edgar | |||
Vanessa Redgrave – Coriolanus | |||
Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady | |||
This Year's Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry | Jessica Chastain – for performances in four highly acclaimed films (WON) | ||
Thelma Schoonmaker – for editing Hugo | |||
Stacey Snider – for helming DreamWorks | |||
Kristen Wiig – for Bridesmaids | |||
Award for Humanitarian Activism | Angelina Jolie – for UN work and making In the Land of Blood and Honey to raise awareness about genocide (WON) | ||
Sandra Bullock – for tsunami relief | |||
Elaine Hendrix – for Animal Rescue Corps and In Defense of Animals | |||
Elizabeth Taylor – for her work with AIDS | |||
Olivia Wilde – for relief work in Haiti | |||
2012 | Best Woman Director | Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty (WON) | [21] [22] |
Andrea Arnold – Wuthering Heights | |||
Sarah Polley – Take This Waltz | |||
Best Woman Screenwriter | Lucy Alibar (and Benh Zeitlin) – Beasts of the Southern Wild (WON) | ||
Zoe Kazan – Ruby Sparks | |||
Ava DuVernay – Middle of Nowhere | |||
Sarah Polley – Take This Waltz | |||
Kick Ass Award for Best Female Action Star | Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games (WON) | ||
Gina Carano – Haywire | |||
Anne Hathaway – The Dark Knight Rises | |||
Best Animated Female | Brave – Merida (Kelly Macdonald) (WON) | ||
Rise of the Guardians – Tooth (Isla Fisher) | |||
Wreck-It Ralph – Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) | |||
Best Breakthrough Performance | Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild (WON) | ||
Samantha Barks – Les Misérables | |||
Ann Dowd – Compliance | |||
Alicia Vikander – A Royal Affair | |||
Actress Defying Age and Ageism | Judi Dench – Skyfall (WON) | ||
Helen Mirren – Hitchcock | |||
Emmanuelle Riva – Amour | |||
Award for Humanitarian Activism – Female Icon Award | Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty (WON) | ||
Helen Hunt – The Sessions | |||
Judi Dench – Skyfall | |||
This Year's Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry | Women Documentary Filmmakers, including Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady ( Detropia ), Lauren Greenfield ( The Queen of Versailles ), Alison Klayman ( Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry ) and Sarah Burns ( The Central Park Five ). (WON) | ||
Kathryn Bigelow – for Zero Dark Thirty | |||
Jennifer Lawrence – for The Hunger Games and Silver Linings Playbook | |||
2013 | Best Woman Director | Nicole Holofcener – Enough Said (WON) | [23] [24] |
Lake Bell – In a World... | |||
Gabriele Cowperthwaite – Blackfish | |||
Jennifer Lee – Frozen | |||
Sarah Polley – Stories We Tell | |||
Best Woman Screenwriter | Nicole Holofcener – Enough Said (WON) | ||
Lake Bell – In a World... | |||
Julie Delpy – Before Midnight | |||
Jennifer Lee – Frozen | |||
Sarah Polley – Stories We Tell | |||
Kick Ass Award for Best Female Action Star | Sandra Bullock – Gravity (WON) | ||
Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | |||
Chloë Grace Moretz – Kick-Ass 2 | |||
Best Animated Female | Anna (Kristen Bell) – Frozen (WON) | ||
Eep (Emma Stone) – The Croods | |||
Elsa (Idina Menzel) – Frozen | |||
Best Breakthrough Performance | Lupita Nyong'o – 12 Years a Slave (WON) | ||
Brie Larson – Short Term 12 | |||
Shailene Woodley – The Spectacular Now | |||
Actress Defying Age and Ageism | Sandra Bullock – Gravity (WON) | ||
Judi Dench – Philomena | |||
Meryl Streep – August: Osage County | |||
AWFJ Female Icon Award | Angelina Jolie – for continued commitments to humanitarian causes, and for promoting awareness about breast cancer (WON) | ||
Sandra Bullock – for the strong, capable and very positive female image presented in Gravity | |||
Jennifer Lawrence – for American Hustle and Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and for handling her high degree of celebrity extremely well | |||
This Year's Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry | Haifaa Al-Mansour – for challenging the limitations placed on women within her culture (WON) | ||
Cheryl Boone Isaacs – for becoming President of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | |||
Jehane Noujaim – for risking life and limb to document the Egyptian revolution in The Square | |||
2014 | Best Woman Director | Ava DuVernay – Selma (WON) | [25] [26] |
Jennifer Kent – The Babadook | |||
Laura Poitras – Citizenfour | |||
Best Woman Screenwriter | Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl (WON) | ||
Jennifer Kent – The Babadook | |||
Gillian Robespierre – Obvious Child | |||
Best Female Action Star | Emily Blunt – Edge of Tomorrow (WON) | ||
Scarlett Johansson – Lucy | |||
Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 | |||
Best Breakthrough Performance | Gugu Mbatha-Raw – Belle (WON) | ||
Essie Davis – The Babadook | |||
Jenny Slate – Obvious Child | |||
Female Icon Award | Ava DuVernay (WON) (TIE) | ||
Laura Poitras (WON) (TIE) | |||
Angelina Jolie | |||
2015 | Best Woman Director | Marielle Heller – The Diary of a Teenage Girl (WON) | [27] [28] |
Isabel Coixet – Learning to Drive | |||
Maya Forbes – Infinitely Polar Bear | |||
Sarah Gavron – Suffragette | |||
Céline Sciamma – Girlhood | |||
Best Woman Screenwriter | Emma Donoghue – Room (WON) | ||
Marielle Heller – The Diary of a Teenage Girl | |||
Phyllis Nagy – Carol | |||
Amy Schumer – Trainwreck | |||
Best Female Action Star | Charlize Theron – Mad Max: Fury Road (WON) | ||
Emily Blunt – Sicario | |||
Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 | |||
Daisy Ridley – Star Wars: The Force Awakens | |||
Best Breakthrough Performance | Alicia Vikander – Ex Machina, Testament of Youth , and The Danish Girl (WON) | ||
Brie Larson – Room | |||
Bel Powley – The Diary of a Teenage Girl | |||
Daisy Ridley – Star Wars: The Force Awakens | |||
Female Icon of the Year Award | Chantal Akerman – In Memoriam For being a great filmmaker and inspiration. (WON) | ||
Maria Giese – Activist filmmaker who is spearheading the movement for parity for women directors. | |||
Donna Langley – Chair(wo)man, Universal Pictures, who has brought the studio to unprecedented profits. | |||
Jennifer Lawrence – For breaking the silence about discriminatory practices and unequal pay for actresses. | |||
Charlotte Rampling – Because she's Charlotte Rampling and is iconic. | |||
2016 | Best Woman Director | Ava DuVernay – 13th (WON) | [29] [30] |
Andrea Arnold – American Honey | |||
Rebecca Miller – Maggie's Plan | |||
Mira Nair – Queen of Katwe | |||
Kelly Reichardt – Certain Women | |||
Best Woman Screenwriter | Kelly Reichardt – Certain Women (WON) | ||
Andrea Arnold – American Honey | |||
Rebecca Miller – Maggie's Plan | |||
Lorene Scafaria – The Meddler | |||
Laura Terruso – Hello, My Name Is Doris | |||
Best Animated Female | Judy in Zootopia – Ginnifer Goodwin (WON) (TIE) | ||
Moana in Moana – Auliʻi Cravalho (WON) (TIE) | |||
Dory in Finding Dory – Ellen DeGeneres | |||
Best Breakthrough Performance | Ruth Negga – Loving (WON) | ||
Sasha Lane – American Honey | |||
Janelle Monáe – Moonlight and Hidden Figures | |||
Madina Nalwanga – Queen of Katwe | |||
Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry | Ava DuVernay – For 13th and raising awareness about the need for diversity and gender equality in Hollywood. (WON) | ||
Anne Hubbell and Amy Hobby for establishing Tangerine Entertainment's Juice Fund to support female filmmakers. | |||
Mynette Louie – President of Gamechanger Films, which finances narrative films directed by women. | |||
April Reign – for creating and mobilizing the #OscarsSoWhite campaign. | |||
2017 | Best Woman Director | Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird (WON) | [31] [32] |
Kathryn Bigelow – Detroit | |||
Patty Jenkins – Wonder Woman | |||
Angelina Jolie – First They Killed My Father | |||
Dee Rees – Mudbound | |||
Angela Robinson – Professor Marston and the Wonder Women | |||
Agnès Varda – Faces Places | |||
Best Woman Screenwriter | Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird (WON) | ||
Liz Hannah and Josh Singer – The Post | |||
Dee Rees and Virgil Williams – Mudbound | |||
Best Animated Female | Parvana – The Breadwinner – Saara Chaudry (WON) | ||
Marguerite Gachet in Loving Vincent – Saoirse Ronan | |||
Mamá Imelda Rivera in Coco – Alanna Ubach | |||
Best Breakthrough Performance | Brooklynn Prince – The Florida Project (WON) | ||
Florence Pugh – Lady Macbeth | |||
Tiffany Haddish – Girls Trip | |||
Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry | Rose McGowan, Ashley Judd and all who spoke out against sexual harassment (WON) | ||
Greta Gerwig – for Lady Bird | |||
Patty Jenkins – for Wonder Woman | |||
Angelina Jolie – for First They Killed My Father and The Breadwinner | |||
2018 | Best Woman Director | Marielle Heller – Can You Ever Forgive Me? (WON) | [33] [34] |
Elizabeth Chomko – What They Had | |||
Debra Granik – Leave No Trace | |||
Tamara Jenkins – Private Life | |||
Karyn Kusama – Destroyer | |||
Nadine Labaki – Capernaum | |||
Rungano Nyoni – I Am Not a Witch | |||
Sally Potter – The Party | |||
Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here | |||
Chloé Zhao – The Rider | |||
Best Woman Screenwriter | Deborah Davis – The Favourite (WON) (with Tony McNamara) | ||
Diablo Cody – Tully | |||
Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini – Leave No Trace | |||
Nicole Holofcener – Can You Ever Forgive Me?(with Jeff Whitty) | |||
Tamara Jenkins – Private Life | |||
Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here | |||
Audrey Wells – The Hate U Give | |||
Chloé Zhao – The Rider | |||
Best Animated Female | Helen "Elastigirl" Parr in Incredibles 2 – Holly Hunter (WON) | ||
Gwen "Spider-Gwen" Stacy in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Hailee Steinfeld | |||
Meechee in Smallfoot – Zendaya | |||
Tracy Walker in Isle of Dogs – Greta Gerwig | |||
Vanellope von Schweetz in Ralph Breaks the Internet – Sarah Silverman | |||
Best Breakthrough Performance | Thomasin McKenzie – Leave No Trace (WON) | ||
Yalitza Aparicio – Roma | |||
Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade | |||
KiKi Layne – If Beale Street Could Talk | |||
Letitia Wright – Black Panther | |||
Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry | Rachel Morrison for paving the road for women cinematographers with her Oscar nomination for Mudbound and scoring as DP on Black Panther. (WON) | ||
82 women who stood on the Palais des Festivals steps at the Cannes Film Festival to protest gender inequality in festival programming. | |||
Ava DuVernay for hiring women filmmakers for Queen Sugar and other projects. | |||
Megan Ellison for challenging the status quo and producing projects by unique and diverse voices. | |||
Nicole Kidman for a banner year of performances in Destroyer, Boy Erased and Aquaman, and for opening opportunity for women in production. | |||
Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and all the women speaking out in the #MeToo movement. | |||
2019 | Best Woman Director | Céline Sciamma – Portrait of a Lady on Fire (WON) | [35] [36] |
Greta Gerwig – Little Women | |||
Marielle Heller – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | |||
Lulu Wang – The Farewell | |||
Olivia Wilde – Booksmart | |||
Best Woman Screenwriter | Greta Gerwig – Little Women (WON) | ||
Lorene Scafaria – Hustlers | |||
Céline Sciamma – Portrait of a Lady on Fire | |||
Lulu Wang – The Farewell | |||
Olivia Wilde – Booksmart | |||
Best Animated Female | Bo Peep (Annie Potts) – Toy Story 4 (WON) | ||
Anna (Kristen Bell) – Frozen II | |||
Elsa (Idina Menzel) – Frozen II | |||
Yi (Chloe Bennet) – Abominable | |||
Best Woman's Breakthrough Performance | Florence Pugh – Midsommar , Little Women, Fighting with My Family (WON) | ||
Awkwafina – The Farewell | |||
Jodie Turner-Smith – Queen & Slim | |||
Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry | Ava DuVernay for creating ARRAY and championing women in film (WON) | ||
Claire Mathon (cinematographer) — Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Atlantics | |||
Anna Serner (Swedish Film Institute) for tireless work on the 5050x2020 initiative | |||
2020 | Best Woman Director | Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman (WON) | [37] |
Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always | |||
Regina King – One Night in Miami... | |||
Channing Godfrey Peoples – Miss Juneteenth | |||
Kelly Reichardt – First Cow | |||
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland | |||
Best Woman Screenwriter | Radha Blank – The Forty-Year-Old Version (WON) | ||
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman | |||
Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always | |||
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland | |||
Best Animated Female | 22 (Tina Fey) – Soul (WON) | ||
Mebh Óg MacTíre (Eva Whittaker) – Wolfwalkers | |||
Robyn Goodfellowe (Honor Kneafsey) – Wolfwalkers | |||
Best Woman's Breakthrough Performance | Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (WON) | ||
Radha Blank – The Forty-Year-Old Version | |||
Helena Zengel – News of the World | |||
Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry | all indie female writers and directors who normalized abortion as a vital element in the cultural conversation in films such as Saint Frances , Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Sister of the Groom , Once Upon a River, The Glorias , and others (WON) | ||
Emerald Fennell for creating Promising Young Woman | |||
all female heads of film festivals who successfully transitioned from live to online events to sustain festival culture through the pandemic | |||
Sophia Loren for a brilliant comeback at age 86 in The Life Ahead | |||
2021 | Best Woman Director | Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog (WON) | [38] |
Julia Ducournau – Titane | |||
Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Lost Daughter | |||
Rebecca Hall – Passing | |||
Sian Heder – CODA | |||
Best Woman Screenwriter | Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog (WON) | ||
Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Lost Daughter | |||
Rebecca Hall – Passing | |||
Sian Heder – CODA | |||
Maria Schrader – I'm Your Man | |||
Best Animated Female | Mirabel, Stephanie Beatriz in Encanto (WON) | ||
Katie, Abbi Jacobson in The Mitchells vs. the Machines | |||
Raya, Kelly Marie Tran in Raya and the Last Dragon | |||
Giulia, Emma Berman in Luca | |||
Sisu, Awkwafina in Raya and the Last Dragon | |||
Best Woman's Breakthrough Performance | Emilia Jones in CODA (WON) | ||
Ariana DeBose in West Side Story | |||
Alana Haim in Licorice Pizza | |||
Renate Reinsve in The Worst Person in the World | |||
Rachel Zegler in West Side Story | |||
Outstanding Achievement by A Woman in The Film Industry | Maya Cade for establishing the Black Film Archive (WON) | ||
Victoria Alonso for her achievements at Marvel Studios | |||
Anna Serner for 20 years of female forward work at the Swedish Film Institute | |||
2022 | Best Woman Director | Gina Prince-Bythewood – The Woman King (WON) | [39] [40] |
Chinonye Chukwu – Till | |||
Marie Kreutzer – Corsage | |||
Sarah Polley – Women Talking | |||
Maria Schrader – She Said | |||
Charlotte Wells – Aftersun | |||
Best Woman Screenwriter | Sarah Polley and Miriam Toews – Women Talking (WON) | ||
Alice Birch – The Wonder asn Mothering Sunday | |||
Rebecca Lenkiewicz – She Said | |||
Domee Shi – Turning Red | |||
Dana Stevens and Maria Bello – The Woman King | |||
Charlotte Wells – Aftersun | |||
Best Animated Female | Connie, Isabella Rossellini – Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (WON) | ||
Izzy, Keke Palmer – Lightyear | |||
Kat, Lyric Ross – Wendell & Wild | |||
"Kitty Softpaws", Salma Hayek – Puss in Boots: Last Wish | |||
Mei, Rosalie Chiang – Turning Red | |||
Ming, Sandra Oh – Turning Red | |||
Best Woman's Breakthrough Performance | Danielle Deadwyler – Till (WON) | ||
Frankie Corio – Aftersun | |||
Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All at Once | |||
Thuso Mbedu – The Woman King | |||
Amber Midthunder – Prey | |||
Sadie Sink – The Whale | |||
Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry | Viola Davis – For getting The Woman King made as her lifetime passion project and creating opportunities for other women creatives (WON) | ||
Nina Menkes and Maria Giese – For making Brainwashed, analyzing and illustrating the misogynistic representation of women in Hollywood movies | |||
Domee Shi – For being the first woman to direct a film for Pixar and for becoming Pixar's VP of Creative | |||
Jacqueline Stewart – For ongoing advocacy of the underrepresented and becoming president of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures | |||
Michelle Yeoh – Lifetime Achievement Award | |||
2023 | Best Woman Director | Justine Triet – Anatomy of a Fall (WON) | [41] [42] |
Ava DuVernay – Origin | |||
Emerald Fennell – Saltburn | |||
Greta Gerwig – Barbie | |||
Celine Song – Past Lives | |||
Best Woman Screenwriter | Celine Song – Past Lives (WON) | ||
Samy Burch – May December | |||
Emerald Fennell – Saltburn | |||
Greta Gerwig (with Noah Baumbach) – Barbie | |||
Justine Triet (with Arthur Harari) – Anatomy of a Fall | |||
Best Animated Female | Gwen "Spider-Gwen" Stacy, Hailee Steinfeld in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | ||
Asha, Ariana DeBose – Wish | |||
April O'Neil, Ayo Edebiri – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem | |||
Ember Lumen, Leah Lewis – Elemental | |||
Nimona, Chloë Grace Moretz – Nimona | |||
Best Woman's Breakthrough Performance | Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon (WON) | ||
Abby Ryder Fortson – Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. | |||
Greta Lee – Past Lives | |||
Da'Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers | |||
Cailee Spaeny – Priscilla | |||
Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry | Fran Drescher – for leading SAG-AFTRA through the actors' strike and standing strong for an equitable contract. (WON) | ||
Ava DuVernay – For creating a new financing model, for consistently supporting women in film and for focusing her work on social justice. | |||
Greta Gerwig – For all that is Barbie . | |||
Lily Gladstone – For championing Native American stories, advocating for diversity and authenticity, and for starring in two exceptional films in 2023. | |||
Margot Robbie – For producing and starring in Barbie , and for continued support for women in film via her LuckyChap production company. | |||
2024 | Best Woman Director | Andrea Arnold – Bird | [43] |
Gia Coppola – The Last Showgirl | |||
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance (WON/TIE) | |||
Payal Kapadia – All We Imagine as Light (WON/TIE) | |||
Megan Park – My Old Ass | |||
Alice Rohrwacher – La chimera | |||
Best Female Screenwriter | Andrea Arnold – Bird | ||
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance (WON/TIE) | |||
Payal Kapadia – All We Imagine as Light (WON/TIE) | |||
Megan Park – My Old Ass | |||
Alice Rohrwacher – La chimera | |||
Erica Tremblay & Miciana Alice – Fancy Dance | |||
Best Animated/Voiced Performance | Ayo Edebiri – Inside Out 2 | ||
Maya Hawke – Inside Out 2 | |||
Lupita Nyong'o – The Wild Robot (WON) | |||
Amy Poehler – Inside Out 2 | |||
Sarah Snook – Memoir of a Snail | |||
Jacki Weaver – Memoir of a Snail | |||
Best Women's Breakthrough Performance | Nykiya Adams – Bird | ||
Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez | |||
Mikey Madison – Anora (WON) | |||
Katy O'Brian – Love Lies Bleeding | |||
June Squibb – Thelma | |||
Maisy Stella – My Old Ass | |||
Best Stunt Performance | Nikki Berwick (stunt coordinator) – Gladiator II | ||
Alex Jay (for Zendaya) – Dune: Part Two | |||
Hayle Wright (for Anya Taylor-Joy) – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga | |||
Katy O'Brian – Love Lies Bleeding | |||
Cailee Spaeny – Alien: Romulus | |||
June Squibb – Thelma (WON) | |||
(WON) | Indicates the winner |
Year | Category | Nominee | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
2007 | AWFJ Hall of Shame Award | Norbit (WON) | [11] [12] |
Beowulf | |||
Black Snake Moan | |||
The Nanny Diaries | |||
Wild Hogs | |||
Actress Most in Need of a New Agent | Hilary Swank (WON) | ||
Halle Berry | |||
Nicole Kidman | |||
Catherine Zeta-Jones | |||
Movie You Wanted to Love But Just Couldn't | Margot at the Wedding (WON) | ||
Evening | |||
Georgia Rule | |||
Reservation Road | |||
Best of the Fests | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (WON) | ||
Black Sheep (special mention) | |||
Four Sheets to the Wind (special mention) | |||
Grbavica: Land of My Dreams (special mention) | |||
Never Forever (special mention) | |||
Red Road (special mention) | |||
Secret Sunshine (special mention) | |||
Angel | |||
The Cake Eaters | |||
Darius Goes West: The Roll of his Life | |||
Day Zero | |||
Out of Time | |||
Sweet Mud | |||
Unforgettable Moment Award | Eastern Promises – Viggo Mortensen's full frontal (WON) | ||
The Host – Tracking shot of monsters appearing | |||
Golden Door – Emigrants swimming in milk | |||
Into the Wild – Emile Hirsch's dying scene | |||
Best Depiction of Nudity or Sexuality | Eastern Promises – Viggo Mortensen (WON) | ||
Atonement – Keira Knightley | |||
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead – Marisa Tomei/Philip Seymour Hoffman | |||
Lust, Caution – Tang Wei | |||
Best Seduction | Atonement – Keira Knightley and James McAvoy (WON) (TIE) | ||
The Namesake – Tabu and Irrfan Khan (WON) (TIE) | |||
Juno – Elliot Page [a] and Michael Cera | |||
Waitress – Keri Russell and Nathan Fillion | |||
Sequel That Shouldn't Have Been Made Award | Shrek the Third (WON) | ||
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | |||
Rush Hour 3 | |||
Spider-Man 3 | |||
Cultural Crossover Award | Persepolis (WON) | ||
The Namesake | |||
Killer of Sheep | |||
Bravest Performance Award | Julie Christe – Away from Her (WON) | ||
Kate Dickie – Red Road | |||
Jodie Foster – The Brave One | |||
Best Leap from Actress to Director Award | Sarah Polley (WON) | ||
Kasi Lemmons | |||
Julie Delpy | |||
Adrienne Shelly | |||
Most Egregious Age Difference between Leading Man and Love Interest Award | Robin Wright Penn (b. 1966) and Anthony Hopkins (b. 1937) – Beowulf (WON) | ||
Téa Leoni (b. 1966) and Ben Kingsley (b. 1943) – You Kill Me | |||
2008 | AWFJ Hall of Shame Award | 27 Dresses (WON) | [13] [14] |
Choke | |||
The House Bunny | |||
My Blueberry Nights | |||
Actress Most in Need of a New Agent | Kate Hudson (WON) | ||
Diane Keaton | |||
Nicole Kidman | |||
Movie You Wanted to Love But Just Couldn't | Mamma Mia! (WON) (TIE) | ||
The Women (WON) (TIE) | |||
Mad Money | |||
Best of the Fests | Hunger (WON) | ||
Cook County | |||
The Hurt Locker | |||
Moving Midway | |||
Unforgettable Moment Award | The Dark Knight – Joker's first scene (WON) (TIE) | ||
Slumdog Millionaire – Young Jamal jumps into the poop (WON) (TIE) | |||
Doubt – Viola Davis' scenes | |||
Slumdog Millionaire – Eye gouging | |||
Standard Operating Procedure – Sabrina Harman interview | |||
The Wrestler – Mickey Rourke getting stapled | |||
Best Depiction of Nudity or Sexuality | Elegy (WON) (TIE) | ||
The Reader (WON) (TIE) | |||
The Wrestler | |||
Best Seduction | Vicky Cristina Barcelona (WON) | ||
Happy-Go-Lucky | |||
The Visitor | |||
Sequel That Shouldn't Have Been Made Award | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (WON) (TIE) | ||
Saw V (WON) (TIE) | |||
Step Up 2: The Streets | |||
Remake That Shouldn't Have Been Made Award | The Women (WON) | ||
Death Race | |||
The Incredible Hulk | |||
Cultural Crossover Award | Slumdog Millionaire (WON) | ||
The Reader | |||
Waltz with Bashir | |||
Bravest Performance Award | Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler (WON) | ||
Melissa Leo – Frozen River | |||
Kate Winslet – The Reader | |||
Best Leap from Actress to Director Award | Helen Hunt – Then She Found Me (WON) | ||
Greta Gerwig – Nights and Weekends | |||
Amy Redford – The Guitar | |||
Most Egregious Age Difference between Leading Man and Love Interest Award | The Wackness – Ben Kingsley (b. 1943) and Mary-Kate Olsen (b. 1986) (WON) | ||
88 Minutes – Al Pacino (b. 1940) and Alicia Witt (b. 1975) | |||
Righteous Kill – Robert De Niro (b. 1943) and Carla Gugino (b. 1971) | |||
2009 | AWFJ Hall of Shame Award | Robert Luketic – The Ugly Truth (WON) | [15] [16] |
Lars von Trier – Antichrist | |||
Jody Hill – Observe and Report | |||
Actress Most in Need of a New Agent | Hilary Swank (WON) | ||
Megan Fox | |||
Katherine Heigl | |||
Movie You Wanted to Love But Just Couldn't | Amelia (WON) | ||
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | |||
Precious | |||
Unforgettable Moment Award | Inglourious Basterds – Shoshanna (Mélanie Laurent) burns down the theater. (WON) | ||
Precious – Mary (Mo'Nique) admits the truth about abuse. | |||
Zombieland – Surprise celebrity cameo (no spoilers here) | |||
Best Depiction of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction | An Education – Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard (WON) (TIE) | ||
It's Complicated – Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin (WON) (TIE) | |||
Bright Star – Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw | |||
Sequel That Shouldn't Have Been Made Award | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (WON) | ||
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | |||
Terminator Salvation | |||
Cultural Crossover Award | District 9 (WON) | ||
Amreeka | |||
The Stoning of Soraya M. | |||
Bravest Performance Award | Mo'Nique – Precious (WON) | ||
Charlotte Gainsbourg – Antichrist | |||
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious | |||
Most Egregious Age Difference between Leading Man and Love Interest Award | Larry David and Evan Rachel Wood – Whatever Works (40 years) (WON) | ||
Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart (28 years) | |||
Kevin James and Jayma Mays – Paul Blart: Mall Cop (14 years) | |||
2010 | AWFJ Hall of Shame Award | Sex and the City 2 , Michael Patrick King, Sarah Jessica Parker, cast and crew (WON) | [17] [18] |
Jackass 3D | |||
Jonah Hex | |||
Mel Gibson | |||
Valentine's Day and Garry Marshall | |||
Actress Most in Need of a New Agent | Jennifer Aniston (WON) | ||
Halle Berry | |||
Katherine Heigl | |||
Sarah Jessica Parker | |||
Reese Witherspoon | |||
Movie You Wanted to Love But Just Couldn't | For Colored Girls (WON) | ||
Black Swan | |||
Conviction | |||
Inception | |||
The Social Network | |||
Waiting for "Superman" | |||
Unforgettable Moment Award | Black Swan – Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) sprouts black wings and final dance performance. (WON) | ||
127 Hours – Aron Ralston (James Franco) cuts off his arm. | |||
Inception – Paris folds in on itself. | |||
The Kids Are All Right – Nic (Annette Bening) finds out that Jules (Julianne Moore) is cheating. | |||
Winter's Bone – Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) cuts off her dead father's hands with a chain saw. | |||
Best Depiction of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction | The Kids Are All Right (WON) | ||
Black Swan | |||
Blue Valentine | |||
I Am Love | |||
Sequel That Shouldn't Have Been Made Award | Sex and the City 2 (WON) | ||
Iron Man 2 | |||
Little Fockers | |||
Tron: Legacy | |||
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | |||
The Remake That Shouldn't Have Been Made Award | Clash of the Titans (WON) | ||
The A-Team | |||
Death at a Funeral | |||
Let Me In | |||
Robin Hood | |||
Cultural Crossover Award | The Kids Are All Right (WON) | ||
Four Lions | |||
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) | |||
Mother | |||
Waste Land | |||
Bravest Performance Award | Natalie Portman – Black Swan (WON) | ||
Annette Bening and Juliane Moore – The Kids Are All Right | |||
James Franco – 127 Hours | |||
Chloë Grace Moretz – Kick-Ass | |||
Paprika Steen – Applause | |||
Most Egregious Age Difference between Leading Man and Love Interest Award | Solitary Man – Michael Douglas and Imogen Poots (45 years) (WON) | ||
Barney's Version – Paul Giamatti and Rosamund Pike (12 years) | |||
The Company Men – Tommy Lee Jones and Maria Bello (21 years) | |||
Machete – Danny Trejo and Jessica Alba (37 years) | |||
You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger – Anthony Hopkins and Lucy Punch (40 years) | |||
2011 | AWFJ Hall of Shame Award | The Hollywood Reporter for failing to invite any women to join the Directors Roundtable (WON) | [19] [20] |
I Melt with You | |||
Jack and Jill | |||
Something Borrowed | |||
Sucker Punch | |||
Actress Most in Need of a New Agent | All actresses in New Year's Eve (WON) | ||
Jennifer Aniston | |||
Kate Hudson | |||
Sarah Jessica Parker | |||
Amanda Seyfried | |||
Movie You Wanted to Love But Just Couldn't | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (WON) | ||
Drive | |||
The Future | |||
Sucker Punch | |||
Young Adult | |||
Unforgettable Moment Award | The Artist – The sound of glass clinking on the table (WON) | ||
Drive – The elevator scene | |||
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) – Lisbeth's revenge | |||
The Help – The pie scene | |||
Shame – Carey Mulligan singing New York | |||
Best Depiction of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction | Melancholia – Justine in the moonlight (WON) (TIE) | ||
Shame – Opening sequence on the subway train (WON) (TIE) | |||
A Dangerous Method – Carl Jung spanks Sabina Speilrein | |||
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) – Lisbeth mounts Mikael | |||
Shame – Brandon with co-worker | |||
Sequel or Remake That Shouldn't Have Been Made Award | The Hangover Part II (WON) | ||
Arthur | |||
Cars 2 | |||
Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil | |||
Transformers: Dark of the Moon | |||
Most Egregious Age Difference | Albert Nobbs – Glenn Close (64) and Mia Wasikowska (22) (WON) (TIE) | ||
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 – Bella (18) and Edward (over 100) (WON) (TIE) | |||
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) – Daniel Craig (43) and Rooney Mara (26) | |||
Midnight in Paris – Owen Wilson (43) and Léa Seydoux (26) | |||
Sleeping Beauty – Emily Browning (23) and Man 1 (Peter Carroll, 68), Man 2 (Chris Haywood, 63), and Man 3 (Hugh Keays-Byrne, 64) | |||
2012 | AWFJ Hall of Shame Award | Sean Anders – That's My Boy (WON) | [21] [22] |
Sacha Baron Cohen – The Dictator | |||
Gabriele Muccino – Playing for Keeps | |||
Actress Most in Need of a New Agent | Katherine Heigl – One for the Money (WON) (TIE) | ||
Reese Witherspoon – This Means War (WON) (TIE) | |||
Nicole Kidman – The Paperboy | |||
Movie You Wanted to Love But Just Couldn't | Anna Karenina (WON) | ||
Cloud Atlas | |||
Les Misérables | |||
Unforgettable Moment Award | Les Misérables – Anne Hathaway as Fantine sings I Dreamed a Dream (WON) (TIE) | ||
Zero Dark Thirty – Jessica Chastain as Maya says, I'm the mother… (WON) (TIE) | |||
Argo – The runway chase. | |||
Flight – Crash sequence | |||
Rust and Bone – Marion Cotillard as Stephanie dances in the wheelchair. | |||
Best Depiction of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction | The Sessions – Helen Hunt and John Hawkes (WON) | ||
Anna Karenina – Keira Knightley and Aaron Taylor-Johnson | |||
Rust and Bone – Marion Cotilliard | |||
Sequel or Remake That Shouldn't Have Been Made Award | Red Dawn (WON) (TIE) | ||
Total Recall (WON) (TIE) | |||
The Amazing Spider-Man | |||
Most Egregious Age Difference Between The Leading Man and The Love Interest Award | Flight – Denzel Washington (b. 1954) and Kelly Reilly (b. 1977)... and Nadine Velazquez (b. 1978) (WON) | ||
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World – Steve Carell (b. 1962) and Keira Knightley (b. 1985) | |||
Silver Linings Playbook – Bradley Cooper (b. 1975) and Jennifer Lawrence (b. 1990) | |||
2013 | AWFJ Hall of Shame Award | The Counselor – Ridley Scott (WON) | [23] [24] |
Grown Ups 2 – Dennis Dugan | |||
Movie 43 – Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Cundieff, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, Peter Farrelly, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, James Gunn, Brett Ratner, Jonathan van Tulleken, and Bob Odenkirk | |||
Actress Most in Need of a New Agent | Cameron Diaz – for The Counselor (WON) | ||
Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine – for Spring Breakers | |||
Melissa McCarthy – for Identity Thief and The Heat | |||
Movie You Wanted to Love But Just Couldn't | The Counselor (WON) | ||
All Is Lost | |||
Blue Is the Warmest Color | |||
Unforgettable Moment Award | 12 Years a Slave – Solomon Northup hanging (WON) | ||
12 Years a Slave – Patsy pleads for soap | |||
Gravity – George Clooney reappears | |||
Her – Phone sex sequences | |||
Nebraska – That's not my air compressor | |||
Best Depiction of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction | Her – Scarlett Johansson and Joaquin Phoenix for their digital lovemaking (WON) | ||
Blue Is The Warmest Color – Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos | |||
The Spectacular Now – Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller | |||
Sequel or Remake That Shouldn't Have Been Made Award | Carrie (WON) (TIE) | ||
Oz the Great and Powerful (WON) (TIE) | |||
Grown Ups 2 | |||
The Hangover Part III | |||
Kick-Ass 2 | |||
Most Egregious Age Difference between the Leading Man and the Love Interest Award | Last Vegas – Michael Douglas (b. 1944) and Bre Blair (b. 1980) (WON) | ||
August: Osage County – Dermot Mulroney (b. 1963) and Abigail Breslin (b. 1996) | |||
The Invisible Woman – Ralph Fiennes (b. 1962) and Felicity Jones (b. 1983) | |||
The Lifeguard – Kristen Bell (b. 1980) and David Lambert (b. 1993) (unusually, a pairing with an older woman) | |||
Oblivion – Tom Cruise (b. 1962) and Andrea Riseborough (b. 1981)/Olga Kurylenko (b. 1979) | |||
2014 | Actress Most in Need of a New Agent | Cameron Diaz – Annie , The Other Woman , Sex Tape (WON) | [25] [26] |
Jennifer Aniston – Horrible Bosses 2 | |||
Melissa McCarthy – Tammy | |||
Movie You Wanted to Love But Just Couldn't | Inherent Vice (WON) | ||
Foxcatcher | |||
Unbroken | |||
Best Depiction of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction | Under the Skin – Scarlett Johansson (WON) | ||
Gone Girl – Rosamund Pike, Ben Affleck, and Neil Patrick Harris | |||
Only Lovers Left Alive – Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston | |||
Actress Defying Age and Ageism | Tilda Swinton (WON) | ||
Julianne Moore | |||
Meryl Streep | |||
Most Egregious Age Difference between the Leading Man and the Love Interest | Magic in the Moonlight – Colin Firth (b. 1960) and Emma Stone (b. 1988) (WON) | ||
Draft Day – Kevin Costner (b. 1955) and Jennifer Garner (b. 1972) | |||
Edge of Tomorrow – Tom Cruise (b. 1962) and Emily Blunt (b. 1983) | |||
2015 | Best Depiction of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction | Anomalisa (WON) (TIE) | [27] [28] |
Carol (WON) (TIE) | |||
The Diary of a Teenage Girl | |||
Actress Defying Age and Ageism | Charlotte Rampling (WON) (TIE) | ||
Lily Tomlin (WON) (TIE) | |||
Helen Mirren | |||
Most Egregious Age Difference between the Lead and the Love Interest Award | Danny Collins – Al Pacino (b. 1940) and Katarina Čas (b. 1976) (WON) | ||
Freeheld – Julianne Moore (b. 1960) and Elliot Page [a] (b. 1987) | |||
Irrational Man – Joaquin Phoenix (b. 1974) and Emma Stone (b. 1988) | |||
Spectre – Daniel Craig (b. 1968) and Léa Seydoux (b. 1985) | |||
Actress Most in Need of a New Agent | Emma Stone – Aloha (WON) | ||
Bryce Dallas Howard – Jurassic World | |||
Dakota Johnson – Fifty Shades of Grey | |||
Movie You Wanted to Love But Just Couldn't | The Danish Girl (WON) | ||
Aloha | |||
The Hateful Eight | |||
Sisters | |||
2016 | Actress Defying Age and Ageism | Annette Bening – 20th Century Women (WON) (TIE) | [29] [30] |
Isabelle Huppert – Elle and Things to Come (WON) (TIE) | |||
Viola Davis – Fences | |||
Sally Field – Hello, My Name Is Doris | |||
Helen Mirren – Eye in the Sky | |||
Most Egregious Age Difference between the Lead and the Love Interest Award | Rules Don't Apply – Warren Beatty (b. 1937) and Lily Collins (b. 1989) (WON) | ||
Dirty Grandpa – Robert De Niro (b. 1943) and Aubrey Plaza (b. 1984) | |||
Independence Day: Resurgence – Charlotte Gainsbourg (b. 1971) and Jeff Goldblum (b. 1952) | |||
Mechanic: Resurrection – Jason Statham (b. 1967) and Jessica Alba (b. 1981) | |||
Actress Most in Need of a New Agent | Jennifer Aniston – Mother's Day and Office Christmas Party (WON) | ||
Melissa McCarthy – The Boss and Ghostbusters | |||
Margot Robbie – Suicide Squad and The Legend of Tarzan | |||
Julia Roberts – Mother's Day | |||
Shailene Woodley – The Divergent Series | |||
Bravest Performance Award | Isabelle Huppert – Elle (WON) | ||
Jessica Chastain – Miss Sloane | |||
Naomie Harris – Moonlight | |||
Sasha Lane – American Honey | |||
Ruth Negga – Loving | |||
Sequel or Remake That Shouldn't Have Been Made Award | Ben-Hur (WON) | ||
Ghostbusters | |||
Independence Day: Resurgence | |||
The Magnificent Seven | |||
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 | |||
AWFJ Hall of Shame Award | Sharon Maguire and Renée Zellweger – Bridget Jones's Baby (WON) | ||
Nicolas Winding Refn and Elle Fanning – The Neon Demon | |||
David Ayer and Margot Robbie – Suicide Squad | |||
David E. Talbert and Mo'Nique – Almost Christmas | |||
2017 | Actress Defying Age and Ageism | ||
Agnès Varda – Faces, Places (WON) | [31] [32] | ||
Annette Bening – Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool | |||
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | |||
Most Egregious Age Difference between the Lead and the Love Interest Award | |||
I Love You, Daddy – Chloe Grace Moretz (b. 1997) and John Malkovich (b. 1953) (WON) | |||
mother! – Jennifer Lawrence (b. 1990) and Javier Bardem (b. 1969) | |||
The Mummy and American Made – Tom Cruise (b. 1962) with Annabelle Wallis (b. 1984) and Sarah Wright (b. 1983), respectively | |||
Actress Most in Need of a New Agent | |||
Kate Winslet for Wonder Wheel and The Mountain Between Us (WON) | |||
Dakota Johnson for 50 Shades Darker | |||
Jennifer Lawrence for mother! | |||
Bravest Performance Award | |||
Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water (WON) (TIE) | |||
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya (WON) (TIE) | |||
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | |||
Sequel or Remake That Shouldn't Have Been Made Award | |||
The Mummy (WON) | |||
Baywatch | |||
Murder on the Orient Express | |||
AWFJ Hall of Shame Award | |||
The Sexual Tormentors – Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Brett Ratner, et al. (WON) | |||
Darren Aronofsky and all associated with mother! | |||
Louis C.K. and all associated with I Love You, Daddy | |||
2018 | Actress Defying Age and Ageism | ||
Viola Davis – Widows (WON) | [33] [34] | ||
Glenn Close – The Wife | |||
Nicole Kidman – Destroyer | |||
Sissy Spacek – The Old Man & the Gun | |||
Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith – Tea With the Dames | |||
Bravest Performance | |||
Olivia Colman – The Favourite (WON) | |||
Toni Collette – Hereditary | |||
Viola Davis – Widows | |||
Nicole Kidman – Destroyer | |||
Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me? | |||
Charlize Theron – Tully | |||
Mary Elizabeth Winstead – All About Nina | |||
Actress Most in Need of a New Agent | |||
Jennifer Lawrence – Red Sparrow (WON) | |||
Anna Faris – Overboard | |||
Jennifer Garner – Peppermint | |||
Dakota Johnson – Fifty Shades Freed | |||
Melissa McCarthy – Life of the Party and The Happytime Murders | |||
Amy Schumer – I Feel Pretty | |||
Most Egregious Age Difference between the Lead and the Love Interest | |||
Mission: Impossible – Fallout – Tom Cruise (b. 1962) and Rebecca Ferguson (b. 1983) (WON) | |||
Mandy – Nicolas Cage (b. 1964) and Andrea Riseborough (b. 1981) | |||
Overboard – Eugenio Derbez (b. 1961) and Anna Faris (b. 1976) | |||
Red Sparrow – Jennifer Lawrence (b. 1990) and Joel Edgerton (b. 1974) | |||
Siberia – Ana Ularu (b. 1985) and Keanu Reeves (b. 1964) | |||
Sequel or Remake That Shouldn't Have Been Made | |||
Overboard (WON) | |||
Death Wish | |||
Fifty Shades Freed | |||
The Predator | |||
Robin Hood | |||
AWFJ Hall of Shame Award | |||
Abusers and alleged abusers – Harvey Weinstein, Les Moonves, Louis C.K., James Franco, Bryan Singer, Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer et al. (WON) | |||
Fifty Shades Freed | |||
The Happytime Murders | |||
Red Sparrow | |||
2019 | Grand Dame Award for Defying Ageism | Zhao Shuzhen – The Farewell (WON) | [35] [36] |
Maggie Smith – Downton Abbey | |||
Helen Mirren – The Good Liar | |||
Most Daring Performance Award | Aisling Franciosi – The Nightingale (WON) | ||
Jennifer Lopez – Hustlers | |||
Lupita Nyong'o – Us | |||
Florence Pugh – Midsommar | |||
Renée Zellweger – Judy | |||
She Deserves a New Agent Award | Anne Hathaway – The Hustle and Serenity (WON) | ||
Diane Keaton and ensemble – Poms | |||
Kristen Stewart – Charlie's Angels and Seberg | |||
Most Egregious Lovers' Age Difference Award | The Public – Emilio Estevez (b. 1962) and Taylor Schilling (b. 1984), 22 years (WON) | ||
Dolemite Is My Name – Eddie Murphy (b. 1961) and Da'Vine Joy Randolph (b. 1986), 25 years | |||
Lucy in the Sky – Jon Hamm (b. 1971) and Zazie Beetz (b. 1991), 20 years | |||
Time Waster Remake or Sequel Award | Charlie's Angels (WON) | ||
Dumbo | |||
The Lion King | |||
Men in Black: International | |||
Dark Phoenix | |||
AWFJ Hall of Shame Award | HFPA for excluding women nominees in major Golden Globe categories (WON) | ||
Louis C.K. comeback tour | |||
The Beach Bum | |||
Harvey Weinstein, more of the same | |||
2020 | Grand Dame Award for Defying Ageism | Sophia Loren – The Life Ahead (WON) | [37] |
Ellen Burstyn – Pieces of a Woman | |||
Tsai Chin – Lucky Grandma | |||
Frances McDormand – Nomadland | |||
Most Daring Performance Award | Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (WON) | ||
Haley Bennett – Swallow | |||
Elisabeth Moss – The Invisible Man | |||
Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman | |||
She Deserves a New Agent Award | Uma Thurman – The War with Grandpa (WON) | ||
Katie Holmes – The Secret: Dare to Dream | |||
Rose Byrne – Like a Boss | |||
Tiffany Haddish – Like a Boss | |||
Most Egregious Lovers' Age Difference Award | Tenet – Elizabeth Debicki (b. 1990) and Kenneth Branagh (b. 1960), 30 years (WON) | ||
The Burnt Orange Heresy – Elizabeth Debicki (b. 1990) and Claes Bang (b. 1967), 23 years | |||
The Devil All the Time – Riley Keough (b. 1989) and Jason Clarke (b. 1969), 20 years | |||
Mank – Amanda Seyfried (b. 1985) and Charles Dance (b. 1946), 39 years; and Seyfried and Gary Oldman (b. 1958), 27 years | |||
Time Waster Remake or Sequel Award | Dolittle (WON) | ||
The Croods: A New Age | |||
Rebecca | |||
AWFJ Hall of Shame Award | Christopher Nolan for insisting that Tenet be screened exclusively in theaters during a pandemic (WON) (TIE) | ||
Dallas Sonnier and Adam Donaghey at Cinestate for sexual harassment, abuse, and coverup (WON) (TIE) | |||
Shia LaBeouf for his ongoing abusive behavior | |||
2021 | Grand Dame Award for Defying Agism | Dame Judi Dench (WON) | [38] |
Rita Moreno | |||
Dame Diana Rigg | |||
Most Egregious Lovers' Age Difference Award | The Many Saints of Newark : Ray Liotta and Michela DeRossi (38 years) | ||
Red Rocket : Simon Rex and Suzanna Son (21 years) | |||
The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard : Salma Hayek and Samuel L. Jackson (17 years) | |||
Nightmare Alley : David Strathairn and Toni Collette (22 years) | |||
Licorice Pizza : Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman (10 years) | |||
No Time to Die : Daniel Craig and Léa Seydoux (17 years) (WON) | |||
She Deserves a New Agent Award | Amy Adams for The Woman in the Window and Dear Evan Hansen | ||
Melissa McCarthy for The Starling (WON) | |||
Chloe Grace Moretz for Tom & Jerry | |||
Most Daring Performance Award | Sandra Bullock – The Unforgivable | ||
Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter | |||
Ruth Negga – Passing | |||
Renate Reinsve – The Worst Person in the World | |||
Agathe Rousselle – Titane (WON) | |||
Time Waster Remake or Sequel Award | Space Jam: A New Legacy (WON) | ||
The Boss Baby: Family Business | |||
Cruella | |||
Ghostbusters: Afterlife | |||
Tom & Jerry | |||
AWFJ Hall of Shame Award | Gina Carano, Nicki Minaj and Letitia Wright for using celeb status for antivax propaganda | ||
Producers, crew and cast of Rust for not following proper safety protocol and causing the tragic death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins (WON) | |||
Warner Bros for contributing to Mel Gibson's resurgence by hiring him to direct Lethal Weapon 5 . | |||
2022 | Grand Dame Award for Defying Agism | Emma Thompson (WON) | [39] [40] |
Viola Davis | |||
Jamie Lee Curtis | |||
Michelle Yeoh | |||
Most Egregious Lovers' Age Difference Award | Crimes of the Future : Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux (27 years) (WON) | ||
Confess, Fletch : Jon Hamm and Lorenza Izzo (17 years) | |||
Deep Water : Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas (16 years) | |||
Eiffel : Romain Duris and Emma Mackey (22 years) | |||
She Deserves a New Agent Award | Ana de Armas for Blonde (WON) | ||
Bryce Dallas Howard for Jurassic World Dominion | |||
Margot Robbie for Babylon | |||
Rebel Wilson for Senior Year | |||
Most Daring Performance | Emma Thompson – Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (WON) | ||
Cate Blanchett – Tár | |||
Viola Davis – The Woman King | |||
Danielle Deadwyler – Till | |||
Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once | |||
Time Waster Remake or Sequel Award | Jurassic World Dominion (WON) | ||
Firestarter | |||
Halloween Ends | |||
Disney's Pinocchio | |||
AWFJ Hall of Shame Award (Women and men are eligible) | Harvey Weinstein for everything and forever. (WON) | ||
Alec Baldwin and the crew of Rust for continuing to deny responsibility for the on set shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The situation is still messy. A wrongful death lawsuit was settled, but the criminal investigation continues. In November, Baldwin sued crew members for giving him the loaded prop gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. News reports say Baldwin also texted Hutchins's husband, Matthew, saying that the gun was never meant to be fired at a particular camera angle. | |||
Blonde and Andrew Dominik | |||
Will Smith for his behavior at the Oscars and in the aftermath | |||
2023 | Grand Dame Award for Defying Agism | Annette Bening – Nyad (WON) | [41] [42] |
Julia Louis-Dreyfus – You Hurt My Feelings | |||
Jodie Foster – Nyad | |||
Helen Mirren – Golda and Fast X | |||
Julianne Moore – May December | |||
Most Egregious Lovers' Age Difference Award | Oppenheimer – Cillian Murphy (47) and Florence Pugh (27) (WON) | ||
Killers of the Flower Moon – Leo DiCaprio (49) and Lily Gladstone (37) | |||
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – Tom Cruise (61) and Hayley Atwell (41) | |||
Poor Things – Mark Ruffalo (56) and Emma Stone (35) | |||
She Deserves a New Agent Award | Candice Bergen, Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton and Mary Steenburgen – Book Club: The Next Chapter (WON/TIE) | ||
Toni Collette – Mafia Mamma (WON/TIE) | |||
Ana de Armas – Ghosted | |||
Nia Vardalos – My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 | |||
Reese Witherspoon – Your Place or Mine | |||
Most Daring Performance | Emma Stone – Poor Things (WON) | ||
Annette Bening – Nyad | |||
Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall | |||
Sandra Hüller – The Zone of Interest | |||
Julianne Moore – May December | |||
Time Waster Remake or Sequel Award | The Exorcist: Believer (WON) | ||
Expend4bles | |||
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes | |||
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny | |||
Magic Mike's Last Dance | |||
AWFJ Hall of Shame Award (Women and men are eligible) | The AMPTP and studio heads for their despicable behavior concerning the WGA and SAG-AFTRA negotiations and strikes. (WON) | ||
Drew Barrymore for resuming her show during the WGA strike, resulting in three writers leaving the show. | |||
Greta Gerwig for crossing WGA and SAG-AFTRA picket lines (she's a member of both and although not an actor in Barbie , she co-wrote it) to promote Barbie, claiming she was just there as a non-striking director. Her co-writer Noah Baumbach respected the picket line. Media gave her a free pass while Black director Justin Simien (not a member of any striking guild) was given flack for attending the Disney premiere of his film Haunted Mansion . Shame on Greta. | |||
Jonathan Majors for domestic violence. | |||
Danny Masterson, sentenced to 30 years to life in prison after having been found guilty of raping two women. | |||
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