Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Actor

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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]

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2000s

YearActorCharacterFilm
2007 Daniel Day-Lewis Daniel Plainview There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp Benjamin Barker / Sweeney Todd Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tommy Lee JonesHank Deerfield In the Valley of Elah
Viggo MortensenNikolai Luzhin Eastern Promises
2008 Sean Penn Harvey Milk Milk
Richard JenkinsWalter Vale The Visitor
Mickey RourkeRandy "The Ram" Robinson The Wrestler
2009 Jeff Bridges Otis "Bad" Blake Crazy Heart
George ClooneyRyan Bingham Up in the Air
Jeremy RennerSergeant First Class William James The Hurt Locker

2010s

YearActorCharacterFilm
2010 Colin Firth King George VI The King's Speech
Javier BardemUxbal Biutiful
Jeff Bridges Rooster Cogburn True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg Mark Zuckerberg The Social Network
James Franco Aron Ralston 127 Hours
2011 Michael Fassbender Brandon Sullivan Shame
George ClooneyMatt King The Descendants
Jean DujardinGeorge Valentin The Artist
Brad Pitt Billy Beane Moneyball
Michael Shannon Curtis LaForche Take Shelter
2012 Daniel Day-Lewis Abraham Lincoln Lincoln
John Hawkes Mark O'Brien The Sessions
Joaquin PhoenixFreddy Quell The Master
2013 Matthew McConaughey Ron Woodroof Dallas Buyers Club
Bruce DernWoody Grant Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor Solomon Northup 12 Years a Slave
Oscar Isaac Llewyn Davis Inside Llewyn Davis
Joaquin Phoenix Theodore Twombly Her
Robert Redford Our Man All Is Lost
2014 Michael Keaton Riggan Thomson Birdman
Jake Gyllenhaal Louis "Lou" Bloom Nightcrawler
Eddie Redmayne Stephen Hawking The Theory of Everything
2015 Leonardo DiCaprio Hugh Glass The Revenant
Matt DamonMark Watney The Martian
Michael Fassbender Steve Jobs Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne Lili Elbe The Danish Girl
2016 Casey Affleck Lee Chandler Manchester by the Sea
Joel Edgerton Richard Loving Loving
Ryan GoslingSebastian Wilder La La Land
Tom Hanks Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger Sully
Denzel WashingtonTroy Maxson Fences
2017 Gary Oldman Winston Churchill Darkest Hour
Timothée ChalametElio Perlman Call Me by Your Name
Daniel KaluuyaChris Washington Get Out
2018 Christian Bale Dick Cheney Vice
Willem Dafoe Vincent van Gogh At Eternity's Gate
Ben Foster Will Leave No Trace
Ethan Hawke Pastor Ernst Toller First Reformed
Rami Malek Freddie Mercury Bohemian Rhapsody
Viggo Mortensen Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga Green Book

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References

  1. "EDA Awards". AWFJ. Retrieved 22 December 2022.