Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Director

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The Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Picture 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. [1]

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Winners

2000s

YearDirector(s)Film
2007 Joel & Ethan Coen No Country for Old Men
Sean Penn Into the Wild
Sarah Polley Away from Her
Julian Schnabel The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2008 Danny Boyle Slumdog Millionaire
Mike Leigh Happy-Go-Lucky
Gus Van Sant Milk
2009 Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker
Jason Reitman Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds

2010s

YearDirector(s)Film
2010 David Fincher The Social Network
Darren Aronofsky Black Swan
Lisa Cholodenko The Kids Are All Right
Debra Granik Winter's Bone
Tom Hooper The King's Speech
Christopher Nolan Inception
2011 Michel Hazanavicius The Artist
Woody Allen Midnight in Paris
Terrence Malick The Tree of Life
Alexander Payne The Descendants
Martin Scorsese Hugo
2012 Kathryn Bigelow Zero Dark Thirty
Ben Affleck Argo
Steven Spielberg Lincoln
2013 Steve McQueen 12 Years a Slave
Joel & Ethan Coen Inside Llewyn Davis
Alfonso Cuarón Gravity
Spike Jonze Her
Alexander Payne Nebraska
David O. Russell American Hustle
2014 Richard Linklater Boyhood
Wes Anderson The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ava DuVernay Selma
Alejandro G. Iñárritu Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Jim Jarmusch Only Lovers Left Alive
2015 Tom McCarthy Spotlight
Lenny Abrahamson Room
Todd Haynes Carol
Alejandro G. Iñárritu The Revenant
George Miller Mad Max: Fury Road
Ridley Scott The Martian
2016 Barry Jenkins Moonlight
Damien Chazelle La La Land
Kenneth Lonergan Manchester by the Sea
David Mackenzie Hell or High Water
Denis Villeneuve Arrival
2017 Guillermo del Toro The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig Lady Bird
Martin McDonagh Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Nolan Dunkirk
Jordan Peele Get Out
2018 Alfonso Cuarón Roma
Debra Granik Leave No Trace
Yorgos Lanthimos The Favourite
Spike Lee BlacKkKlansman
Adam McKay Vice

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References

  1. "EDA Awards". AWFJ. Retrieved 9 May 2014.