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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]
Year | Winner and nominees | Director(s) and/or Producer(s) |
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2006 | Pan's Labyrinth | Guillermo del Toro |
The Departed | Martin Scorsese | |
Dreamgirls | Bill Condon | |
The Queen | Stephen Frears | |
Volver | Pedro Almodóvar | |
2007 | No Country for Old Men | Joel & Ethan Coen, Scott Rudin |
Atonement | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster | |
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Kilik | |
Into the Wild | Art Linson, Sean Penn, Bill Pohlad | |
2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | Christian Colson |
Happy-Go-Lucky | Simon Channing Williams | |
Milk | Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks | |
2009 | The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro |
An Education | Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey | |
Precious | Lee Daniels, Tom Heller, Gary Magness, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Tyler Perry, Oprah Winfrey | |
Up in the Air | Jeffrey Clifford, Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman | |
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