Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Picture

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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

YearWinner and nomineesDirector(s) and/or Producer(s)
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

2010s

YearWinner and nomineesDirector(s) and/or Producer(s)
2010 The Social Network Dana Brunetti, Ceán Chaffin, Michael De Luca, Scott Rudin
Black Swan Scott Franklin, Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Brian Oliver
Inception Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas
The King's Speech Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
Winter's Bone Alix Madigan, Anne Rosellini
2011 The Artist Thomas Langmann
The Descendants Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
Hugo Johnny Depp, Tim Headington, Graham King, Martin Scorsese
Melancholia Meta Louise Foldager Sørensen, Louise Vesth
Midnight in Paris Letty Aronson, Jaume Roures, Stephen Tenenbaum
2012 Zero Dark Thirty Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Megan Ellison
Argo Ben Affleck, George Clooney, Grant Heslov
Lincoln Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg
2013 12 Years a Slave Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Arnon Milchan, Brad Pitt, Bill Pohlad
American Hustle Megan Ellison, Charles Roven, Richard Suckle
Gravity Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman
Her Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, Vincent Landay
Inside Llewyn Davis Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Scott Rudin
Nebraska Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa
2014 Boyhood Richard Linklater, Jonathan Sehring, John Sloss, Cathleen Sutherland
Birdman Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole
The Grand Budapest Hotel Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson, Steven Rales, Scott Rudin
Only Lovers Left Alive Reinhard Brundig, Jeremy Thomas
Selma Christian Colson, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Oprah Winfrey
2015 Spotlight
Carol
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
Room
2016 Moonlight
Arrival
Hell or High Water
La La Land
Manchester by the Sea

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References

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