Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Woman Screenwriter

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The Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Woman Screenwriter 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.

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2000s

YearScreenwriter(s)Film
2007 Tamara Jenkins The Savages
Diablo Cody Juno
Sarah Polley Away from Her
Adrienne Shelly Waitress
2008 Jenny Lumet Rachel Getting Married
Courtney Hunt Frozen River
Kelly Reichardt Wendy and Lucy
2009 Jane Campion Bright Star
Nora Ephron Julie & Julia
Rebecca Miller The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

2010s

YearScreenwriter(s)Film
2010 Lisa Cholodenko The Kids Are All Right
Andrea Arnold Fish Tank
Sofia Coppola Somewhere
Debra Granik Winter's Bone
Nicole Holofcener Please Give
Laeta Kalogridis Shutter Island
2011 Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo Bridesmaids
Diablo Cody Young Adult
Abi Morgan The Iron Lady
Lynne Ramsay and Rory Kinnear We Need to Talk About Kevin
Dee Rees Pariah
2012 Lucy Alibar (and Benh Zeitlin) Beasts of the Southern Wild
Zoe Kazan Ruby Sparks
Ava DuVernay Middle of Nowhere
Sarah Polley Take This Waltz
2013 Nicole Holofcener Enough Said
Lake Bell In a World...
Julie Delpy Before Midnight
Jennifer Lee Frozen
Sarah Polley Stories We Tell
2014 Gillian Flynn Gone Girl
Jennifer Kent The Babadook
Gillian Robespierre Obvious Child
2015 Emma Donoghue Room
Marielle Heller The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Phyllis Nagy Carol
Amy Schumer Trainwreck
2016 Kelly Reichardt Certain Women
Andrea Arnold American Honey
Rebecca Miller Maggie's Plan
Lorene Scafaria The Meddler
Laura Terruso Hello, My Name Is Doris
2017 Greta Gerwig Lady Bird
Liz Hannah and Josh Singer The Post
Dee Rees and Virgil Williams Mudbound

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