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

Winners

2000s

Year Director(s) Film
2007[1][2] Sarah Polley Away from Her
Tamara Jenkins The Savages
Kasi Lemmons Talk to Me
Mira Nair The Namesake
2008[3][4] Courtney Hunt Frozen River
Isabel Coixet Elegy
Kimberly Peirce Stop-Loss
Kelly Reichardt Wendy and Lucy
2009[5][6] Kathryn Bigelow † The Hurt Locker
Jane Campion Bright Star
Lone Scherfig An Education

2010s

Year Director(s) Film
2010[7][8] Debra Granik Winter's Bone
Andrea Arnold Fish Tank
Lisa Cholodenko The Kids Are All Right
Sofia Coppola Somewhere
Nicole Holofcener Please Give
2011[9][10] Lynne Ramsay We Need to Talk About Kevin
Dee Rees Pariah
Vera Farmiga Higher Ground
Kelly Reichardt Meek’s Cutoff
Jennifer Yuh Kung Fu Panda 2
2012[11][12] Kathryn Bigelow Zero Dark Thirty
Andrea Arnold Wuthering Heights
Sarah Polley Take This Waltz
2013[13][14] Nicole Holofcener Enough Said
Lake Bell In a World...
Gabriele Cowperthwaite Blackfish
Jennifer Lee Frozen
Sarah Polley Stories We Tell
2014[15][16] Ava DuVernay Selma
Jennifer Kent The Babadook
Laura Poitras Citizenfour
2015[17][18] Marielle Heller The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Isabel Coixet Learning to Drive
Maya Forbes Infinitely Polar Bear
Sarah Gavron Suffragette
Céline Sciamma Girlhood
2016[19][20] Ava DuVernay 13th
Andrea Arnold American Honey
Rebecca Miller Maggie's Plan
Mira Nair Queen of Katwe
Kelly Reichardt Certain Women
2017[21][22] Greta Gerwig † Lady Bird
Kathryn Bigelow Detroit
Patty Jenkins Wonder Woman
Angelina Jolie First They Killed My Father
Dee Rees Mudbound
Angela Robinson Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
Agnès Varda Faces Places
2018[23] Marielle Heller Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Elizabeth Chomko What They Had
Debra Granik Leave No Trace
Tamara Jenkins Private Life
Karyn Kusama Destroyer
Nadine Labaki Capernaum
Rungano Nyoni I Am Not a Witch
Sally Potter The Party
Lynne Ramsay You Were Never Really Here
Chloé Zhao The Rider
2019[24] Céline Sciamma Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Greta Gerwig Little Women
Marielle Heller A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Lulu Wang The Farewell
Olivia Wilde Booksmart

2020s

Year Director(s) Film
2020[25] Emerald Fennell Promising Young Woman
Eliza Hittman Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Regina King One Night in Miami...
Channing Godfrey Peoples Miss Juneteenth
Kelly Reichardt First Cow
Chloé Zhao Nomadland

See also

References

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