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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[edit]

"†" indicates Academy Award-winning direction.
"‡" indicates Academy Award-nominated direction.

2000s[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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

References[edit]

^ "2007 EDA Awards Nominees Announced – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.
^ "2007 EDA Awards – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.
^ "2008 AWFJ EDA Awards Nominations – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.
^ "2008 EDA Awards Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.
^ "2009 EDA Awards Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.
^ "2009 EDA Awards Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.
^ "2010 EDA Awards Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.
^ "2010 EDA Awards Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.
^ "2011 EDA Awards Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.
^ "2011 EDA Awards Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.
^ "2012 EDA Award Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.
^ "2012 EDA Award Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.
^ "2013 EDA Award Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.
^ "2013 EDA Award Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.
^ "2014 EDA Award Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.
^ "2014 EDA Award Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.
^ "2015 EDA Award Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.
^ "2015 EDA Award Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.
^ "2016 AWFJ EDA Award Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.
^ "2016 AWFJ EDA Award Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.
^ "2017 AWFJ EDA Award Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.
^ "2017 EDA Award Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.
^ "AWFJ 2018 EDA Awards winners announced". FlickFilosopher.com. 2019-01-10. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
^ "AWFJ 2019 EDA Awards winners announced". FlickFilosopher.com. 2020-01-13. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
^ "AWFJ 2020 EDA Awards winners announced". FlickFilosopher.com. 2021-01-05. Retrieved 2021-01-12.

Alliance of Women Film Journalists official website

[1] "2007 EDA Awards Nominees Announced – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.

[2] "2007 EDA Awards – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.

[3] "2008 AWFJ EDA Awards Nominations – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.

[4] "2008 EDA Awards Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.

[5] "2009 EDA Awards Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.

[6] "2009 EDA Awards Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.

[7] "2010 EDA Awards Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.

[8] "2010 EDA Awards Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.

[9] "2011 EDA Awards Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.

[10] "2011 EDA Awards Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.

[11] "2012 EDA Award Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.

[12] "2012 EDA Award Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.

[13] "2013 EDA Award Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.

[14] "2013 EDA Award Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.

[15] "2014 EDA Award Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.

[16] "2014 EDA Award Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.

[17] "2015 EDA Award Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.

[18] "2015 EDA Award Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.

[19] "2016 AWFJ EDA Award Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.

[20] "2016 AWFJ EDA Award Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.

[21] "2017 AWFJ EDA Award Nominees – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.

[22] "2017 EDA Award Winners – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2021-01-12.

[23] "AWFJ 2018 EDA Awards winners announced". FlickFilosopher.com. 2019-01-10. Retrieved 2021-01-12.

[24] "AWFJ 2019 EDA Awards winners announced". FlickFilosopher.com. 2020-01-13. Retrieved 2021-01-12.

[25] "AWFJ 2020 EDA Awards winners announced". FlickFilosopher.com. 2021-01-05. Retrieved 2021-01-12.

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American film critic associations
National	Critics Choice Association National Board of Review National Society of Film Critics African-American Film Critics Association Hollywood Creative Alliance
Northeast	Boston Society of Film Critics New York Film Critics Circle New York Film Critics Online Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association
Midwest	Chicago Film Critics Association Detroit Film Critics Society Kansas City Film Critics Circle St. Louis Film Critics Association
South	Austin Film Critics Association Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Florida Film Critics Circle Georgia Film Critics Association Houston Film Critics Society
West	Los Angeles Film Critics Association San Diego Film Critics Society San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Seattle Film Critics Society

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Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
Current awards	Best Picture Best Director Best Actor Best Actress Best Woman Director Best Woman Screenwriter Best Animated Film