Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Director

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.

Winners

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

2000s

Year	Director(s)	Film
2007	Joel & Ethan Coen†	No Country for Old Men
	Sean Penn	Into the Wild
	Sarah Polley	Away from Her
	Julian Schnabel ‡	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2008	Danny Boyle †	Slumdog Millionaire
	Mike Leigh	Happy-Go-Lucky
	Gus Van Sant ‡	Milk
2009	Kathryn Bigelow †	The Hurt Locker
	Jason Reitman ‡	Up in the Air
	Quentin Tarantino ‡	Inglourious Basterds

2010s

Year	Director(s)	Film
2010	David Fincher ‡	The Social Network
	Darren Aronofsky ‡	Black Swan
	Lisa Cholodenko	The Kids Are All Right
	Debra Granik	Winter's Bone
	Tom Hooper †	The King's Speech
	Christopher Nolan	Inception
2011	Michel Hazanavicius †	The Artist
	Woody Allen ‡	Midnight in Paris
	Terrence Malick ‡	The Tree of Life
	Alexander Payne ‡	The Descendants
	Martin Scorsese ‡	Hugo
2012	Kathryn Bigelow	Zero Dark Thirty
	Ben Affleck	Argo
	Steven Spielberg ‡	Lincoln
2013	Steve McQueen ‡	12 Years a Slave
	Joel & Ethan Coen	Inside Llewyn Davis
	Alfonso Cuarón †	Gravity
	Spike Jonze	Her
	Alexander Payne ‡	Nebraska
	David O. Russell ‡	American Hustle
2014	Richard Linklater ‡	Boyhood
	Wes Anderson ‡	The Grand Budapest Hotel
	Ava DuVernay	Selma
	Alejandro G. Iñárritu †	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
	Jim Jarmusch	Only Lovers Left Alive
2015	Tom McCarthy ‡	Spotlight
	Lenny Abrahamson ‡	Room
	Todd Haynes	Carol
	Alejandro G. Iñárritu †	The Revenant
	George Miller ‡	Mad Max: Fury Road
	Ridley Scott	The Martian
2016	Barry Jenkins ‡	Moonlight
	Damien Chazelle †	La La Land
	Kenneth Lonergan ‡	Manchester by the Sea
	David Mackenzie	Hell or High Water
	Denis Villeneuve ‡	Arrival
2017	Guillermo del Toro †	The Shape of Water
	Greta Gerwig ‡	Lady Bird
	Martin McDonagh	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
	Christopher Nolan ‡	Dunkirk
	Jordan Peele ‡	Get Out
2018	Alfonso Cuarón	Roma
	Debra Granik	Leave No Trace
	Yorgos Lanthimos	The Favourite
	Spike Lee	BlacKkKlansman
	Adam McKay	Vice

References

• Alliance of Women Film Journalists official website