The Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Actor is an annual Best Actor 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.
2000s Year Actor Character Film 2007 Daniel Day-Lewis † Daniel Plainview There Will Be Blood Johnny Depp ‡ Benjamin Barker / Sweeney Todd Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Tommy Lee Jones ‡ Hank Deerfield In the Valley of Elah Viggo Mortensen ‡ Nikolai Luzhin Eastern Promises 2008 Sean Penn † Harvey Milk Milk Richard Jenkins ‡ Walter Vale The Visitor Mickey Rourke ‡ Randy "The Ram" Robinson The Wrestler 2009 Jeff Bridges † Otis "Bad" Blake Crazy Heart George Clooney ‡ Ryan Bingham Up in the Air Jeremy Renner ‡ Sergeant First Class William James The Hurt Locker
2010s Year Actor Character Film 2010 Colin Firth † King George VI The King's Speech Javier Bardem ‡ Uxbal Biutiful Jeff Bridges ‡ Rooster Cogburn True Grit Jesse Eisenberg ‡ Mark Zuckerberg The Social Network James Franco ‡ Aron Ralston 127 Hours 2011 Michael Fassbender Brandon Sullivan Shame George Clooney ‡ Matt King The Descendants Jean Dujardin † George Valentin The Artist Brad Pitt ‡ Billy Beane Moneyball Michael Shannon Curtis LaForche Take Shelter 2012 Daniel Day-Lewis † Abraham Lincoln Lincoln John Hawkes Mark O'Brien The Sessions Joaquin Phoenix ‡ Freddy Quell The Master 2013 Matthew McConaughey † Ron Woodroof Dallas Buyers Club Bruce Dern ‡ Woody Grant Nebraska Chiwetel Ejiofor ‡ Solomon Northup 12 Years a Slave Oscar Isaac Llewyn Davis Inside Llewyn Davis Joaquin Phoenix Theodore Twombly Her Robert Redford Our Man All Is Lost 2014 Michael Keaton ‡ Riggan Thomson Birdman Jake Gyllenhaal Louis "Lou" Bloom Nightcrawler Eddie Redmayne † Stephen Hawking The Theory of Everything 2015 Leonardo DiCaprio † Hugh Glass The Revenant Matt Damon ‡ Mark Watney The Martian Michael Fassbender ‡ Steve Jobs Steve Jobs Eddie Redmayne ‡ Lili Elbe The Danish Girl 2016 Casey Affleck † Lee Chandler Manchester by the Sea Joel Edgerton Richard Loving Loving Ryan Gosling ‡ Sebastian Wilder La La Land Tom Hanks Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger Sully Denzel Washington ‡ Troy Maxson Fences 2017 Gary Oldman † Winston Churchill Darkest Hour Timothée Chalamet ‡ Elio Perlman Call Me by Your Name Daniel Kaluuya ‡ Chris Washington Get Out 2018 Christian Bale Dick Cheney Vice Willem Dafoe Vincent van Gogh At Eternity's Gate Ben Foster Will Leave No Trace Ethan Hawke Pastor Ernst Toller First Reformed Rami Malek Freddie Mercury Bohemian Rhapsody Viggo Mortensen Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga Green Book
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