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

2000s YearDirector(s)Film2007 Sarah Polley Away from HerTamara Jenkins The SavagesKasi Lemmons Talk to MeMira Nair The Namesake2008Courtney Hunt Frozen RiverIsabel Coixet ElegyKimberly Peirce Stop-LossKelly Reichardt Wendy and Lucy2009Kathryn Bigelow † The Hurt LockerJane Campion Bright StarLone Scherfig An Education

2010s YearDirector(s)Film2010Debra Granik Winter's BoneAndrea Arnold Fish TankLisa Cholodenko The Kids Are All RightSofia Coppola Somewhere Nicole Holofcener Please Give2011Lynne Ramsay We Need to Talk About KevinDee Rees PariahVera Farmiga Higher GroundKelly Reichardt Meek’s CutoffJennifer Yuh Kung Fu Panda 22012Kathryn Bigelow Zero Dark ThirtyAndrea Arnold Wuthering HeightsSarah Polley Take This Waltz2013Nicole Holofcener Enough SaidLake Bell In a World...Gabriele Cowperthwaite BlackfishJennifer Lee FrozenSarah Polley Stories We Tell2014Ava DuVernay SelmaJennifer Kent The BabadookLaura Poitras Citizenfour2015Marielle Heller The Diary of a Teenage GirlIsabel Coixet Learning to DriveMaya Forbes Infinitely Polar BearSarah Gavron SuffragetteCéline Sciamma Girlhood2016Ava DuVernay 13thAndrea Arnold American HoneyRebecca Miller Maggie's PlanMira Nair Queen of KatweKelly Reichardt Certain Women2017Greta Gerwig ‡ Lady BirdKathryn Bigelow DetroitPatty Jenkins Wonder WomanAngelina Jolie First They Killed My Father Dee Rees Mudbound Angela Robinson Professor Marston and the Wonder Women Agnès Varda Faces Places2018Marielle Heller Can You Ever Forgive Me? Elizabeth Chomko What They Had Debra Granik Leave No TraceTamara Jenkins Private Life Karyn Kusama Destroyer Nadine Labaki Capernaum Rungano Nyoni I Am Not a Witch Sally Potter The PartyLynne Ramsay You Were Never Really HereChloé Zhao The Rider2019Céline 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

YearDirector(s)Film2020Emerald Fennell ‡ Promising Young WomanEliza Hittman Never Rarely Sometimes AlwaysRegina King One Night in Miami...Channing Godfrey Peoples Miss JuneteenthKelly Reichardt First CowChloé Zhao † Nomadland

See also

List of media awards honoring women

References

Alliance of Women Film Journalists official website