Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Director
# 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 |
| 2007 | Sean Penn | Into the Wild |
| 2007 | Sarah Polley | Away from Her |
| 2007 | Julian Schnabel ‡ | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly |
| 2008 | Danny Boyle † | Slumdog Millionaire |
| 2008 | Mike Leigh | Happy-Go-Lucky |
| 2008 | Gus Van Sant ‡ | Milk |
| 2009 | Kathryn Bigelow † | The Hurt Locker |
| 2009 | Jason Reitman ‡ | Up in the Air |
| 2009 | Quentin Tarantino ‡ | Inglourious Basterds |

### 2010s

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