Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Picture
# Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Picture

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

### 2000s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Director(s) and/or Producer(s) |
| - | - | - |
| 2006 | Pan's Labyrinth | Guillermo del Toro |
| 2006 | The Departed | Martin Scorsese |
| 2006 | Dreamgirls | Bill Condon |
| 2006 | The Queen | Stephen Frears |
| 2006 | Volver | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 2007 | No Country for Old Men | Joel & Ethan Coen, Scott Rudin |
| 2007 | Atonement | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster |
| 2007 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Kilik |
| 2007 | Into the Wild | Art Linson, Sean Penn, Bill Pohlad |
| 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | Christian Colson |
| 2008 | Happy-Go-Lucky | Simon Channing Williams |
| 2008 | Milk | Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks |
| 2009 | The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro |
| 2009 | An Education | Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey |
| 2009 | Precious | Lee Daniels, Tom Heller, Gary Magness, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Tyler Perry, Oprah Winfrey |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Jeffrey Clifford, Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Director(s) and/or Producer(s) |
| - | - | - |
| 2010 | The Social Network | Dana Brunetti, Ceán Chaffin, Michael De Luca, Scott Rudin |
| 2010 | Black Swan | Scott Franklin, Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Brian Oliver |
| 2010 | Inception | Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas |
| 2010 | The King's Speech | Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin |
| 2010 | Winter's Bone | Alix Madigan, Anne Rosellini |
| 2011 | The Artist | Thomas Langmann |
| 2011 | The Descendants | Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor |
| 2011 | Hugo | Johnny Depp, Tim Headington, Graham King, Martin Scorsese |
| 2011 | Melancholia | Meta Louise Foldager Sørensen, Louise Vesth |
| 2011 | Midnight in Paris | Letty Aronson, Jaume Roures, Stephen Tenenbaum |
| 2012 | Zero Dark Thirty | Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Megan Ellison |
| 2012 | Argo | Ben Affleck, George Clooney, Grant Heslov |
| 2012 | Lincoln | Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg |
| 2013 | 12 Years a Slave | Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Arnon Milchan, Brad Pitt, Bill Pohlad |
| 2013 | American Hustle | Megan Ellison, Charles Roven, Richard Suckle |
| 2013 | Gravity | Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman |
| 2013 | Her | Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, Vincent Landay |
| 2013 | Inside Llewyn Davis | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Scott Rudin |
| 2013 | Nebraska | Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa |
| 2014 | Boyhood | Richard Linklater, Jonathan Sehring, John Sloss, Cathleen Sutherland |
| 2014 | Birdman | Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole |
| 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson, Steven Rales, Scott Rudin |
| 2014 | Only Lovers Left Alive | Reinhard Brundig, Jeremy Thomas |
| 2014 | Selma | Christian Colson, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Oprah Winfrey |
| 2015 | Spotlight | |
| 2015 | Carol | |
| 2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road | |
| 2015 | The Martian | |
| 2015 | Room | |
| 2016 | Moonlight | |
| 2016 | Arrival | |
| 2016 | Hell or High Water | |
| 2016 | La La Land | |
| 2016 | Manchester by the Sea | |
