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.^[1]

Winners

2000s

Year	Winner and nominees	Director(s) and/or Producer(s)
2006	Pan's Labyrinth	Guillermo del Toro
	The Departed	Martin Scorsese
	Dreamgirls	Bill Condon
	The Queen	Stephen Frears
	Volver	Pedro Almodóvar
2007	No Country for Old Men	Joel & Ethan Coen, Scott Rudin
	Atonement	Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster
	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Kilik
	Into the Wild	Art Linson, Sean Penn, Bill Pohlad
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	Christian Colson
	Happy-Go-Lucky	Simon Channing Williams
	Milk	Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks
2009	The Hurt Locker	Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro
	An Education	Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey
	Precious	Lee Daniels, Tom Heller, Gary Magness, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Tyler Perry, Oprah Winfrey
	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
	Black Swan	Scott Franklin, Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Brian Oliver
	Inception	Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas
	The King's Speech	Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
	Winter's Bone	Alix Madigan, Anne Rosellini
2011	The Artist	Thomas Langmann
	The Descendants	Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
	Hugo	Johnny Depp, Tim Headington, Graham King, Martin Scorsese
	Melancholia	Meta Louise Foldager Sørensen, Louise Vesth
	Midnight in Paris	Letty Aronson, Jaume Roures, Stephen Tenenbaum
2012	Zero Dark Thirty	Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Megan Ellison
	Argo	Ben Affleck, George Clooney, Grant Heslov
	Lincoln	Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg
2013	12 Years a Slave	Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Arnon Milchan, Brad Pitt, Bill Pohlad
	American Hustle	Megan Ellison, Charles Roven, Richard Suckle
	Gravity	Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman
	Her	Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, Vincent Landay
	Inside Llewyn Davis	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Scott Rudin
	Nebraska	Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa
2014	Boyhood	Richard Linklater, Jonathan Sehring, John Sloss, Cathleen Sutherland
	Birdman	Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole
	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson, Steven Rales, Scott Rudin
	Only Lovers Left Alive	Reinhard Brundig, Jeremy Thomas
	Selma	Christian Colson, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Oprah Winfrey
2015	Spotlight
	Carol
	Mad Max: Fury Road
	The Martian
	Room
2016	Moonlight
	Arrival
	Hell or High Water
	La La Land
	Manchester by the Sea