Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Woman Screenwriter

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Woman Screenwriter 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 screenplay.
• "‡" indicates Academy Award-nominated screenplay.

2000s

Year	Screenwriter(s)	Film
2007	Tamara Jenkins	The Savages
	Diablo Cody	Juno
	Sarah Polley	Away from Her
	Adrienne Shelly	Waitress
2008	Jenny Lumet	Rachel Getting Married
	Courtney Hunt	Frozen River
	Kelly Reichardt	Wendy and Lucy
2009	Jane Campion	Bright Star
	Nora Ephron	Julie & Julia
	Rebecca Miller	The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

2010s

Year	Screenwriter(s)	Film
2010	Lisa Cholodenko	The Kids Are All Right
	Andrea Arnold	Fish Tank
	Sofia Coppola	Somewhere
	Debra Granik	Winter's Bone
	Nicole Holofcener	Please Give
	Laeta Kalogridis	Shutter Island
2011	Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo	Bridesmaids
	Diablo Cody	Young Adult
	Abi Morgan	The Iron Lady
	Lynne Ramsay and Rory Kinnear	We Need to Talk About Kevin
	Dee Rees	Pariah
2012	Lucy Alibar (and Benh Zeitlin)	Beasts of the Southern Wild
	Zoe Kazan	Ruby Sparks
	Ava DuVernay	Middle of Nowhere
	Sarah Polley	Take This Waltz
2013	Nicole Holofcener	Enough Said
	Lake Bell	In a World...
	Julie Delpy	Before Midnight
	Jennifer Lee	Frozen
	Sarah Polley	Stories We Tell
2014	Gillian Flynn	Gone Girl
	Jennifer Kent	The Babadook
	Gillian Robespierre	Obvious Child
2015	Emma Donoghue	Room
	Marielle Heller	The Diary of a Teenage Girl
	Phyllis Nagy	Carol
	Amy Schumer	Trainwreck
2016	Kelly Reichardt	Certain Women
	Andrea Arnold	American Honey
	Rebecca Miller	Maggie's Plan
	Lorene Scafaria	The Meddler
	Laura Terruso	Hello, My Name Is Doris
2017	Greta Gerwig	Lady Bird
	Liz Hannah and Josh Singer	The Post
	Dee Rees and Virgil Williams	Mudbound

See also

• List of media awards honoring women

External links

• Alliance of Women Film Journalists official website