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.

Year	Screenwriter(s)	Film	Ref.
2007	Tamara Jenkins	The Savages	^[1]
	Diablo Cody	Juno	^[2]
	Sarah Polley	Away from Her
	Adrienne Shelly	Waitress
2008	Jenny Lumet	Rachel Getting Married	^[3]
	Courtney Hunt	Frozen River	^[4]
	Kelly Reichardt	Wendy and Lucy	^[4]
2009	Jane Campion	Bright Star	^[5]
	Nora Ephron	Julie & Julia	^[6]
	Rebecca Miller	The Private Lives of Pippa Lee	^[6]

Year	Screenwriter(s)	Film	Ref.
2010	Lisa Cholodenko	The Kids Are All Right	^[7]
	Andrea Arnold	Fish Tank	^[8]
	Sofia Coppola	Somewhere
	Debra Granik	Winter's Bone
	Nicole Holofcener	Please Give
	Laeta Kalogridis	Shutter Island
2011	Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo	Bridesmaids	^[9]
	Diablo Cody	Young Adult	^[10]
	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	^[11]
	Zoe Kazan	Ruby Sparks	^[12]
	Ava DuVernay	Middle of Nowhere
	Sarah Polley	Take This Waltz
2013	Nicole Holofcener	Enough Said	^[13]
	Lake Bell	In a World...	^[14]
	Julie Delpy	Before Midnight
	Jennifer Lee	Frozen
	Sarah Polley	Stories We Tell
2014	Gillian Flynn	Gone Girl	^[15]
	Jennifer Kent	The Babadook	^[16]
	Gillian Robespierre	Obvious Child	^[16]
2015	Emma Donoghue	Room	^[17]
	Marielle Heller	The Diary of a Teenage Girl	^[18]
	Phyllis Nagy	Carol
	Amy Schumer	Trainwreck
2016	Kelly Reichardt	Certain Women	^[19]
	Andrea Arnold	American Honey	^[20]
	Rebecca Miller	Maggie's Plan
	Lorene Scafaria	The Meddler
	Laura Terruso	Hello, My Name Is Doris
2017	Greta Gerwig	Lady Bird	^[21]
	Liz Hannah and Josh Singer	The Post	^[22]
	Dee Rees and Virgil Williams	Mudbound	^[22]

v t e Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
Current awards	Best Picture Best Director Best Actor Best Actress Best Woman Director Best Woman Screenwriter Best Animated Film

v t e American film critic associations
National	Critics Choice Association National Board of Review National Society of Film Critics African-American Film Critics Association Hollywood Creative Alliance
Northeast	Boston Online Film Critics Association Boston Society of Film Critics New York Film Critics Circle New York Film Critics Online Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association
Midwest	Chicago Film Critics Association Detroit Film Critics Society Kansas City Film Critics Circle St. Louis Film Critics Association
South	Austin Film Critics Association Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Florida Film Critics Circle Georgia Film Critics Association Houston Film Critics Society Southeastern Film Critics Association
West	Las Vegas Film Critics Society Los Angeles Film Critics Association Phoenix Film Critics Society San Diego Film Critics Society San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Seattle Film Critics Society

Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Woman Screenwriter

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