Alliance Of Women Film Journalists Announces 2018 EDA Award Nominees
The 84-member Alliance of Women Film Journalists is among the most prestigious film journalism awards bodies in the U.S., their awards among each year's most anticipated. No surprise in which movie leads this year's: The Favourite notches up 11 mentions for the AWFJ's EDA awards, though there's an even more impressive showing for Debra Granik's excellent Leave No Trace, which pulls in eight - its best performance thus far this awards season. Looks like the AWFJ was paying attention to Jane Campion! And Vice beats back against its recent influx of scathing reviews with several top category nominations. We'll have to wait until the 10th of January to find out the winners. For now, all the nominations are below.
AWFJ Best Of Awards
Best Film
BlacKkKlansman
The Favourite
Green Book
Leave No Trace
Roma
Vice
Best Director
Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)
Debra Granik (Leave No Trace)
Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite)
Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman)
Adam McKay (Vice)
Best Actress
Yalitza Aparicio (Roma)
Glenn Close (The Wife)
Olivia Colman (The Favourite)
Viola Davis (Widows)
Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born)
Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Best Actor
Christian Bale (Vice)
Willem Dafoe (At Eternity's Gate)
Ben Foster (Leave No Trace)
Ethan Hawke (First Reformed)
Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody)
Viggo Mortensen (Green Book)
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams (Vice)
Claire Foy (First Man)
Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk)
Thomasin McKenzie (Leave No Trace)
Emma Stone (The Favourite)
Rachel Weisz (The Favourite)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Mahershala Ali (Green Book)
Steve Carell (Vice)
Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman)
Hugh Grant (Paddington 2)
Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther)
Best Screenplay, Original
Bo Burnham (Eighth Grade)
Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)
Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara (The Favourite)
Adam McKay (Vice)
Paul Schrader (First Reformed)
Best Screenplay, Adapted
Joe Robert Cole and Ryan Coogler (Black Panther)
Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini (Leave No Trace)
Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk)
Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel and Kevin Willmott (BlacKkKlansman)
Audrey Wells (The Hate U Give)
Best Cinematography
Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)
James Laxton (If Beale Street Could Talk)
Rachel Morrison (Black Panther)
Robbie Ryan (The Favourite)
Linus Sandgren (First Man)
Best Editing
Debbie Berman and Michael P. Shawver (Black Panther)
Hank Corwin (Vice)
Alfonso Cuaron and Adam Gough (Roma)
Yorgos Mavropsaridis (The Favourite)
Joe Walker (Widows)
Best Ensemble Cast / Casting Director
Black Panther (Sarah Finn)
BlacKkKlansman (Kim Coleman)
Crazy Rich Asians (Terri Taylor)
The Favourite (Dixie Chassay)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Cindy Tolan)
Vice (Francine Maisler)
Best Animated Film
Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird)
Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson)
Mary and the Witch's Flower (Giles New and Yonebayashi Hiromasa)
Ralph Breaks the Internet (Phil Johnston and Rich Moore)
Smallfoot (Karey Kirkpatrick and Jason Reisig)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman)
Best Documentary
Free Solo (Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin)
Liyana (Aaron Knopp and Amanda Knopp)
RBG (Julie Cohen and Betsy West)
Shirkers (Sandi Tan)
Three Identical Strangers (Tim Wardle)
Won't You Be My Neighbour? (Morgan Neville)
Best Non-English Language Film
Burning (Lee Chang Dong) - South Korea
Capernaum (Nadine Labaki) - Lebanon
Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski) - Poland
Roma (Alfonso Cuaron) - Mexico
Shoplifters (Koreeda Hirokazu) - Japan
EDA Female Focus Awards
Best Woman Director
Elizabeth Chomko (What They Had)
Debra Granik (Leave No Trace)
Marielle Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Tamara Jenkins (Private Life)
Karyn Kusama (Destroyer)
Nadine Labaki (Capernaum)
Rungano Nyoni (I Am Not a Witch)
Sally Potter (The Party)
Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here)
Chloe Zhao (The Rider)
Best Woman Screenwriter
Diablo Cody (Tully)
Deborah Davis (The Favourite) (with Tony McNamara)
Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini (Leave No Trace)
Nicole Holofcener (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) (with Jeff Whitty)
Tamara Jenkins (Private Life)
Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here)
Audrey Wells (The Hate U Give)
Chloe Zhao (The Rider)
Best Breakthrough Performance
Yalitza Aparicio (Roma)
Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade)
Kiki Layne (If Beale Street Could Talk)
Thomasin McKenzie (Leave No Trace)
Letitia Wright (Black Panther)
Best Animated Female
Greta Gerwig - 'Tracy Walker' (Isle of Dogs)
Holly Hunter - 'Elastigirl' (Incredibles 2)
Sarah Silverman - 'Vanellope' (Ralph Breaks the Internet)
Hailee Steinfeld - 'Gwen Stacy' (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)
Zendaya - 'Meechee' (Smallfoot)
Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry
82 women who stood on the Palais des Festivals steps at the Cannes Film Festival to protest gender inequality in festival programming
Ava DuVernay for hiring women filmmakers for Queen Sugar and other projects
Megan Ellison for challenging the status quo and producing projects by unique and diverse voices
Nicole Kidman for a banner year of performances in Destroyer, Boy Erased and Aquaman, and for opening opportunity for women in production
Rachel Morrison for paving the road for women cinematographers with her Oscar nomination for Mudbound and scoring as DP on Black Panther
Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and all the women speaking out in the #MeToo movement
EDA Special Mention Awards
Actress Defying Age and Ageism
Glenn Close (The Wife)
Viola Davis (Widows)
Nicole Kidman (Destroyer)
Sissy Spacek (The Old Man & the Gun)
Tea with the Dames (Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith)
Bravest Performance
Toni Collette (Hereditary)
Olivia Colman (The Favourite)
Viola Davis (Widows)
Nicole Kidman (Destroyer)
Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Charlize Theron (Tully)
Mary Elizabeth Winstead (All About Nina)
Remake or Sequel That Shouldn't Have Been Made
Death Wish
Fifty Shades Freed
Overboard
The Predator
Robin Hood
Actress Most in Need of a New Agent
Anna Faris (Overboard)
Jennifer Garner (Peppermint)
Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades Freed)
Jennifer Lawrence (Red Sparrow)
Melissa McCarthy (Everything except Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Amy Schumer (I Feel Pretty)
Most Egregious Age Difference Between the Lead and the Love Interest
Nicolas Cage and Andrea Riseborough (Mandy)
Tom Cruise and Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible - Fallout)
Eugenio Derbez and Anna Faris (Overboard)
Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Lawrence (Red Sparrow)
Keanu Reeves and Ana Ularu (Siberia)
AWFJ Hall of Shame Award
Abusers Weinstein, Moonves, CK, Rush, Franco, Singer, Rose, Lauer et al.
Fifty Shades Freed
The Happytime Murders
Red Sparrow
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