The 14th Annual EDA Awards

BEST OF AWARDS
These awards are presented to women and/or men without gender consideration.

Best Film
• MINARI
• NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
• NOMADLAND
• ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
• PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
• THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7

Best Director
• Emerald Fennell – PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
• Regina King – ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
• Kelly Reichardt – FIRST COW
• Aaron Sorkin – TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
• Chloe Zhao – NOMADLAND

Best Screenplay, Original
• MANK – Jack Fincher
• PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN – Emerald Fennell
• THE TRIAL OF THE CHACAGO 7 – Aaron Sorkin

Best Screenplay, Adapted
• FIRST COW – Kelly Reichardt and Jon Raymond
• NOMADLAND – Chloe Zhao
• ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI – Kemp Powers

Best Documentary (Tie)
• ALL IN: THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY
• ATHLETE A
• CRIP CAMP
• THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF
• TIME

Best Animated Film
• OVER THE MOON
• SOUL
• WOLFWALKERS

Best Actress
• Viola Davis – MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
• Vanessa Kirby – PIECES OF A WOMAN
• Frances McDormand – NOMADLAND
• Carey Mulligan – PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
• Maria Bakalova – BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
• Ellen Burstyn – PIECES OF A WOMAN
• Amanda Seyfried – MANK
• Yuh-Jung Youn – MINARI

Best Actor
• Riz Ahmed – SOUND OF METAL
• Chadwick Boseman – MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
• Delroy Lindo – DA 5 BLOODS

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
• Sacha Baron Cohen – THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
• Bill Murray – ON THE ROCKS
• Leslie Odom Jr – ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI

Best Ensemble Cast – Casting Director (Tie)
• DA 5 BLOODS – Kim Coleman
• ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI – Kimberly Hardin
• THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 – Francine Maisler

Best Cinematography
• MANK – Erik Messerschmidt
• NOMADLAND – Joshua James Richards
• ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI – Tami Reiker

Best Editing
• ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI – Tariq Anwar
• NOMADLAND – Chloe Zhao
• THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 – Alan Baumgarten

Best Non-English-Language Film
• ANOTHER ROUND – Denmark
• BEANPOLE – Russia
• THE MOLE AGENT – Chile
• THE PAINTED BIRD – Czech Republic

FEMALE FOCUS AWARDS
These awards honor WOMEN only, excluding women who’ve won the same category in the Best of Awards.

Best Woman Director
• Emerald Fennell – PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
• Eliza Hittman – NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
• Regina King – ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
• Channing Godfrey Peoples – MISS JUNETEENTH
• Kelly Reichardt – FIRST COW
• Chloe Zhao – NOMADLAND

Best Woman Screenwriter
• Radha Blank – THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION
• Emerald Fennell – PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
• Eliza Hittman – NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
• Chloe Zhao – NOMADLAND

Best Animated Female

• 22 in SOUL, Tina Fey
• Mebh Óg MacTíre in WOLFWALKERS, Eva Whittaker
• Robyn Goodfellowe in WOLFWALKERS, Honor Kneafsey

Best Woman’s Breakthrough Performance
• Radha Blank – THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION
• Sidney Flanigan – NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
• Helena Zengel – NEWS OF THE WORLD

Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry
• All female heads of film festivals who successfully transitioned from live to online events to sustain festival culture through the pandemic.
• All indie female writers and directors who normalized abortion as a vital element in the cultural conversation in films such as SAINT FRANCES, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS, SISTER OF THE GROOM, ONCE UPON A RIVER, THE GLORIAS and others.
• Emerald Fennell for creating a film that forces empathy to put an end to the toxic sexist rape culture pervasive through modern history.
• Sophia Loren for a brilliant comeback at age 86 in THE LIFE AHEAD, the latest in her record-setting career. Loren won a Best Actress Oscar in 1962 for TWO WOMEN and was the first actor to win for a foreign language movie. She was also nominated in 1965 for MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE. If she’s nominated in 2021, it will be a 56-year span between her two most recent nominations – the current record is held by Henry Fonda, who had a 41-year gap between nominations.

SPECIAL MENTION AWARDS

Grand Dame Award for Defying Agism
• Ellen Burstyn – PIECES OF A WOMAN
• Tsai Chin – LUCKY GRANDMA
• Sophia Loren – THE LIFE AHEAD
• Frances McDormand – NOMADLAND

Most Egregious Lovers’ Age Difference Award
• THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY – Elizabeth Debicki and Claes Bang (23 years)
• DEVIL ALL THE TIME – Riley Keough and Jason Clarke (20 years)
• MANK – Amanda Seyfried and Charles Dance (39 years), Gary Oldman (27 years)
• TENET – Elizabeth Debicki and Kenneth Branagh (30 years)

She Deserves A New Agent Award
• Rose Byrne – LIKE A BOSS
• Tiffany Haddish – LIKE A BOSS
• Katie Holmes – DARE TO DREAM
• Uma Thurman – WAR WITH GRANDPA

Most Daring Performance Award
• Maria Bakalova – BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
• Haley Bennett – SWALLOW
• Vanessa Kirby – PIECES OF A WOMAN
• Elisabeth Moss – INVISIBLE MAN
• Carey Mulligan – PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN

Time Waster Remake or Sequel Award
• THE CROODS: A NEW AGE
• DOOLITTLE
• REBECCA

AWFJ Hall of Shame Award (Tie)
• Shia LeBoeuf for his ongoing abusive behavior
• Christopher Nolan for insisting that TENET be screened exclusively in theaters during a pandemic.
• Dallas Sonnier and Adam Donaghey at Cinestate for sexual harassment and abuse, and cover up.