Friday, December 20, 2013

2013 EDA Awards Nominations - Complete List

[Editor's note: The EDA Award winners were announced today, Friday, December 20, 2013.  I list them some time this weekend.]

According the organization’s website, The Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Inc. (AWFJ), was founded in 2006.  The membership is made up of “highly qualified professional female movie critics, reporters and feature writers working in print, broadcast and online media.”  Its state purpose is to “support work by and about women - both in front of and behind the cameras - through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting the annual EDA Awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the movies.”

2013 EDA Award Nominees:
With sincerest appreciation of all the great work that’s been done in film this year, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists is pleased to announce the nominees for the 2013 EDA Awards.

AWFJ BEST OF AWARDS

BEST FILM
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska

BEST DIRECTOR (Female or Male) 
Joel and Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis
Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity
Spike Jonze - Her
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
Alexander Payne – Nebraska
David O. Russell – American Hustle

BEST SCREENPLAY, ORIGINAL
American Hustle – Eric Singer and David O. Russell
Enough Said – Nicole Holofcener
Her – Spike Jonze
Inside Llewyn Davis – Joel and Ethan Cohen
Nebraska – Bob Nelson

BEST SCREENPLAY, ADAPTED 
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope – Philomena
Daniel Cretton – Short Term 12
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber – The Spectacular Now
Billy Ray – Captain Phillips
John Ridley - 12 Years a Slave

BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Act of Killing – Joshua Oppenheimer
After Tiller – Martha Shane and Lana Wilson
20 Feet From Stardom – Morgan Neville
Blackfish - Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Stories We Tell – Sarah Polley

BEST ANIMATED FILM 
The Croods – Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders
Despicable Me 2 - Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud
Frozen – Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck
The Wind Rises - Hayao Miyazaki

BEST ACTRESS 
Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Judi Dench – Philomena
Brie Larson – Short Term 12
Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE 
Sally Hawkins – Blue Jasmine
Scarlett Johanson - Her
Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
Lupita Nyong’o - 12 Years a Slave
Oprah Winfrey – Lee Daniels’ The Butler

BEST ACTOR
Bruce Dern – Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave
Oscar Isaac – Inside Llewyn Davis
Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club
Joaquin Phoenix - Her
Robert Redford – All is Lost

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips
Bobby Cannavale – Blue Jasmine
Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club
Michael Fassbender - 12 Years a Slave
Will Forte - Nebraska

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
12 Years A Slave
American Hustle
August: Osage County
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Nebraska

BEST EDITING
12 Years a Slave – Joe Walker
American Hustle – Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers
Captain Phillips – Christopher Rouse
Gravity - Alfonso Cuaron and Mark Sanger
Rush - Daniel P. Henley

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
12 Years A Slave – Sean Bobbit
All is Lost – Frank G. DeMarco and Peter Zuccarini
Gravity - Emmanuel Lubezki
Nebraska - Phedon Papamichael
Prisoners - Roger Deakins

BEST MUSIC OR SCORE
12 Years A Slave – Hans Zimmer
Gravity - Steve Price
Inside Llewyn Davis – T-Bone Burnett
Her - Arcade Fire
Nebraska – Mark Orton

BEST NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM
Blue Is The Warmest Color – Abdellatif Kechiche – France
The Grandmaster – Wong Kar-Wai – Hong Kong
The Hunt – Thomas Vinterberg – Denmark
The Past – Asghar Farhadi – Iran
Wadjda – Haifaa Al-Mansour - Saudi Arabia

EDA FEMALE FOCUS AWARDS
These awards honor WOMEN only.

BEST WOMAN DIRECTOR 
Lake Bell – In A World
Gabriele Cowperthwaite – Blackfish
Nicole Holofcener - Enough Said
Jennifer Lee - Frozen
Sarah Polley – Stories We Tell

BEST WOMAN SCREENWRITER 
Lake Bell – In A World
Julie Delpy - Before Midnight
Nicole Holofcener - Enough Said
Jennifer Lee – Frozen
Sarah Polley – Stories We Tell

KICK ASS AWARD FOR BEST FEMALE ACTION STAR
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Jennifer Lawrence - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Chloe Grace Moretz - Kick Ass 2

BEST ANIMATED FEMALE 
Anna (Kristen Bell) in Frozen
Eep (Emma Stone) in The Croods
Elsa (Idina Menzel) in Frozen

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE 
Brie Larson, Short Term 12
Lupita Nyong’o 12 Years A Slave
Shailene Woodley, The Spectacular Now

ACTRESS DEFYIG AGE AND AGISM 
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Judi Dench – Philomena
Meryl Streep – August: Osage County

AWFJ FEMALE ICON AWARD:
(Presented to an actress for the portrayal of the most positive female role model, or for a role in which she takes personal and/or career risks to plumb the female psyche and therefore gives us courage to plumb our own, and/or for putting forth the image of a woman who is heroic, accomplished, persistent, demands her rights and/or the rights of others.)

Sandra Bullock for the strong, capable and very positive female image presented in ‘Gravity’

Angelina Jolie for continued commitments to humanitarian causes, and for promoting awareness about breast cancer.

Jennifer Lawrence for ‘American Hustle’ and ‘Hunger Games: Catching Fire,’ and for handling her high degree of celebrity extremely well.

THIS YEAR’S OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT By A Woman In The Film Industry:
(Presented only when warranted to a female who has had a banner-making, record-breaking, industry-changing achievement during any given year — such as Kathryn Bigelow’s Best Director Oscar win, or for an actress having multiple outstanding films released during one year.)

Haaifa Al-Mansour for challenging the limitations placed on women within her culture.

Cheryl Boone Isaac for becoming President of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Jahane Noujaim for risking life and limb to document the Egyptian revolution in ‘The Square’

EDA SPECIAL MENTION AWARDS

AWFJ HALL OF SHAME AWARD 
The Counselor – Ridley Scott
Grown Ups 2 – Dennis Dugan
Movie 43 - Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Dundieff, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, Peter Farrelly, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, James Gun, Brett Ratner, Jonathan van Tulleken, Bob Odenkirk

ACTRESS MOST IN NEED OF A NEW AGENT 
Cameron Diaz, The Counselor
Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgins, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine – Spring Breakers
Melissa McCarthy – Identity Thief, The Heat

MOVE YOU WANTED TO LOVE but Just Couldn’t Award
All is Lost
Blue Is The Warmest Color
The Counselor

UNFORGETTABLE MOMENT AWARD
Gravity – George Clooney reappears
12 Years A Slave – Patsy pleads for soap
Her – Phone sex sequences
Nebraska – “That’s not my air compressor”
12 Years A Slave – Solomon hanging

BEST DEPICTION OF NUDITY, SEXUALITY, OR SEDUCTION AWARD
Blue Is The Warmest Color Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopoulos
Her Scarlett Johansson and Joaquin Phoenix
The Spectacular Now – Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller

SEQUEL OR REMAKE THAT SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN MADE AWARD
Carrie
Grown Ups 2
The Hangover
Kick Ass
Oz, Great and Powerful

MOST EGREGIOUS AGE DIFFERENCE Between The Leading Man and The Love Interest Award:
August: Osage County – Dermot Mulroney and Abigail Breslin
The Invisible Women – Ralph Feinnes and Felicity Jones
Last Vegas – Michael Douglas and Bree Blair
The Lifeguard – Kristen Bell and David Lambert
Oblivion – Tom Cruise and Andrea Reisborough/Olga Kurylenko

http://awfj.org/

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