Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award Winners

DA Annual Achievement Awards
Best Film:
No Country For Old Men

Best Director:
The Coen Brothers

Best Original Screenplay:
Juno - Diablo Cody

Best Screenplay Adapted:
Away From Her - Sarah Polley

Best Documentary:
No End In Sight - Charles Ferguson

Best Actress:
Julie Christie - Away From Her

Best Actress In Supporting Role:
Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone

Best Actor:
Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood

Best Actor In Supporting Role:
Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton

Best Ensemble Cast:
Juno

Best Editing:
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly - Juliette Welfling

Best Foreign Film:
Diving Bell and The Butterfly - Julian Schnabel


EDA Female Focus Awards
Best Woman Director:
Sarah Polley

eh, I would've given it to Adrienne Shelly.

Best Woman Screenwriter:
Tamara Jenkins - The Savages

Best Breakthrough Performance:
Ellen Page - Juno

Best Newcomer:
Saoirse Ronan - Atonement

Women's Image Award:
Sarah Polley

Hanging in There Award for Persistence:
Ruby Dee

is that an award or an insult? "Congratulations. Even though we may not have noticed your previous Oscar Begging, we were finally bribed to watch your best performances on DVD again and decided that we might as well give you an award just to shut you up so you can die happy."

Actress Defying Age and Agism:
Julie Christie

what, no Joan Rivers?

Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In 2007:
Kathleen Kennedy, Producer, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, Persepolis

Lifetime Achievement Award:
Julie Christie

Award For Humanitarian Activism:
Angelina Jolie

EDA Special Mention Awards
Hall of Shame Award:
Norbit

Actress Most In Need Of A New Agent:
Hilary Swank

the same agent who she won two Oscars under? Yeah, lots of crap got in there but damn, I wouldn't change at the rate she's going. Come 2009 she'll have a third one....

Movie You Wanted To Love But Just Couldn't:
Margot At The Wedding

I can see where they're coming from...but respectfully disagree...

Unforgettable Moment Award:
Eastern Promises - Viggo Mortensen's full frontal

no surprise there hahaha.

Best Depiction Of Nudity or Sexuality:
Eastern Promises - Viggo Mortensen

again, no surprise.

Best Seduction: (tie)
Atonement - Keira Knightly and James McAvoy
The Namesake - Tabu and Irfan Khan

Most Egregious Age Difference Between Leading Man and Love
Interest:
Beowulf - Robin Penn Wright and Anthony Hopkins

Bravest Performance Award:
Julie Christie - Away From Her

and while we're at it, let's invent more awards for Julie Christie, because no one ever recognizes her performances....oh please. What on earth was so brave about it? She played someone with alzheimer's?

Best Leap from Actress to Director Award:
Sarah Polley

Cultural Crossover Award:
Persepolis

Sequel That Shouldn't Have Been Made Award:
Shrek 3

Best Of The Fests: (Winner and Special Mentions)
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
and
Black Sheep
Forever
Four Sheets To The Wind
Grbivica My Home
Red Road
Secret Sunshine

I've got one!

Best Performance in a film about Alzheimer's: Julie Christie

Best Performance in a film about Alzheimer's in a film directed by a woman: Julie Christie

and of course

Best Performance by Julie Christie: Julie Christie (shocker!!!)