Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Actor

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Actor is an annual Best Actor 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.

2000s

Year	Actor	Character	Film
2007	Daniel Day-Lewis †	Daniel Plainview	There Will Be Blood
	Johnny Depp ‡	Benjamin Barker / Sweeney Todd	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
	Tommy Lee Jones ‡	Hank Deerfield	In the Valley of Elah
	Viggo Mortensen ‡	Nikolai Luzhin	Eastern Promises
2008	Sean Penn †	Harvey Milk	Milk
	Richard Jenkins ‡	Walter Vale	The Visitor
	Mickey Rourke ‡	Randy "The Ram" Robinson	The Wrestler
2009	Jeff Bridges †	Otis "Bad" Blake	Crazy Heart
	George Clooney ‡	Ryan Bingham	Up in the Air
	Jeremy Renner ‡	Sergeant First Class William James	The Hurt Locker

2010s

Year	Actor	Character	Film
2010	Colin Firth †	King George VI	The King's Speech
	Javier Bardem ‡	Uxbal	Biutiful
	Jeff Bridges ‡	Rooster Cogburn	True Grit
	Jesse Eisenberg ‡	Mark Zuckerberg	The Social Network
	James Franco ‡	Aron Ralston	127 Hours
2011	Michael Fassbender	Brandon Sullivan	Shame
	George Clooney ‡	Matt King	The Descendants
	Jean Dujardin †	George Valentin	The Artist
	Brad Pitt ‡	Billy Beane	Moneyball
	Michael Shannon	Curtis LaForche	Take Shelter
2012	Daniel Day-Lewis †	Abraham Lincoln	Lincoln
	John Hawkes	Mark O'Brien	The Sessions
	Joaquin Phoenix ‡	Freddy Quell	The Master
2013	Matthew McConaughey †	Ron Woodroof	Dallas Buyers Club
	Bruce Dern ‡	Woody Grant	Nebraska
	Chiwetel Ejiofor ‡	Solomon Northup	12 Years a Slave
	Oscar Isaac	Llewyn Davis	Inside Llewyn Davis
	Joaquin Phoenix	Theodore Twombly	Her
	Robert Redford	Our Man	All Is Lost
2014	Michael Keaton ‡	Riggan Thomson	Birdman
	Jake Gyllenhaal	Louis "Lou" Bloom	Nightcrawler
	Eddie Redmayne †	Stephen Hawking	The Theory of Everything
2015	Leonardo DiCaprio †	Hugh Glass	The Revenant
	Matt Damon ‡	Mark Watney	The Martian
	Michael Fassbender ‡	Steve Jobs	Steve Jobs
	Eddie Redmayne ‡	Lili Elbe	The Danish Girl
2016	Casey Affleck †	Lee Chandler	Manchester by the Sea
	Joel Edgerton	Richard Loving	Loving
	Ryan Gosling ‡	Sebastian Wilder	La La Land
	Tom Hanks	Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger	Sully
	Denzel Washington ‡	Troy Maxson	Fences
2017	Gary Oldman †	Winston Churchill	Darkest Hour
	Timothée Chalamet ‡	Elio Perlman	Call Me by Your Name
	Daniel Kaluuya ‡	Chris Washington	Get Out
2018	Christian Bale	Dick Cheney	Vice
	Willem Dafoe	Vincent van Gogh	At Eternity's Gate
	Ben Foster	Will	Leave No Trace
	Ethan Hawke	Pastor Ernst Toller	First Reformed
	Rami Malek	Freddie Mercury	Bohemian Rhapsody
	Viggo Mortensen	Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga	Green Book