AWFJ Announces 2006 EDA Awards Nominees

The Alliance of Women Journalists is pleased to announce the nominees for its 2006 EDA Awards.

When the winners in the below listed categories are announced, AWFJ will also present it’s 2006 Best Year Achievement, Lifetime Achievement, Humanitarianism and Best of Fests (for films that premiered in festivals but didn’t find distribution in 2006), and its 2006 Hall of Shame inductees. The nominees for other awards categories are as follows:

BEST FILM:

1. Dreamgirls – Bill Condon

2. Pan’s Labyrinth – Guillermo del Toro

3. The Departed – Martin Scorsese

4. The Queen – Stephen Frears

5. Volver – Pedro Almodovar

BEST DRAMA BY OR ABOUT WOMEN:

1. Little Children – Todd Field

2. Sherrybaby – Laurie Collyer

3. The Queen – Stephen Frears

4. Volver – Pedro Almodovar

5. Water – Deepa Mehta

BEST COMEDY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN:

1. The Devil Wears Prada – David Frankel

2. Friends With Money – Nicole Holofcener

3. Little Miss Sunshine – Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris

4. Prairie Home Companion – Robert Altman

5. Stranger Than Fiction – Marc Forster

BEST SCREENPLAY WRITTEN BY A WOMAN:

1. Catch A Fire – Shawn Slovo

2. The Devil Wears Prada – Aline Brosh McKenna

3. Half Nelson – Anna Boden

4. House of Sand – Elena Soarez

5. World Trade Center – Andrea Berloff

BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN:

1. Deliver Us From Evil – Amy Berg

2. Shut Up & Sing – Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck

3. Highway Courtesans – Mystelle Brabbee

4. Jesus Camp – Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady

5. My Country, My Country – Laura Poitras

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE:

1. Penelope Cruz – Volver

2. Judi Dench – Notes on A Scandal

3. Maggie Gyllenhaal – Sherrybaby

4. Helen Mirren – The Queen

5. Kate Winslet – Little Children

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDIC PERFORMANCE:

1. Toni Colette – Little Miss Sunshine

2. Penelope Cruz – Volver

3. Catherine O’Hara – For Your Consideration

4. Meryl Streep – The Devil Wears Prada

5. Emma Thompson – Stranger Than Fiction

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS OR ACTOR IN SUPPORT OF A FEMALE PROTAGONIST OR FEMALE PERSPECTIVE:

1. Alan Arkin – Little Miss Sunshine

2. Adriana Barraza – Babel

3. Ryan Gosling – Half Nelson

4. Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls

5. Carmen Maura – Volve

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE FOR A YOUNG ACTRESS:

1. Ivana Banquero – Pan’s Labyrinth

2. Abigail Breslin – Little Miss Sunshine

3. Abbie Cornish – Candy/Somersault

4. Shareeka Epps – Half Nelson

5. Rinko Kikuchi – Babel

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

1. Babel

2. Little Children

3. Little Ms. Sunshine

4. Prairie Home Companion

5. Volver

THE HANGING IN THERE FOR THE BEST PERSISTENCE:

1. Susan Bauman – Shadow of Afghanistan

2. Mystelle Brabbee – Highway Courtesans

3. Jonathan Dayton and Valarie Faris – Little Miss Sunshine

4. Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck – Shut Up & Sing

5. Deepa Mehta – Water

ACTRESS MOST IN NEED OF A NEW AGENT:

1. Bryce Dallas Howard

2. Nicole Kidman

3. Sarah Jessica Parker

4. Meg Ryan

5. Uma Thurman

MOVIES YOU WANTED TO LOVE BUT JUST COULDN’T:

1. All The King’s Men

2. Lake House

3. Marie Antoinette

4. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

5. The Holiday

BEST DEPICTION OF NUDITY OR SEXUALITY:

1. Babel

2. Borat

3. Little Children

4. Notorious Bettie Page

5. Sherrybaby

DON’T STICK YOU HEAD IN THE SAND:

1. An Inconvenient Truth – Davis Guggenheim

2. Deliver Us From Evil – Amy Berg

3. Highway Courtesans – Mystelle Brabbee

4. Jesus Camp – Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady

5. 3 Needles – Thom Fitzgerald

6. Who Killed the Electric Car? – Chris Paine