Alliance of Women Film Journalists

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EDA ANNUAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

Best Film:
The Hurt Locker

Best Animated Film:
Up

Best Director:
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker

Best Screenplay, Original:
(500) Days of Summer – Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber

Best Screenplay, Adapted:
Up In The Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Best Documentary:
The Cove

Best Actress:
Carey Mulligan – An Education

Best Actress In Supporting Role:
Mo’Nique – Precious

Best Actor:
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart

Best Actor in a Supporting Role:
Christoph Waltz – Inglorious Basterds

Best Ensemble Cast:
The Hurt Locker

Best Editing:
Sally Menke – Inglorious Basterds

Most Beautiful Film:
Bright Star

Best Non-English-Language Film:
Summer Hours

EDA FEMALE FOCUS AWARDS

Best Woman Director:
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker

Best Woman Screenwriter:
Jane Campion – Bright Star

Best Animated Female:
Coraline in Coraline

Best Breakthrough Performance:
Carey Mulligan – An Education

Women’s Image Award:
Kathryn Bigelow

Perseverance Award:
Agnes Varda

Actress Defying Age and Ageism:
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia and It’s Complicated

Sexist Pig Award:
Robert Luketic for The Ugly Truth

This Year’s Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Film Industry:
Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker

Lifetime Achievement Award:
Agnes Varda

AWFJ Award For Humanitarian Activism:
Rebecca Cammisa for Which Way Home

EDA SPECIAL MENTION AWARDS

AWFJ Hall Of Shame Award:
Robert Luketic – The Ugly Truth

Actress Most in Need Of A New Agent:
Hilary Swank

Movie You Wanted To Love But Just Couldn‘t:
Amelia

Unforgettable Moment Award: (Tie)
Inglorious Basterds – Shoshanna (Melanie Laurent) burns down the theater
Precious – Mary (Mo’Nique) admits the abuse

Best Depiction Of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction: (Tie)
An Education – Carey Mulligan and Peter Saarsgard
It’s Complicated – Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin

Sequel That Shouldn’t Have Been Made Award:
Transformers Revenge of the Fallen

The Remake That Shouldn’t Have Been Made Award:
Land of the Lost

Cultural Crossover Award:
District 9

Bravest Performance Award:
Mo’Nique in Precious

Most Egregious Age Difference Between The Leading Man
and The Love Interest Award:
Whatever Works – Larry David and Evan Rachel Wood (40 years difference)

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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher

“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.

~ David Simon