Academy Awards Winners Skew Older, Aging Oscar Voters Movies for Grownups

Why Oscar Winners Are Getting Older

The average age of award winners for best actor and actress has been steadily climbing since the 1950s

In , youth may not always rule. Pop-culture analyst averaged the ages of in five-year increments and found an overall upward trend, especially since the 1950s. Belinkie speculates that the growing gulf between award-winning prestige pictures and crowd-pleasing popcorn flicks could be fueling the age creep. "Now movies that are made to win Oscars are designed for an older audience," he says. See also: Perhaps not unrelated: Oscar voters aren't getting any younger either. In 2012 the Los Angeles Times determined that the median age of members of the was 62.

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