2018 Movies for Grownups Awards Nominees Movies for Grownups

2018 Movies for Grownups Awards Nominees

Winners to be announced at February show airing on PBS

Meta Film; Focus Features; Warner Bros.; Getty Images; Annapurna Pictures; Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy; Focus Features; Lifestyle Pictures/Alamy (2); Warner Bros.; Netflix; Universal Studios Sandra Bullock, Glenn Close, Julia Roberts and Hugh Jackman are among the stars nominated for AARP The Magazine’s 18th annual Movies for Grownups Awards, which honor films by and for people 50 or older, at a ceremony on Feb. 4 in Beverly Hills, Calif. will receive the . Hosted by Martin Short, the event will be televised for the second year on PBS, coproduced by the Great Performances series, on Feb. 15 at 9 p.m. (check local listings) and will stream starting Feb. 16 on . Event proceeds will benefit AARP Foundation, which works to end senior poverty by building economic opportunity and social connections for vulnerable older adults in Los Angeles and across the country.
Since mature talents are making progress in Hollywood — the average age of the 20 top-grossing film stars is 60 — there was a wide array of Movies for Grownups Awards candidates. “2018 was a banner year for a sensational collection of movies that resonated with the powerful 50-plus audience,” says Myrna Blyth, senior vice president and editorial director for AARP Media.

Here is the full list of nominees

Best Movie for Grownups

A Star Is Born BlacKkKlansman
Can You Ever Forgive Me? Green Book Roma

Best Director

Kenneth Branagh, All Is True Alfonso Cuarón, Roma Mimi Leder, On the Basis of Sex Peter Farrelly, Green Book Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman

Best Actress

Sandra Bullock, Bird Box Glenn Close, The Wife Viola Davis, Widows Nicole Kidman, Destroyer Julia Roberts, Ben Is Back

Best Actor

Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate Hugh Jackman, The Front Runner Viggo Mortensen, Green Book Robert Redford, The Old Man & the Gun John C. Reilly, Stan & Ollie

Best Supporting Actress

Angela Bassett, Black Panther Blythe Danner, What They Had Nicole Kidman, Boy Erased Michelle Yeoh, Crazy Rich Asians Judi Dench, All Is True

Best Supporting Actor

Robert Duvall, Widows Sam Elliott, A Star Is Born Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me? Robert Forster, What They Had Ian McKellen, All Is True

Best Screenwriter

Brian Hayes Currie, Nick Vallelonga, Peter Farrelly, Green Book Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara,
The Favourite Peter Hedges, Ben Is Back Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty,
Can You Ever Forgive Me? Paul Schrader, First Reformed

Best Ensemble

Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody Crazy Rich Asians The Front Runner Widows

Best Grownup Love Story

All Is True The Old Man & the Gun On the Basis of Sex Private Life What They Had

Best Time Capsule

Bohemian Rhapsody BlacKkKlansman First Man If Beale Street Could Talk Roma

Best Intergenerational Movie

Beautiful Boy Ben Is Back Crazy Rich Asians A Quiet Place Mary Poppins Returns

Best Documentary

Amazing Grace Bathtubs Over Broadway
RBG The Rest I Make Up Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Best Foreign Film

Cold War (Poland) The Guilty (Denmark) Never Look Away (Germany) Roma (Mexico) Shoplifters (Japan)

Readers Choice Poll

A Quiet Place, A Star Is Born, BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, Crazy Rich Asians, Mary Poppins Returns, Black Panther, Mission: Impossible—Fallout, First Man, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

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