Movies for Grownups 2016 Awards Nominees
Margo Martindale to host February awards ceremony
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Margo Martindale hosts the 16th annual Movies for Grownups Awards.
Three-time Emmy award winner Margo Martindale will host the 16th annual Movies for Grownups Awards in February — honoring the winning actors and nominees, all 50 and older, selected by the editors of AARP The Magazine.
"It's been a powerful year of smart and compelling filmmaking and brilliant performances that speak directly to an audience with a grownup state of mind," says Myrna Blyth, senior vice president and editorial director for AARP Media.
Martindale, whose career spans four decades, is no stranger to award shows: She's been nominated for five Emmys — and has won three times for two different series on FX: the crime drama Justified and the spy drama The Americans. She also has won two Critics' Choice Awards: one for Justified and a second for The Good Wife.
All of Martindale's career honors have come since 2011, the year she turned 60.
"Sometimes things just take time," she said after her first Emmy win. "I don't know if I would have appreciated this when I was 30."
This year, Martindale and her costar in The Hollars, Richard Jenkins, are Movies for Grownups nominees for Best Grownup Love Story.
They will be in stellar company at the Feb. 6 award ceremony in Beverly Hills, Calif. Proceeds from the event benefit AARP Foundation, which helps struggling people 50 and older in Los Angeles and around the country transform their lives through programs, services and legal assistance.
The nominations in all categories are:
Best Movie for Grownups
Arrival
Silence
Best Actor
Warren Beatty, Rules Don't Apply
Michael Keaton, The Founder
Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic
Denzel Washington, Fences
Best Actress
Annette Bening, 20th Century Women
Sally Field, Hello, My Name Is Doris
Isabelle Huppert, Elle
Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins
Tilda Swinton, A Bigger Splash
Best Supporting Actor
Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
Kevin Costner, Hidden Figures
Stephen Henderson, Fences
Issei Ogata, Silence
Timothy Spall, Denial
Best Supporting Actress
Viola Davis, Fences
Nicole Kidman, Lion
Helen Mirren, Eye in the Sky
Molly Shannon, Other People
Sigourney Weaver, A Monster Calls
Best Director
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
David Mackenzie, Hell or High Water
Martin Scorsese, Silence
Denzel Washington, Fences
Best Screenwriter
Pedro Almodóvar, Julieta
Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese, Silence
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
August Wilson, Fences
Best Comedy
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Best Intergenerational Film
20th Century Women
Fences
The Hollars
Lion
A Monster Calls
Best Buddy Picture
Absolutely Fabulous (Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley)
Fences (Stephen Henderson and Denzel Washington)
The Founder (John Carroll Lynch and Nick Offerman)
Genius (Jude Law and Colin Firth)
The Nice Guys (Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling)
Breakthrough Achievement
Don Cheadle (First-time director), Miles Ahead
Robert Mrazek (Former congressman directing his first film at age 70), The Congressman
James Schamus (First-time director), Indignation
Ang Lee (Pioneering breakthrough technology), Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Best Time Capsule
The Founder
Hidden Figures
Rules Don't Apply
Best Grownup Love Story
Fences (Denzel Washington and Viola Davis)
Florence Foster Jenkins (Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant)
The Hollars (Margo Martindale and Richard Jenkins)
The Meddler (Susan Sarandon and J.K. Simmons)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (Michael Constantine and Lainie Kazan)
Best Documentary
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week
Big Sonia
Everything Is Copy
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
Tower
Best Foreign Language Film
Aquarius (Brazil)
A Man Called Ove (Sweden)
Our Last Tango (Argentina)
The People vs. Fritz Bauer (Germany)
Best Movie for Grownups Who Refuse to Grow Up
The Jungle Book
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
Sing
Zootopia
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