2018 Movies for Grownups Awards Nominees
Winners to be announced at February show airing on PBS
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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. Shirley MacLaine will receive the Movies for Grownups career achievement award. 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 pbs.org/gperf. 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