2019 Movies for Grownups Awards Nominees
Winners to be announced at January show airing on PBS
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En español | Laura Dern, Renée Zellweger, Pedro Almodóvar, Billy Crudup, Linda Ronstadt and Annette Bening are among the stars expected at the 2019 Movies for Grownups Awards ceremony on Saturday in Beverly Hills, California.
Actor Tony Danza hosts the show, which will air on PBS’s Great Performances Jan. 19 (check local listings; it also will stream on pbs.org/gperf). Bening will accept a career achievement award, joining such previous recipients as Kevin Costner, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Shirley MacLaine and Helen Mirren.
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.
With mature talent now making progress in Hollywood — most of the top-grossing actors and filmmakers are over 50 — there has never been a wider array of candidates for the Movies for Grownups Awards. Check out this distinguished list of contenders to decide who are your favorites, and who you think is going to win.
Here is the full list of nominees
Bombshell
Marriage Story
The Farewell
The Irishman
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Little Women
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The Two Popes
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Bombshell
Downton Abbey
Joker
Little Women
Marriage Story
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Richard Jewell
The Irishman
The Two Popes
Isabelle Huppert, Frankie
Helen Mirren, The Good Liar
Julianne Moore, Gloria Bell
Alfre Woodard, Clemency
Renée Zellweger, Judy
Antonio Banderas, Pain and Glory
Robert De Niro, The Irishman
Eddie Murphy, Dolemite is My Name
Jonathan Pryce, The Two Popes
Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems
Laura Dern, Marriage Story
Nicole Kidman, Bombshell
Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
Zhao Shuzhen, The Farewell
Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey
Jamie Foxx, Just Mercy
Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes
Al Pacino, The Irishman
Brad Pitt, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story
Kasi Lemmons/Gregory Allen Howard, Harriet
Anthony McCarten, The Two Popes
Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
Steven Zaillian, The Irishman
Bombshell
Dolemite is My Name
Downton Abbey
Knives Out
Little Women
Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story
Fernando Meirelles, The Two Popes
Sam Mendes, 1917
Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Harriet
Judy
Little Women
Motherless Brooklyn
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Little Women
Parasite
The Etruscan Smile
The Farewell
Apollo 11
Ask Dr. Ruth
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
The Apollo
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
An Unexpected Love (Argentina)
Pain and Glory (Spain)
Parasite (South Korea)
The Farewell (U.S.)
The Unorthodox (Israel)
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Ford v Ferrari
Just Mercy
The Lighthouse
The Two Popes
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