Hollywood may be a youth-obsessed industry when it comes to turning out movies, but with one of the first groups to nominate the year’s best films the opposite is the rule of the day.
AARP has announced nominees for their annual Movies For Grownups Awards aimed at championing films and television achievements that appeal to the 50+ readers and membership of their organization. Hamnet, A House Of Dynamite, One Battle After Another, Sinners, and Train Dreams are named for Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups. That they all are also prime contenders for Best Picture Oscar nominations might also tell us something about the average age of voters for Academy Awards as well.
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Don’t look for Timothee Chalamet, Sydney Sweeney, Emma Stone, Michael B. Jordan or other major acting contenders on this list. You gotta be 50 or older to make this cut. Welcome Leonardo Di Caprio though. He just turned 51.
“These nominees prove that powerful storytelling transcends age. At AARP, we believe representation matters—not just for audiences, but for the industry itself,” said Myechia Minter-Jordan, CEO of AARP. “By honoring these actors and creators, we’re shining a light on the richness, depth, and diversity of experience that deserves to be seen and celebrated.”
The annual MFG Awards ceremony will take place on Saturday, January 10, 2026, at the Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, in Beverly Hills, California. Alan Cumming, the Tony- and Emmy Award-winning host of the widely lauded competition show The Traitors, will return to host the Movies for Grownups Awards with AARP, which will be broadcast by Great Performances on Sunday, February 22, 2026, at 7/6c on PBS (check local listings), pbs.org/moviesforgrownups and the PBS app.
Jessie Buckley in a scene from the movie Hamnet
Here is the full list of nominees for movies and television achievements in 2025:
Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups: Hamnet, A House of Dynamite, One Battle After Another, Sinners, Train Dreams.
● Best Actress: Laura Dern (Is This Thing On?), Jodie Foster (A Private Life), Lucy Liu (Rosemead), Julia Roberts (After the Hunt), and June Squibb (Eleanor the Great).
● Best Actor: George Clooney (Jay Kelly), Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another), Joel Edgerton (Train Dreams), Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon), and Dwayne Johnson (The Smashing Machine).
● Best Supporting Actress: Regina Hall (One Battle After Another), Amy Madigan (Weapons), Helen Mirren (Goodbye June), Gwyneth Paltrow (Marty Supreme), and Sigourney Weaver (Avatar: Fire and Ash).
● Best Supporting Actor: Benicio Del Toro (One Battle After Another), Delroy Lindo (Sinners), Sean Penn (One Battle After Another), Michael Shannon (Nuremberg), and Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value).
● Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another), Kathryn Bigelow (A House of Dynamite), Scott Cooper (Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere), Guillermo del Toro (Frankenstein), and Spike Lee (Highest 2 Lowest).
● Best Screenwriter: Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another), Noah Baumbach and EmilyMortimer (Jay Kelly), Bradley Cooper, Will Arnett, and Mark Chappell (Is This Thing On?), Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale), and James Vanderbilt (Nuremberg).
AARP Movies For Grownups Awards nominations list 2024
● Best Ensemble: A House of Dynamite, Jay Kelly, Nuremberg, One Battle After Another, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.
● Best Intergenerational Film: Eleanor the Great, The Lost Bus, Rental Family, Rosemead, Sentimental Value.
● Best Period Film: Dead Man’s Wire, Marty Supreme, Nuremberg, Sinners, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.
● Best Documentary: Becoming Led Zeppelin, Cover Up, My Mom Jayne, Riefenstahl, Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost.
● Best Foreign-Language Film: It Was Just an Accident, No Other Choice, Nouvelle Vague, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value.
● Best TV Series or Limited Series: Adolescence, Hacks, The Pitt, The Studio, The White Lotus.
● Best Actor (TV): Walton Goggins (The White Lotus), Stephen Graham (Adolescence), Gary Oldman (Slow Horses), Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us), Noah Wyle (The Pitt).
● Best Actress (TV): Kathy Bates (Matlock), Kathryn Hahn (The Studio), Catherine O’Hara (The Studio), Parker Posey (The White Lotus), Jean Smart (Hacks
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