25th Annual AARP MOVIES FOR GROWNUPS Awards
Saturday, January 10, 2026
Beverly Wilshire, Beverly Hills, California
Hosted by Alan Cumming
Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups
HAMNET • Focus Features
Chloé Zhao | Director
Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Sam Mendes, Steven Spielberg | Producers
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A House of Dynamite • Netflix
One Battle After Another • Warner Bros. Pictures
Sinners • Warner Bros. Pictures
Train Dreams • Netflix
Best Director
Guillermo del Toro
Frankenstein • Netflix
Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale, Scott Stuber | Producers
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Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
Kathryn Bigelow – A House of Dynamite
Scott Cooper – Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
Spike Lee – Highest 2 Lowest
Best ACTOR
George Clooney
Jay Kelly • Netflix
Noah Baumbach | Director
Noah Baumbach, Amy Pascal, David Heyman | Producers
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Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
Dwayne Johnson – The Smashing Machine
Best ACTRESS
Laura Dern
Is This Thing On? • Searchlight Pictures
Bradley Cooper | Director
Bradley Cooper, Weston Middleton, Will Arnett, Kris Thykier | Producers
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Jodie Foster – A Private Life
Lucy Liu – Rosemead
Julia Roberts – After the Hunt
June Squibb – Eleanor the Great
Best supporting ACTor
DELROY LINDO
SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures
Ryan Coogler | Director
Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler | Producers
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Benicio Del Toro – One Battle After Another
Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
Michael Shannon – Nuremberg
Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value
Best supporting ACTrESS
Regina Hall
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER •
Warner Bros. Pictures
Paul Thomas Anderson | Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam Somner, Sara Murphy | Producers
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Amy Madigan – Weapons
Helen Mirren – Goodbye June
Gwyneth Paltrow – Marty Supreme
Sigourney Weaver – Avatar: Fire and Ash
Best sCREENWRITER
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER •
Warner Bros. Pictures
Written by Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson | Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam Somner, Sara Murphy | Producers
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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale – Julian Fellowes
Is This Thing On? – Bradley Cooper, Will Arnett and Mark Chappell
Jay Kelly – Noah Baumbach and Emily Mortimer
Nuremberg – James Vanderbilt
Best ensemble
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER •
Warner Bros. Pictures
Paul Thomas Anderson | Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam Somner, Sara Murphy | Producers
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A House of Dynamite
Jay Kelly
Nuremberg
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Best Intergenerational Film
Sentimental Value • NEON
Joachim Trier | Director
Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Maria Ekerhovd | Producers
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Eleanor the Great
The Lost Bus
Rental Family
Rosemead
Best Period Film
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere • 20th Century Studios
Scott Cooper | Director
Scott Cooper, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Eric Robinson, Scott Stuber | Producers
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Dead Man’s Wire
Marty Supreme
Nuremberg
Sinners
Best DOCUMENTARY
My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay • HBO Max
Mariska Hargitay | Director
Trish Adlesic, Mariska Hargitay | Producers
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Becoming Led Zeppelin
Cover-Up
Riefenstahl
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost
Best Foreign-Language Film
Sentimental Value • NEON
Joachim Trier | Director
Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Maria Ekerhovd | Producers
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It Was Just an Accident
No Other Choice
Nouvelle Vague
The Secret Agent
TELEVISION
Best TV Series or Limited Series
The Pitt • HBO Max
R. Scott Gemmill | Creator
Simran Baidwan, R. Scott Gemmill, Michael Hissrich, Erin Jontow, John Wells, Noah Wyle | Executive Producers
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Adolescence
Hacks
The Studio
The White Lotus
Best Actor | TELEVISION
Noah Wyle
The Pitt • HBO Max
R. Scott Gemmill | Creator
Simran Baidwan, R. Scott Gemmill, Michael Hissrich, Erin Jontow, John Wells, Noah Wyle | Executive Producers
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Walton Goggins – The White Lotus
Stephen Graham – Adolescence
Gary Oldman – Slow Horses
Pedro Pascal – The Last of Us
Best Actress | TELEVISION
Kathy Bates
Matlock • CBS
Kathy Bates, Jennie Snyder Urman, Joanna Klein, Eric Christian Olsen, John Will, Kat Coiro | Executive Producers
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Kathryn Hahn – The Studio
Catherine O’Hara – The Studio
Parker Posey – The White Lotus
Jean Smart – Hacks
Movies for Grownups Career Achievement Winner
ADAM SANDLER
AARP Movies For Grownups
Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups:
Best Director:
Best Actor:
Best Actress:
Best Supporting Actor:
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Best Screenwriter:
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Best Intergenerational:
Best Documentary:
Best PERIOD FILM:
Best TV Series or Limited Series:
Best Actor (TV):
Best Actress (TV):
“Hamnet”
Guillermo del Toro – “Frankenstein”
George Clooney – “Jay Kelly”
Laura Dern – “Is This Thing On?”
Delroy Lindo – “Sinners”
Regina Hall – “One Battle After Another”
“One Battle After Another” – Paul Thomas Anderson
“One Battle After Another”
“Sentimental Value”
“My Mom Jayne”
“Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere”
“The Pitt”
Noah Wyle – “The Pitt”
Kathy Bates – “Matlock”
ABOUT AARP The Magazine’s Movies for Grownups
AARP The Magazine’s Movies for Grownups Awards grew from a modest idea: Editors wanted to encourage Hollywood to make more movies of interest to an audience 50 and older. In 2002, with a magazine feature honoring 10 top talents in that year’s films, the Movies for Grownups Awards were born. Each of the honorees was sent their award, a golden movie seat.
By 2006, the awards, showcased in the magazine every year, grew into a Hollywood ceremony, the first of which was hosted by Angela Lansbury and Shelley Berman at the Bel-Air Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Dana Delany, Michael York, Jacqueline Bisset and about 125 other guests applauded winners including Jeff Daniels, Joan Plowright and Steven Spielberg.
Hollywood really did start making more films with and for grownups, and the list of nominees each year grew from 10 to over 60 with no diminution of standards for artistic excellence. In subsequent years the Movies for Grownups celebration has grown to become an important part of award season in Hollywood, a bellwether for Oscars and a ceremony that draws top talent and major media coverage. Relocated to the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, the ceremony became a dinner with a far bigger guest list, where A-list filmmakers mix and mingle. In 2018, the award show was televised for the first time, with Alan Cumming as host. Career achievement winner Helen Mirren walked the red carpet crowded with media members from dozens of outlets. This year, television awards in six categories will be given for the first time.
The annual Movies for Grownups Awards continue to advocate for talent and viewers over 50, and raise funds for AARP Foundation, AARP’s affiliated charity, which helps 50-plus Americans transform their lives through programs, services and vigorous legal advocacy. The foundation works to increase economic opportunity and social connections to prevent and reduce senior poverty.
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