AARP Best Film Awards

The staff of AARP The Magazine selected the winners based on their appeal to the “grownup” audience. They will be honored at AARP’s annual gala on Feb. 10 in Los Angeles and in the magazine’s February/March issue.

Best Movie for Grownups: “12 Years a Slave”
 
Best Actress: Judi Dench, “Philomena”

Best Actor: Bruce Dern, “Nebraska”

Best Supporting Actress: Oprah Winfrey, “Lee Daniels’ The Butler”

Best Supporting Actor: Chris Cooper, “August: Osage County”

Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity”

Best Screenwriter: Richard Linklater (with Julie Delphy and Ethan Hawke), “Before Midnight”

Best Grownup Love Story: Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini, “Enough Said” 

Best Comedy: “The Way Way Back”

Best Intergenerational Movie: “Nebraska”

Best Documentary: “20 Feet From Stardom”

Breakthrough Accomplishment: Mary Steenburgen singing in “Last Vegas”

Best Foreign Film: “Renoir”

Best Buddy Picture: “Last Vegas”

Best Time Capsule: “American Hustle”

Best Movie for Grownups Who Refuse to Grow Up: “Saving Mr. Banks”

Judge’s Award for Extraordinary Merit: “All Is Lost”

 AARP, Inc., formerly the American Association of Retired Persons, is a United States-based non-governmental organization and interest group, founded in 1958 by Ethel Percy Andrus, PhD, a retired educator from California, and based in Washington, D.C. It is a membership organization for people age 50 and over.
AARP operates as a non-profit advocate for its members and as one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the United States. AARP has two affiliated organizations: AARP Services Inc. which is managed wholly for profit, and the AARP Foundation, a charity that operates on a non-profit basis.