# AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Intergenerational Film

The AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Intergenerational Film is one of the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards presented annually by AARP the Magazine. The award honors the film with the best portrayal of relationships between people of different ages. The award for Best Intergenerational Film was first given in 2003, when the awards expanded beyond their initial four categories of Best Movie for Grownups, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress.

## Winners and Nominees

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### 2000s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 2002 (2nd) | Road to Perdition‡ | Sam Mendes ‡ |
| 2002 (2nd) | Antwone Fisher | Denzel Washington |
| 2002 (2nd) | The Hours | Stephen Daldry |
| 2002 (2nd) | My Big Fat Greek Wedding | Joel Zwick |
| 2003 (3rd) | Secondhand Lions‡ | Tim McCanlies ‡ |
| 2003 (3rd) | Bend It Like Beckham | Gurinder Chadha |
| 2003 (3rd) | In America | Jim Sheridan |
| 2003 (3rd) | Whale Rider | Niki Caro |
| 2004 (4th) | Miracle‡ | Gavin O'Connor ‡ |
| 2004 (4th) | Baadasssss! | Mario Van Peebles |
| 2004 (4th) | Monsieur Ibrahim | François Dupeyron |
| 2004 (4th) | The Five Obstructions | Lars von Trier |
| 2004 (4th) | Spanglish | James L. Brooks |
| 2005 (5th) | Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story‡ | John Gatins ‡ |
| 2005 (5th) | Because of Winn-Dixie | Wayne Wang |
| 2005 (5th) | In Her Shoes | Curtis Hanson |
| 2005 (5th) | Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont | Dan Ireland |
| 2005 (5th) | The Squid and the Whale | Noah Baumbach |
| 2006 (6th) | Akeelah and the Bee‡ | Doug Atchison ‡ |
| 2006 (6th) | Aurora Borealis | James C.E. Burke |
| 2006 (6th) | Brooklyn Lobster | Kevin Jordan |
| 2006 (6th) | Little Miss Sunshine | Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris |
| 2006 (6th) | Quinceañera | Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland |
| 2007 (7th) | The Namesake‡ | Mira Nair ‡ |
| 2007 (7th) | The Great Debaters | Denzel Washington |
| 2007 (7th) | 3:10 to Yuma | James Mangold |
| 2007 (7th) | The Savages | Tamara Jenkins |
| 2007 (7th) | Juno | Jason Reitman |
| 2008 (8th) | The Visitor‡ | Tom McCarthy‡ |
| 2008 (8th) | Rachel Getting Married | Jonathan Demme |
| 2008 (8th) | Gran Torino | Clint Eastwood |
| 2008 (8th) | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | David Fincher |
| 2008 (8th) | Smart People | Noam Murro |
| 2009 (9th) | Everybody's Fine‡ | Kirk Jones ‡ |
| 2009 (9th) | The Blind Side | John Lee Hancock |
| 2009 (9th) | Taking Woodstock | Ang Lee |
| 2009 (9th) | Whip It | Drew Barrymore |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 2010 (10th) | Flipped‡ | Rob Reiner ‡ |
| 2010 (10th) | The Karate Kid | Harald Zwart |
| 2010 (10th) | The Kids Are All Right | Lisa Cholodenko |
| 2010 (10th) | That Evening Sun | Scott Teems |
| 2010 (10th) | Touching Home | Logan and Noah Miller |
| 2011 (11th) | Win Win‡ | Tom McCarthy ‡ |
| 2011 (11th) | The First Grader | Justin Chadwick |
| 2011 (11th) | Hugo | Martin Scorsese |
| 2011 (11th) | The Music Never Stopped | Jim Kohlberg |
| 2012 (12th) | Silver Linings Playbook‡ | David O. Russell ‡ |
| 2012 (12th) | Moonrise Kingdom | Wes Anderson |
| 2012 (12th) | Parental Guidance | Andy Fickman |
| 2012 (12th) | Starlet | Sean Baker |
| 2012 (12th) | Trouble with the Curve | Robert Lorenz |
| 2013 (13th) | Nebraska‡ | Alexander Payne ‡ |
| 2013 (13th) | Bless Me, Ultima | Carl Franklin |
| 2013 (13th) | The Book Thief | Brian Percival |
| 2013 (13th) | Philomena | Stephen Frears |
| 2013 (13th) | The Way, Way Back | Nat Faxon and Jim Rash |
| 2014 (14th) | St. Vincent‡ | Theodore Melfi ‡ |
| 2014 (14th) | Chef | Jon Favreau |
| 2014 (14th) | The Judge | David Dobkin |
| 2014 (14th) | This Is Where I Leave You | Shawn Levy |
| 2015 (15th) | Creed‡ | Ryan Coogler ‡ |
| 2015 (15th) | Grandma | Paul Weitz |
| 2015 (15th) | The Intern | Nancy Meyers |
| 2015 (15th) | Straight Outta Compton | F. Gary Gray |
| 2015 (15th) | Woman in Gold | Simon Curtis |
| 2016 (16th) | 20th Century Women‡ | Mike Mills ‡ |
| 2016 (16th) | A Monster Calls | J.A. Bayona |
| 2016 (16th) | Fences | Denzel Washington |
| 2016 (16th) | Lion | Garth Davis |
| 2016 (16th) | The Hollars | John Krasinski |
| 2017 (17th) | The Florida Project‡ | Sean Baker ‡ |
| 2017 (17th) | The Big Sick | Michael Showalter |
| 2017 (17th) | Lady Bird | Greta Gerwig |
| 2017 (17th) | Marjorie Prime | Michael Almereyda |
| 2017 (17th) | Wonder | Stephen Chbosky |
| 2018 (18th) | Mary Poppins Returns‡ | Rob Marshall‡ |
| 2018 (18th) | A Quiet Place | John Krasinski |
| 2018 (18th) | Beautiful Boy | Felix van Groeningen |
| 2018 (18th) | Ben Is Back | Peter Hedges |
| 2018 (18th) | Crazy Rich Asians | John M. Chu |
| 2019 (19th) | The Farewell‡ | Lulu Wang |
| 2019 (19th) | A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | Marielle Heller |
| 2019 (19th) | Little Women | Greta Gerwig |
| 2019 (19th) | Parasite | Bong Joon-ho |
| 2019 (19th) | The Etruscan Smile | Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 2020/21 (20th) | Minari‡ | Lee Isaac Chung ‡ |
| 2020/21 (20th) | The Father | Florian Zeller |
| 2020/21 (20th) | Hillbilly Elegy | Ron Howard |
| 2020/21 (20th) | The Life Ahead | Edoardo Ponti |
| 2020/21 (20th) | On the Rocks | Sofia Coppola |
| 2021 (21st) | CODA‡ | Sian Heder |
| 2021 (21st) | Belfast | Kenneth Branagh |
| 2021 (21st) | C'Mon C'Mon | Mike Mills |
| 2021 (21st) | King Richard | Reinaldo Marcus Green |
| 2021 (21st) | The Tender Bar | George Clooney |
| 2022 (22nd) | Till‡ | Chinonye Chukwu |
| 2022 (22nd) | Armageddon Time | James Gray |
| 2022 (22nd) | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Daniel Kwan & Daniel Schienart |
| 2022 (22nd) | The Fabelmans | Steven Spielberg |
| 2022 (22nd) | A Man Called Otto | Marc Forster |