# AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Supporting Actor

The AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards presented annually by the AARP. The award honors an actor over the age of 50 who has given an outstanding performance in a film in a given year. The awards for Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress were first given at the 7th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards in 2008. Prior to that, the only individual acting awards were for Best Actor and Best Actress.

## Winners and Nominees

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### 2000s

| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film |
| 2007 (7th) | Tom Wilkinson | Arthur Edens | Michael Clayton |
| 2007 (7th) | Philip Bosco | Lenny Savage | The Savages |
| 2007 (7th) | Homayoun Ershadi | the Agha Sahib | The Kite Runner |
| 2007 (7th) | Andy Griffith | Joe | Waitress |
| 2007 (7th) | Hal Holbrook | Ron Franz | Into the Wild |
| 2008 (8th) | Bill Irwin | Paul Buchman | Rachel Getting Married |
| 2008 (8th) | Bill Murray | Mayor Cole | City of Ember |
| 2008 (8th) | John Malkovich | Osbourne Cox | Burn After Reading |
| 2008 (8th) | Dennis Quaid | Ben Schwartzwalder | The Express: The Ernie Davis Story |
| 2008 (8th) | Pierce Brosnan | Sam Carmichael | Mamma Mia! |
| 2009 (9th) | Alec Baldwin | Jacob "Jake" Adler | It's Complicated |
| 2009 (9th) | Eugene Levy | Max Yasgur | Taking Woodstock |
| 2009 (9th) | Alfred Molina | Jack Mellor | An Education |
| 2009 (9th) | Christopher Plummer | Leo Tolstoy | The Last Station |
| 2009 (9th) | John Travolta | Dennis "Ryder" Ford / Mr. Blue | The Taking of Pelham 123 |

### 2010s

| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film |
| 2010 (10th) | John Malkovich | Lucien Laurin | Secretariat |
| 2010 (10th) | Geoffrey Rush | Lionel Logue | The King's Speech |
| 2010 (10th) | Kevin Costner | Jack Dolan | The Company Men |
| 2010 (10th) | Bill Murray | Frank Quinn | Get Low |
| 2010 (10th) | Ben Kingsley | Dr. John Cawley | Shutter Island |
| 2011 (11th) | Christopher Plummer | Hal Fields | Beginners |
| 2011 (11th) | Jeremy Irons | John Tuld | Margin Call |
| 2011 (11th) | Ben Kingsley | Georges Méliès | Hugo |
| 2011 (11th) | Max von Sydow | The Renter | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close |
| 2011 (11th) | Christoph Waltz | August Rosenbluth | Water for Elephants |
| 2012 (12th) | John Goodman | Harling Mays | Flight |
| 2012 (12th) | Tom Cruise | Stacee Jaxx | Rock of Ages |
| 2012 (12th) | Robert De Niro | Patrizio "Pat" Solitano, Sr. | Silver Linings Playbook |
| 2012 (12th) | Tommy Lee Jones | Thaddeus Stevens | Lincoln |
| 2012 (12th) | Tom Wilkinson | Sir Graham Dashwood | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel |
| 2013 (13th) | Chris Cooper | Charles Aiken, Sr. | August: Osage County |
| 2013 (13th) | Steve Carell | Trent Ramsey | The Way Way Back |
| 2013 (13th) | Tony Danza | Jon Martello, Sr. | Don Jon |
| 2013 (13th) | John Goodman | Roland Turner | Inside Llewyn Davis |
| 2013 (13th) | Bill Nighy | James Lake | About Time |
| 2014 (14th) | J. K. Simmons | Terence Fletcher | Whiplash |
| 2014 (14th) | Robert Duvall | Judge Joseph Palmer | The Judge |
| 2014 (14th) | John Goodman | Frank | The Gambler |
| 2014 (14th) | Don Johnson | Jim Bob Luke | Cold in July |
| 2014 (14th) | Christoph Waltz | Walter Keane | Big Eyes |
| 2015 (15th) | Mark Rylance | Rudolf Abel | Bridge of Spies |
| 2015 (15th) | Jeff Daniels | John Sculley | Steve Jobs |
| 2015 (15th) | Robert De Niro | Rudy Mangano | Joy |
| 2015 (15th) | Michael Keaton | Walter "Robbie" Robinson | Spotlight |
| 2015 (15th) | Sylvester Stallone | Robert "Rocky" Balboa | Creed |
| 2016 (16th) | Jeff Bridges | Marcus Hamilton | Hell or High Water |
| 2016 (16th) | Kevin Costner | Al Harrison | Hidden Figures |
| 2016 (16th) | Stephen McKinley Henderson | Jim Bono | Fences |
| 2016 (16th) | Issey Ogata | Inoue Masashige | Silence |
| 2016 (16th) | Timothy Spall | David Irving | Denial |
| 2017 (17th) | Richard Jenkins | Giles | The Shape of Water |
| 2017 (17th) | Willem Dafoe | Bobby Hicks | The Florida Project |
| 2017 (17th) | Laurence Fishburne | Richard Mueller | Last Flag Flying |
| 2017 (17th) | Woody Harrelson | Bill Willoughby | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri |
| 2017 (17th) | Christopher Plummer | J. Paul Getty | All the Money in the World |
| 2018 (18th) | Richard E. Grant | Jack Hock | Can You Ever Forgive Me? |
| 2018 (18th) | Robert Duvall | Tom Mulligan | Widows |
| 2018 (18th) | Sam Elliott | Bobby Maine | A Star is Born |
| 2018 (18th) | Robert Forster | Norbert Everhardt | What They Had |
| 2018 (18th) | Ian McKellen | Earl of Southampton | All Is True |
| 2019 (19th) | Tom Hanks | Fred Rogers | A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood |
| 2019 (19th) | Jamie Foxx | Walter McMillian | Just Mercy |
| 2019 (19th) | Anthony Hopkins | Pope Benedict XVI | The Two Popes |
| 2019 (19th) | Al Pacino | Jimmy Hoffa | The Irishman |
| 2019 (19th) | Brad Pitt | Cliff Booth | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood |

### 2020s

| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film |
| 2020 (20th) | Demián Bichir | Miguel Borrás | Land |
| 2020 (20th) | Bill Murray | Felix Keane | On the Rocks |
| 2020 (20th) | Clarke Peters | Otis | Da 5 Bloods |
| 2020 (20th) | Paul Raci | Joe | Sound of Metal |
| 2020 (20th) | Mark Rylance | William Kunstler | The Trial of the Chicago 7 |
| 2021 (21st) | Jared Leto | Paolo Gucci | House of Gucci |
| 2021 (21st) | Ciarán Hinds | "Pop" | Belfast |
| 2021 (21st) | J.K. Simmons | William Frawley | Being the Ricardos |
| 2021 (21st) | Timothy Spall | Equerry Major Alistair Gregory | Spencer |
| 2021 (21st) | David Strathairn | Pete Krumbein | Nightmare Alley |
| 2022 (22nd) | Judd Hirsch | Boris Podgorny | The Fabelmans |
| 2022 (22nd) | Andre Braugher | Dean Baquet | She Said |
| 2022 (22nd) | Brendan Gleeson | Colm Doherty | The Banshees of Inisherin |
| 2022 (22nd) | Woody Harrelson | sjökapten | Triangle of Sadness |
| 2022 (22nd) | Ke Huy Quan | Waymond Wang | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| 2023 (23rd) | Robert De Niro | William King Hale | Killers of the Flower Moon |
| 2023 (23rd) | Willem Dafoe | Dr. Godwin Baxter | Poor Things |
| 2023 (23rd) | Colman Domingo | Albert "Mister" Johnson | The Color Purple |
| 2023 (23rd) | Robert Downey Jr. | Lewis Strauss | Oppenheimer |
| 2023 (23rd) | Mark Ruffalo | Duncan Wedderburn | Poor Things |
| 2024 (24th) | Peter Sarsgaard | Roone Arledge | September 5 |
| 2024 (24th) | Clarence Maclin | Himself | Sing Sing |
| 2024 (24th) | Guy Pearce | Harrison Lee Van Buren | The Brutalist |
| 2024 (24th) | Stanley Tucci | Cardinal Aldo Bellini | Conclave |
| 2024 (24th) | Denzel Washington | Macrinus | Gladiator II |

## Actors with multiple nominations

The following individuals received multiple Best Supporting Actor nominations:
| Nominations | Actor |
| 3 | Robert De Niro |
| 3 | John Goodman |
| 3 | Bill Murray |
| 3 | Christopher Plummer |
| 2 | Kevin Costner |
| 2 | Willem Dafoe |
| 2 | Robert Duvall |
| 2 | Woody Harrelson |
| 2 | Ben Kingsley |
| 2 | John Malkovich |
| 2 | Mark Rylance |
| 2 | J.K. Simmons |
| 2 | Timothy Spall |
| 2 | Christoph Waltz |
| 2 | Tom Wilkinson |

## Age superlatives

| Record | Actor | Film | Age (in years) |
| Oldest winner | Judd Hirsch | The Fabelmans | 87 |
| Oldest nominee | Christopher Plummer | All the Money in the World | 88 |
| Youngest winner | Alec Baldwin | It's Complicated | 51 |
| Youngest nominee | Jared Leto | House of Gucci | 50 |