# AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Supporting Actress

The AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards presented annually by the AARP. The award honors an actress over the age of 50 who has given an outstanding supporting performance in a film in a given year. The awards for Supporting Actress and Supporting Actor 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

    indicates the winners.

### 2000s

| Year | Actress | Role(s) | Film |
| 2007 (7th) | Ruby Dee ‡ | Mama Lucas | American Gangster |
| 2007 (7th) | Jane Asher | Sandra | Death at a Funeral |
| 2007 (7th) | Olympia Dukakis | Marian | Away from Her |
| 2007 (7th) | Fernanda Montenegro | Tránsito Ariza | Love in the Time of Cholera |
| 2007 (7th) | Vanessa Redgrave | Briony Tallis | Atonement |
| 2008 (8th) | Christine Baranski ‡ (tie) | Tanya Chesham-Leigh | Mamma Mia! |
| 2008 (8th) | Julie Walters ‡ (tie) | Rosie Mulligan | Mamma Mia! |
| 2008 (8th) | Kim Cattrall | Samantha Jones | Sex and the City |
| 2008 (8th) | Bette Midler | Bernice Graves | Then She Found Me |
| 2008 (8th) | Debra Winger | Abby Buchman | Rachel Getting Married |
| 2008 (8th) | Cloris Leachman | Maggie | The Women |
| 2009 (9th) | Kim Basinger ‡ | Gina | The Burning Plain |
| 2009 (9th) | Judi Dench | Liliane La Fleur | Nine |
| 2009 (9th) | Marcia Gay Harden | Brooke Cavendar | Whip It |
| 2009 (9th) | Susan Sarandon | Grandma Lynn | The Lovely Bones |
| 2009 (9th) | Imelda Staunton | Sonia Teichberg | Taking Woodstock |

### 2010s

| Year | Actress | Role(s) | Film | Ref. |
| 2010 (10th) | Phylicia Rashad ‡ | Gilda ("Lady in Black") | For Colored Girls | |
| 2010 (10th) | Gemma Jones | Helena Shepridge | You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger | |
| 2010 (10th) | Diane Keaton | Colleen Peck | Morning Glory | |
| 2010 (10th) | Melissa Leo | Alice Eklund-Ward | The Fighter | |
| 2010 (10th) | Sissy Spacek | Mattie Darrow | Get Low | |
| 2011 (11th) | Vanessa Redgrave ‡ | Volumnia | Coriolanus | |
| 2011 (11th) | Ellen Burstyn | Doris | Another Happy Day | |
| 2011 (11th) | Judi Dench | Anna Marie Hoover | J. Edgar | |
| 2011 (11th) | Allison Janney | Charlotte Phelan | The Help | |
| 2011 (11th) | Janet McTeer | Hubert Page | Albert Nobbs | |
| 2012 (12th) | Jacki Weaver ‡ | Dolores Solitano | Silver Linings Playbook | |
| 2012 (12th) | Sally Field | Mary Todd Lincoln | Lincoln | |
| 2012 (12th) | Catherine Keener | Juliette Gelbart | A Late Quartet | |
| 2012 (12th) | Shirley MacLaine | Marjorie "Margie" Nugent | Bernie | |
| 2012 (12th) | Frances McDormand | Sue Thomason | Promised Land | |
| 2013 (13th) | Oprah Winfrey ‡ | Gloria Gaines | Lee Daniels' The Butler | |
| 2013 (13th) | Allison Janney | Betty Thompson | The Way Way Back | |
| 2013 (13th) | Margo Martindale | Mattie Fae Aiken | August: Osage County | |
| 2013 (13th) | Julianne Moore | Esther | Don Jon | |
| 2013 (13th) | June Squibb | Kate Grant | Nebraska | |
| 2014 (14th) | Rene Russo ‡ | Nina Romina | Nightcrawler | [11] [12] |
| 2014 (14th) | Susan Sarandon | Florence Aadland | The Last of Robin Hood | [11] [12] |
| 2014 (14th) | Meryl Streep | The Witch | Into the Woods | [11] [12] |
| 2014 (14th) | Marisa Tomei | Kate Hull | Love is Strange | [11] [12] |
| 2014 (14th) | Laura Dern | Bobbi Grey | Wild | [11] [12] |
| 2015 (15th) | Diane Ladd ‡ | Mimi | Joy | [13] [14] |
| 2015 (15th) | Joan Allen | Nancy Newsome | Room | [13] [14] |
| 2015 (15th) | Jane Fonda | Brenda Morel | Youth | [13] [14] |
| 2015 (15th) | Helen Mirren | Hedda Hopper | Trumbo | [13] [14] |
| 2015 (15th) | Cynthia Nixon | Gail White | James White | [13] [14] |
| 2016 (16th) | Viola Davis ‡ | Rose Lee Maxson | Fences | |
| 2016 (16th) | Nicole Kidman | Sue Brierly | Lion | |
| 2016 (16th) | Helen Mirren | Col. Katherine Powell | Eye in the Sky | |
| 2016 (16th) | Molly Shannon | Joanne Mulcahey | Other People | |
| 2016 (16th) | Sigourney Weaver | Mrs. Clayton / Grandma | A Monster Calls | |
| 2017 (17th) | Laurie Metcalf ‡ | Marion McPherson | Lady Bird | |
| 2017 (17th) | Holly Hunter | Beth Gardner | The Big Sick | |
| 2017 (17th) | Allison Janney | LaVona Golden | I, Tonya | |
| 2017 (17th) | Melissa Leo | Reverend Mother Marie Saint-Clair | Novitiate | |
| 2017 (17th) | Lesley Manville | Cyril Woodcock | Phantom Thread | |
| 2018 (18th) | Judi Dench ‡ | Anne Hathaway | All Is True | [17] [18] |
| 2018 (18th) | Angela Bassett | Ramonda | Black Panther | [17] [18] |
| 2018 (18th) | Blythe Danner | Ruth Everhardt | What They Had | [17] [18] |
| 2018 (18th) | Nicole Kidman | Nancy Eamons | Boy Erased | [17] [18] |
| 2018 (18th) | Michelle Yeoh | Eleanor Sung-Young | Crazy Rich Asians | [17] [18] |
| 2019 (19th) | Laura Dern ‡ | Nora Fanshaw | Marriage Story | [19] [20] |
| 2019 (19th) | Nicole Kidman | Gretchen Carlson | Bombshell | [19] [20] |
| 2019 (19th) | Jennifer Lopez | Ramona Vega | Hustlers | [19] [20] |
| 2019 (19th) | Zhao Shu-zhen | Nai Nai | The Farewell | [19] [20] |
| 2019 (19th) | Maggie Smith | Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham | Downton Abbey | [19] [20] |

### 2020s

| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film | Ref. |
| 2020 (20th) | Jodie Foster ‡ | Nancy Hollander | The Mauritanian | [21] [22] |
| 2020 (20th) | Candice Bergen | Roberta | Let Them All Talk | [21] [22] |
| 2020 (20th) | Ellen Burstyn | Elizabeth Weiss | Pieces of a Woman | [21] [22] |
| 2020 (20th) | Glenn Close | Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance | Hillbilly Elegy | [21] [22] |
| 2020 (20th) | Youn Yuh-jung | Soon-ja | Minari | [21] [22] |
| 2021 (21st) | Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor‡ | Oracene "Brandy" Price | King Richard | [23] [24] |
| 2021 (21st) | Cate Blanchett | Lilith Ritter | Nightmare Alley | [23] [24] |
| 2021 (21st) | Judi Dench | Granny | Belfast | [23] [24] |
| 2021 (21st) | Marlee Matlin | Jackie Rossi | CODA | [23] [24] |
| 2021 (21st) | Rita Moreno | Valentina | West Side Story | [23] [24] |
| 2022 (22nd) | Judith Ivey‡ | Agata | Women Talking |
| 2022 (22nd) | Angela Bassett | Ramonda | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever |
| 2022 (22nd) | Patricia Clarkson | Rebecca Corbett | She Said |
| 2022 (22nd) | Jamie Lee Curtis | Deirdre Beaubeirdre | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| 2022 (22nd) | Gabrielle Union | Inez French | The Inspection |
| 2023 (23rd) | Jodie Foster‡ | Bonnie Stoll | Nyad |
| 2023 (23rd) | Viola Davis | Deloris Jordan | Air |
| 2023 (23rd) | Taraji P. Henson | Shug Avery | The Color Purple |
| 2023 (23rd) | Julianne Moore | Gracie | May December |
| 2023 (23rd) | Leslie Uggams | Agnes Ellison | American Fiction |
| 2024 (24th) | Joan Chen‡ | Chungsing Wang | Dìdi |
| 2024 (24th) | Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor | Hattie | Nickel Boys |
| 2024 (24th) | Lesley Manville | Dr. Cotter | Queer |
| 2024 (24th) | Connie Nielsen | Lucilla | Gladiator II |
| 2024 (24th) | Isabella Rossellini | Sister Agnes | Conclave |

## Actors with multiple wins and nominations

The following individuals received multiple Best Supporting Actress nominations:

### Multiple wins

| Wins | Actor |
| 2 | Jodie Foster |

### Multiple nominations

| Nominations | Actress |
| 4 | Judi Dench |
| 3 | Allison Janney |
| 3 | Nicole Kidman |
| 2 | Angela Bassett |
| 2 | Ellen Burstyn |
| 2 | Viola Davis |
| 2 | Laura Dern |
| 2 | Jodie Foster |
| 2 | Melissa Leo |
| 2 | Helen Mirren |
| 2 | Julianne Moore |
| 2 | Vanessa Redgrave |
| 2 | Susan Sarandon |

## Age superlatives

| Record | Actress | Film | Age (in years) |
| Oldest winner | Ruby Dee | American Gangster | 85 |
| Oldest nominee | Ellen Burstyn | Pieces of a Woman | 87 |
| Youngest winner | Viola Davis | Fences | 51 |
| Youngest nominee | Nicole Kidman | Lion | 49 |