# AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Movie for Grownups

The AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Movie for Grownups is one of the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards presented annually by the AARP since the awards' inception in 2002. The award honors the best film in a given year made by or about people who are fifty years old or older. The Best Movie for Grownups Award is one of the seven original trophies issued by AARP the Magazine, along with awards for Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Foreign Film, Best Documentary, and Best Movie for Grownups Who Refuse to Grow Up.

## Winners and Nominees

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### 2000s

| Year | Film | Director | Producer/s |
| 2001 | Lantana | Ray Lawrence | Jan Chapman |
| 2001 | A Beautiful Mind | Ron Howard | Brian Grazer, Ron Howard |
| 2001 | In the Bedroom | Todd Field | Todd Field, Ross Katz, Graham Leader |
| 2001 | Iris | Richard Eyre | Robert Fox, Scott Rudin |
| 2002 | About Schmidt | Alexander Payne | Michael Besman, Harry Gittes |
| 2002 | Far from Heaven | Todd Haynes | Jody Allen, Christine Vachon |
| 2002 | The Hours | Stephen Daldry | Scott Rudin, Robert Fox |
| 2002 | The Quiet American | Phillip Noyce | Staffan Ahrenberg, William Horberg |
| 2003 | Mystic River | Clint Eastwood | Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt |
| 2003 | House of Sand and Fog | Vadim Perelman | Vadim Perelman, Michael London |
| 2003 | Lost in Translation | Sofia Coppola | Ross Katz, Sofia Coppola |
| 2003 | A Mighty Wind | Christopher Guest | Karen Murphy |
| 2003 | Seabiscuit | Gary Ross | Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Gary Ross, Jane Sindell |
| 2004 | Ray | Taylor Hackford | Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin, Howard Baldwin, Karen Baldwin |
| 2004 | The Aviator | Martin Scorsese | Michael Mann, Sandy Climan, Graham King, Charles Evans Jr. |
| 2004 | In Good Company | Paul Weitz | Lawrence Pressman, Paul Weitz |
| 2004 | Kinsey | Bill Condon | Gail Mutrux |
| 2004 | The Notebook | Nick Cassavetes | Lynn Harris, Mark Johnson |
| 2004 | Sideways | Alexander Payne | Michael London |
| 2005 | Capote | Bennett Miller | Caroline Baron, William Vince, Michael Ohoven |
| 2005 | Cinderella Man | Ron Howard | Ron Howard, Penny Marshall, Brian Grazer |
| 2005 | Crash | Paul Haggis | Don Cheadle, Paul Haggis, Mark R. Harris, Bobby Moresco, Cathy Schulman, Bob Yari |
| 2005 | Good Night, and Good Luck | George Clooney | Grant Heslov |
| 2005 | Walk the Line | James Mangold | James Keach, Cathy Konrad |
| 2006 | The Last King of Scotland | Kevin Macdonald | Charles Steel, Lisa Bryer, Andrea Calderwood |
| 2006 | Aurora Borealis | James C.E. Burke | Scott Disharoon |
| 2006 | Flags of Our Fathers | Clint Eastwood | Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Steven Spielberg |
| 2006 | The Illusionist | Neil Burger | Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Michael London, Cathy Schulman, Bob Yari |
| 2006 | Letters from Iwo Jima | Clint Eastwood | Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Steven Spielberg |
| 2006 | Little Miss Sunshine | Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris | Marc Turtletaub, David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa |
| 2006 | The Queen | Stephen Frears | Andy Harries, Christine Langan, Tracey Seaward |
| 2007 | The Savages | Tamara Jenkins | Ted Hope, Anne Carey, Erica Westheimer |
| 2007 | Atonement | Joe Wright | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster |
| 2007 | The Bucket List | Rob Reiner | Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, Alan Greisman, Rob Reiner |
| 2007 | The Kite Runner | Marc Forster | William Horberg, Walter F. Parkes, Rebecca Yeldham, E. Bennett Walsh |
| 2007 | Michael Clayton | Tony Gilroy | Sydney Pollack, Steven Samuels, Jennifer Fox, Kerry Orent |
| 2008 | Frost/Nixon | Ron Howard | Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner |
| 2008 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | David Fincher | Ceán Chaffin, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall |
| 2008 | Doubt | John Patrick Shanley | Scott Rudin |
| 2008 | Married Life | Ira Sachs | Ira Sachs, Steve Golin, Sidney Kimmel, Jawal Nga |
| 2008 | The Wrestler | Darren Aronofsky | Darren Aronofsky, Scott Franklin |
| 2009 | Invictus | Clint Eastwood | Clint Eastwood, Lori McCreary, Robert Lorenz, Mace Neufeld |
| 2009 | Crazy Heart | Scott Cooper | Robert Duvall, Robert Carliner, Judy Cairo, T Bone Burnett, Scott Cooper |
| 2009 | Julie & Julia | Nora Ephron | Nora Ephron, Laurence Mark, Eric Steel, Amy Robinson |
| 2009 | Up | Pete Docter | Jonas Rivera |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Jason Reitman | Daniel Dubiecki, Jeffrey Clifford, Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Director | Producer/s |
| 2010 | The King's Speech | Tom Hooper | Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin |
| 2010 | Another Year | Mike Leigh | Georgina Lowe |
| 2010 | Casino Jack | George Hickenlooper | Gary Howsam, Bill Marks, George Zakk |
| 2010 | City Island | Raymond De Felitta | Raymond De Felitta, Andy Garcia, Lauren Versel, Zachary Matz |
| 2010 | The Company Men | John Wells | John Wells, Paula Weinstein, Claire Rudnick Polstein |
| 2010 | Get Low | Aaron Schneider | Dean Zanuck, David Gundlach |
| 2010 | The Kids Are All Right | Lisa Cholodenko | Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, Celine Rattray, Jordan Horowitz, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Philippe Hellman, Joel Newton |
| 2010 | Letters to Juliet | Gary Winick | Caroline Kaplan, Ellen Barkin, Mark Canton |
| 2010 | Red | Robert Schwentke | Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian |
| 2010 | Secretariat | Randall Wallace | Mark Ciardi, Gordon Gray |
| 2011 | The Descendants | Alexander Payne | Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor |
| 2011 | The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius | Thomas Langmann |
| 2011 | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Stephen Daldry | Scott Rudin |
| 2011 | Midnight in Paris | Woody Allen | Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum, Jaume Roures |
| 2011 | War Horse | Steven Spielberg | Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy |
| 2011 | Win Win | Tom McCarthy | Mary Jane Skalski, Michael London, Lisa Marie Falcone, Tom McCarthy |
| 2012 | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | John Madden | Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin |
| 2012 | Hitchcock | Sacha Gervasi | Ivan Reitman, Tom Pollock, Joe Medjuck, Tom Thayer, Alan Barnette |
| 2012 | Lincoln | Steven Spielberg | Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy |
| 2012 | Les Misérables | Tom Hooper | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh |
| 2012 | The Sessions | Ben Lewin | Judi Levine, Stephen Nemeth, Ben Lewin |
| 2013 | 12 Years a Slave | Steve McQueen | Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Bill Pohlad, Steve McQueen, Arnon Milchan, Anthony Katagas |
| 2013 | All Is Lost | J.C. Chandor | Justin Nappi, Teddy Schwarzman, Neal Dodson, Anna Gerb |
| 2013 | Captain Phillips | Paul Greengrass | Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca |
| 2013 | Nebraska | Alexander Payne | Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa |
| 2013 | Philomena | Stephen Frears | Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, Tracey Seaward |
| 2013 | Saving Mr. Banks | John Lee Hancock | Alison Owen, Ian Collie, Philip Steuer |
| 2014 | The Theory of Everything | James Marsh | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten |
| 2014 | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole |
| 2014 | Boyhood | Richard Linklater | Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland, Jonathan Sehring, John Sloss |
| 2014 | The Imitation Game | Morten Tyldum | Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman |
| 2014 | Love Is Strange | Ira Sachs | Lucas Joaquin, Lars Knudsen, Ira Sachs, Jayne Baron Sherman, Jay Van Hoy |
| 2015 | Spotlight | Tom McCarthy | Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, Michael Sugar |
| 2015 | Brooklyn | John Crowley | Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer |
| 2015 | Joy | David O. Russell | John Davis, Megan Ellison, Jonathan Gordon |
| 2015 | Love & Mercy | Bill Pohlad | Bill Pohlad, Claire Rudnick Polstein, John Wells |
| 2015 | The Martian | Ridley Scott | Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer, Mark Huffam |
| 2016 | Loving | Jeff Nichols | Ged Doherty, Colin Firth, Nancy Buirski, Sarah Green (film producer), Marc Turtletaub, Peter Saraf |
| 2016 | La La Land | Damien Chazelle | Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, Gary Gilbert, Marc Platt |
| 2016 | Lion | Garth Davis | Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Angie Fielder |
| 2016 | Manchester by the Sea | Kenneth Lonergan | Matt Damon, Kimberly Steward, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck, Kevin J. Walsh |
| 2016 | Silence | Martin Scorsese | Barbara De Fina, Randall Emmett, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Gastón Pavlovich, Martin Scorsese, Irwin Winkler |
| 2016 | Sully | Clint Eastwood | Clint Eastwood, Frank Marshall, Tim Moore, Allyn Stewart |
| 2017 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | Rian Johnson | Kathleen Kennedy, Ram Bergman |
| 2017 | Get Out | Jordan Peele | Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr., Jordan Peele |
| 2017 | Lady Bird | Greta Gerwig | Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Evelyn O'Neill |
| 2017 | The Shape of Water | Guillermo del Toro | Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale |
| 2017 | Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri | Martin McDonagh | Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, Martin McDonagh |
| 2018 | Green Book | Peter Farrelly | Jim Burke, Brian Hayes Curie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, Charles B. Wessler |
| 2018 | BlacKkKlansman | Spike Lee | Jason Blum, Spike Lee, Raymond Mansfield, Sean McKittrick, Jordan Peele, Shaun Redick |
| 2018 | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Marielle Heller | Anne Carey, Amy Nauiokas, David Yarnell |
| 2018 | Roma | Alfonso Cuaron | Gabriela Rodríguez, Alfonso Cuaron, Nicolás Celis |
| 2018 | A Star Is Born | Bradley Cooper | Bill Gerber, Jon Peters, Bradley Cooper, Todd Phillips, Lynette Howell Taylor |
| 2019 | The Irishman | Martin Scorsese | Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Irwin Winkler, Gerard Chamales, Gastón Pavlovich, Randall Emmett, Gabriele Israilovici |
| 2019 | A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | Marielle Heller | Youree Henley, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub, Leah Holzer |
| 2019 | Bombshell | Jay Roach | Aaron L. Gilbert, Jay Roach, Robert Graf, Michelle Graham, Charles Randolph, Margaret Riley, Charlize Theron, A.J. Dix, Beth Kono |
| 2019 | The Farewell | Lulu Wang | Daniele Melia, Marc Turtletaub, Peter Saraf, Andrew Miano, Chris Weitz, Jane Zheng, Lulu Wang, Anita Gou |
| 2019 | Little Women | Greta Gerwig | Amy Pascal, Denise Di Novi, Robin Swicord |
| 2019 | Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach | David Heyman, Noah Baumbach |
| 2019 | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Quentin Tarantino | David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh, Quentin Tarantino |
| 2019 | The Two Popes | Fernando Meirelles | Dan Lin, Jonathan Eirich, Tracey Seaward |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Director | Producer/s |
| 2020 | The United States vs. Billie Holiday | Lee Daniels | Lee Daniels, Jordan Fudge, Tucker Tooley, Joe Roth, Jeff Kirschenbaum, Pamela Oas Williams |
| 2020 | Minari | Lee Isaac Chung | Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Christina Oh |
| 2020 | Nomadland | Chloé Zhao | Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Chloé Zhao |
| 2020 | One Night in Miami... | Regina King | Jess Wu Calder, Keith Calder, Jody Klein |
| 2020 | The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Aaron Sorkin | Stuart M. Besser, Matt Jackson, Marc Platt, Tyler Thompson |
| 2021 | Belfast | Kenneth Branagh | Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik, Tamar Thomas |
| 2021 | Being the Ricardos | Aaron Sorkin | Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch |
| 2021 | King Richard | Reinaldo Marcus Green | Tim White, Trevor White, Will Smith |
| 2021 | The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion | Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian |
| 2021 | West Side Story | Steven Spielberg | Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Kevin McCollum |
| 2022 | Top Gun: Maverick | Joseph Kosinski | Jerry Bruckheimer, Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison |
| 2022 | Elvis | Baz Luhrmann | Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormack, Schuyler Weiss |
| 2022 | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinart | Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Mike Larocca, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinart, Jonathan Wang |
| 2022 | The Fabelmans | Steven Spielberg | Kristie Macosko Krieger, Tony Kushner, Steven Spielberg |
| 2022 | TÁR | Todd Field | Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan, Scott Lambert |
| 2022 | The Woman King | Gina Prince-Bythewood | Cathy Schulman, Viola Davis, Julius Tennon, Maria Bello |
| 2022 | Women Talking | Sarah Polley | Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Frances McDormand |
| 2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon | Martin Scorsese | Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Martin Scorsese, Daniel Lupi |
| 2023 | Barbie | Greta Gerwig | David Heyman, Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley, Robbie Brenner |
| 2023 | The Color Purple | Blitz Bazawule | Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Scott Sanders, Quincy Jones |
| 2023 | Maestro | Bradley Cooper | Bradley Cooper, Steven Spielberg, Fred Berner, Amy Durning, Kristie Macosko Krieger |
| 2023 | Oppenheimer | Christopher Nolan | Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, Christopher Nolan |
| 2024 | A Complete Unknown | James Mangold | Fred Berger, James Mangold, Alex Heineman |
| 2024 | Conclave | Edward Berger | Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Michael A. Jackman |
| 2024 | Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard | Pascal Caucheteux, Jacques Audiard |
| 2024 | Gladiator II | Ridley Scott | Ridley Scott, Michael Pruss, Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher, David Franzoni |
| 2024 | September 5 | Tim Fehlbaum | Philipp Trauer, Thomas Wöbke, Tim Fehlbaum, Sean Penn, John Ira Palmer, John Wildermuth |