‘Green Book,’ ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ win AARP Movies for Grownups awards

Published by
Share

The 18th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards were handed out last night and nomination leader Green Book came out on top as the Best Picture/Movie for Grownups. Viggo Mortensen also won Best Actor for his role in the film.

Can You Ever Forgive Me? was also a double winner: Best Supporting Actor for Richard E. Grant and Best Screenwriter for Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty.

Spike Lee won Best Director for BlacKkKlansman, Glenn Close (The Wife) picked up another win in Best Actress and a surprise win came in Best Supporting Actress for Judi Dench (All Is True). If Beale Street Could Talk won the group’s Time Capsule award, its only nomination.

Shirley MacLaine was the recipient of the Career Achievement Award. The show will be broadcast on PBS February 15th at 9pm PST.

Here is the full list of nominees and winners.

Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups
A Star Is Born
BlacKkKlansman
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Green Book – WINNER
ROMA

Best Actress
Sandra Bullock (Bird Box)
Glenn Close (The Wife) – WINNER
Viola Davis (Widows)
Nicole Kidman (Destroyer)
Julia Roberts (Ben Is Back)

Best Actor
Willem Dafoe (At Eternity’s Gate)
Hugh Jackman (The Front Runner)
Viggo Mortensen (Green Book) – WINNER
Robert Redford (The Old Man & the Gun)
John C. Reilly (Stan & Ollie)

Best Supporting Actress
Angela Bassett (Black Panther)
Blythe Danner (What They Had)
Judi Dench (All Is True) – WINNER
Nicole Kidman (Boy Erased)
Michelle Yeoh (Crazy Rich Asians)

Best Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall (Widows)
Sam Elliott (A Star Is Born)
Robert Forster (What They Had)
Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) – WINNER
Ian McKellen (All Is True)

Best Director
Kenneth Branagh (All Is True)
Alfonso Cuarón (ROMA)
Peter Farrelly (Green Book)
Mimi Leder (On the Basis of Sex)
Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman) – WINNER

Best Screenwriter
Peter Farrelly, Brian Hayes Currie, Nick Vallelonga (Green Book)
Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara (The Favourite)
Peter Hedges (Ben Is Back)
Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) – WINNER
Paul Schrader (First Reformed)

Best Ensemble
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody – WINNER
Crazy Rich Asians
The Front Runner
Widows

Best Grownup Love Story
All Is True
On the Basis of Sex
Private Life
The Old Man & the Gun
What They Had – WINNER

Best Intergenerational Film
A Quiet Place
Beautiful Boy
Ben Is Back
Crazy Rich Asians
Mary Poppins Returns – WINNER

Best Time Capsule
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk – WINNER
ROMA

Best Documentary
Amazing Grace
Bathtubs Over Broadway
RBG
The Rest I Make Up
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? – WINNER

Best Foreign Film
Cold War (Poland, France, U.K.)
Never Look Away (Germany)
ROMA (Mexico) – WINNER
Shoplifters (Japan)
The Guilty (Denmark)

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

Recent Posts

2024 North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) Nominations

The North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) has announced nominations for its 12th annual awards,… Read More

December 21, 2024

2024 Philadelphia Film Critics Circle (PFCC) Winners: ‘Anora’ Named Best Film Among its Six Awards

Anora was the big winner from the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle (PFCC), earning six awards… Read More

December 21, 2024

2024 Utah Film Critics Association (UFCA) Nominations

The Utah Film Critics Association (UFCA) has announced its nominees for excellence in filmmaking for… Read More

December 21, 2024

2024 Black Reel Awards Nominations: ‘Nickel Boys,’ ‘The Piano Lesson’ Lead

RaMell Ross' Nickel Boys and Malcolm Washington's The Piano Lesson lead the 2024 Black Reel… Read More

December 20, 2024

2024 Online Association of Female Film Critics (OAFFC) Nominations

Conclave and The Substance lead the 2024 Online Association of Female Film Critics (OAFFC) nominations… Read More

December 20, 2024

Interview: ‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ Directors Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham on Bringing Back Two of Animation’s Most Beloved Characters [VIDEO]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pveuW8e5TmE More than 30 years ago, Nick Park introduced the world to an affable and… Read More

December 20, 2024

This website uses cookies.