‘Green Book,’ ROMA’ lead AARP Movies for Grownups nominations

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Green Book and ROMA lead the 18th AARP Movies for Grownups nominations with four apiece. Both films will compete in the Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups category along with A Star Is Born, BlacKkKlansman and Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Nicole Kidman is a double nominee here, earning mentions in Best Actress for Destroyer and Supporting Actress for Boy Erased. She’ll go up against her Practical Magic co-star Sandra Bullock (Bird Box) in Best Actress along with Viola Davis (Widows), Julia Roberts (Ben Is Back) and the only non-Oscar winner of the bunch, Glenn Close (The Wife).

Here is the full list of nominations for the 18th annual Movies for Grownups Awards, who will announce their winners on February 4th at the Beverly Wilshire, with Martin Short hosting. PBS will air the ceremony on February 15th.

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

Best Actress
Sandra Bullock (Bird Box)
Glenn Close (The Wife)
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)
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)
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?)
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)

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?)
Paul Schrader (First Reformed)

Best Ensemble
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
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

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

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

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

Best Foreign Film
Cold War (Poland, France, U.K.)
Never Look Away (Germany)
ROMA (Mexico)
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.

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