AARP Movies For Grownups Awards 2025: Complete list of winners explored 

2026 Annual Movies for Grownups Awards with AARP - Show - Source: Getty
2026 Annual Movies for Grownups Awards with AARP - Show - Source: Getty

The AARP Movies For Grownups Awards announced their winners for the year’s awards on January 10. The winners for AARP Movies For Grownups Awards were announced for around 15 categories, including Best Movie, Actor, Actress, Screenwriter, Ensemble, Period Film, and more. The award ceremony was held at the Beverly Wilshire.

Popular releases from last year like Hamnet, One Battle After Another, Jay Kelly, Sinners, Sentimental Value, and more bagged the AARP Movies For Grownups Awards across different categories. Furthermore, Period Film and Documentary, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere and My Mom Jayne, won awards in their respective categories.


List of winners for AARP Movies For Grownups Awards

Here’s the complete list of winners and nominees for the year’s AARP Movies For Grownups Awards:

Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups

  • Hamnet (WINNER)
  • A House of Dynamite
  • One Battle After Another
  • Sinners
  • Train Dreams

Best Actress

  • Laura Dern (Is This Thing On?) (WINNER)
  • Jodie Foster (A Private Life)
  • Lucy Liu (Rosemead)
  • Julia Roberts (After the Hunt)
  • June Squibb (Eleanor the Great)

Best Actor

  • George Clooney (Jay Kelly) (WINNER)
  • Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another)
  • Joel Edgerton (Train Dreams)
  • Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon)
  • Dwayne Johnson (The Smashing Machine)

Best Supporting Actress

  • Regina Hall (One Battle After Another) (WINNER)
  • Amy Madigan (Weapons)
  • Helen Mirren (Goodbye June)
  • Gwyneth Paltrow (Marty Supreme)
  • Sigourney Weaver (Avatar: Fire and Ash)

Best Supporting Actor

  • Benicio Del Toro (One Battle After Another)
  • Delroy Lindo (Sinners) (WINNER)
  • Sean Penn (One Battle After Another)
  • Michael Shannon (Nuremberg)
  • Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value)

Best Director

  • Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)
  • Kathryn Bigelow (A House of Dynamite)
  • Scott Cooper (Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere)
  • Guillermo del Toro (Frankenstein) (WINNER)
  • Spike Lee (Highest 2 Lowest)

Best Screenwriter

  • Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another) (WINNER)
  • Noah Baumbach and Emily Mortimer (Jay Kelly)
  • Bradley Cooper, Will Arnett and Mark Chappell (Is This Thing On?)
  • Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale)
  • James Vanderbilt (Nuremberg)

Best Ensemble

  • A House of Dynamite
  • Jay Kelly
  • Nuremberg
  • One Battle After Another (WINNER)
  • Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Best Intergenerational Film

  • Eleanor the Great
  • The Lost Bus
  • Rental Family
  • Rosemead
  • Sentimental Value (WINNER)

Best Period Film

  • Dead Man’s Wire
  • Marty Supreme
  • Nuremberg
  • Sinners
  • Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (WINNER)

Best Documentary

  • Becoming Led Zeppelin
  • Cover-Up
  • My Mom Jayne (WINNER)
  • Riefenstahl
  • Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost

Best Foreign-Language Film

  • It Was Just an Accident
  • No Other Choice
  • Nouvelle Vague
  • The Secret Agent
  • Sentimental Value (WINNER)

Best TV Series or Limited Series

  • Adolescence
  • Hacks
  • The Pitt (WINNER)
  • The Studio
  • The White Lotus

Best Actor (TV)

  • Walton Goggins (The White Lotus)
  • Stephen Graham (Adolescence)
  • Gary Oldman (Slow Horses)
  • Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us)
  • Noah Wyle (The Pitt) (WINNER)

Best Actress (TV)

  • Kathy Bates (Matlock) (WINNER)
  • Kathryn Hahn (The Studio)
  • Catherine O’Hara (The Studio)
  • Parker Posey (The White Lotus)
  • Jean Smart (Hacks)

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Edited by Sarah Nazamuddin Harniswala