AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Grownup Love Story

AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Grownup Love Story
Awarded forBest romance for an audience of people 50 and above
CountryUnited States
Presented byAARP
First awarded2003 (for films released during the 2002 film season)
Most recent winnerDaryl McCormack and Emma Thompson
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)
Websitehttps://www.aarp.org/entertainment/movies-for-grownups/

The AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Grownup Love Story is one of the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards presented annually by AARP the Magazine. The award honors the film with the best romance focused on adult characters, usually focusing on characters or performers over the age of 50.[1] The award for Best Grownup Love Story was first given in 2003, when the awards expanded beyond their initial four categories of Best Movie for Grownups, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress.[2]

Despite its name, the award recognizes performers who portray the love story onscreen, not the film's screenwriter.[3] While AARP the Magazine typically limits its winners and nominees to films by and about people over 50, there have been ten films nominated for Best Grownup Love Story whose romantic leads were both below that age: The Painted Veil, J. Edgar, Before Midnight, Carol, Breathe, The Greatest Showman, On the Basis of Sex, Emma., Wild Mountain Thyme, and Lady Chatterley's Lover. To date, The Greatest Showman is the only winner of Best Grownup Love Story in which all romantic leads were below the age of 50.[4]

Winners and Nominees

  indicates the winners.

2000s

Emma Thompson's nomination for Love Actually made her the first performer nominated for Best Grownup Love Story while under the age of 50.
The Emperor penguins from March of the Penguins are the only nominees from a documentary, and the only non-human nominees.
Year Performers Film Ref.
2002
(2nd) 		Vanessa Redgrave and Albert Finney The Gathering Storm ‡ [5]
Ellen Burstyn and James Garner Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Susan Sarandon and Dustin Hoffman Moonlight Mile
Jill Clayburgh and Jeffrey Tambor Never Again
2003
(3rd) 		Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson Something's Gotta Give ‡ [6]
Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman Love Actually
Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy A Mighty Wind
2004
(4th) 		Gena Rowlands and James Garner The Notebook ‡ [7]
Helen Mirren and Robert Redford The Clearing
Marg Helgenberger and Dennis Quaid In Good Company
Susan Sarandon and Richard Gere Shall We Dance?
2005
(5th) 		Diane Keaton and Craig T. Nelson The Family Stone ‡ [8]
Joan Allen and Kevin Costner The Upside of Anger
Olympia Dukakis and Peter Falk The Thing About My Folks
Rene Russo and Al Pacino Two for the Money
The penguin pairs March of the Penguins
2006
(6th) 		Blythe Danner and Tom Wilkinson The Last Kiss ‡ [9]
Louise Fletcher and Donald Sutherland Aurora Borealis
Sally Kellerman and Len Cariou Boynton Beach Club
Kristin Scott Thomas and Rowan Atkinson Keeping Mum
Naomi Watts and Edward Norton The Painted Veil
2007
(7th) 		John Travolta and Christopher Walken Hairspray ‡ [10]
2008
(8th) 		Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman Last Chance Harvey [11]
Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan Mamma Mia!
Diane Lane and Richard Gere Nights in Rodanthe
Karen Allen and Harrison Ford Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Mary Steenburgen and Richard Jenkins Step Brothers
2009
(9th) 		Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci Julie & Julia ‡ [12]
Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer The Last Station
Imelda Staunton and Henry Goodman Taking Woodstock
Marcia Gay Harden and Daniel Stern Whip It
Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin It's Complicated

2010s

Julianne Moore has been nominated twice for lesbian romances, in The Kids Are All Right and Freeheld.
Meryl Streep has been nominated a record six times, including twice in 2009 for It's Complicated and Julie & Julia, for which she won alongside Stanley Tucci.
Diane Keaton has won three of the four times she was nominated.
Year Performers Film Ref.
2010
(10th) 		Annette Bening and Julianne Moore The Kids Are All Right ‡ [13]
Blythe Danner and Richard Dreyfuss The Lightkeepers
Julianna Margulies and Andy Garcia City Island
Ruth Sheen and Jim Broadbent Another Year
Naomi Watts and Sean Penn Fair Game
2011
(11th) 		Meryl Streep and Jim Broadbent The Iron Lady ‡ [14]
Emily Watson and Peter Mullan War Horse
Jodie Foster and Mel Gibson The Beaver
Leonardo DiCaprio and Armie Hammer J. Edgar
2012
(12th) 		Helen Mirren and Anthony Hopkins Hitchcock ‡ [15]
Tom Wilkinson and Rajendra Gupta The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones Hope Springs
Sally Field and Daniel Day-Lewis Lincoln
Maggie Smith and Tom Courtenay Quartet
2013
(13th) 		Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini Enough Said ‡ [16]
Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke Before Midnight
Oprah Winfrey and Forest Whitaker Lee Daniels' The Butler
Geneviève Bujold and James Cromwell Still Mine
Vanessa Redgrave and Terence Stamp Song for Marion
2014
(14th) 		John Lithgow and Alfred Molina Love Is Strange ‡ [17]
Diane Keaton and Michael Douglas And So it Goes
Helen Mirren and Om Puri The Hundred-Foot Journey
Kristin Scott Thomas and Kevin Kline My Old Lady
Lindsay Duncan and Jim Broadbent Le Week-End
2015
(15th) 		Diane Keaton and Morgan Freeman 5 Flights Up ‡ [18][19]
Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay 45 Years
Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara Carol
Julianne Moore and Elliot Page Freeheld
Blythe Danner and Sam Elliott I'll See You in My Dreams
2016
(16th) 		Margo Martindale and Richard Jenkins The Hollars ‡ [20]
Viola Davis and Denzel Washington Fences
Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant Florence Foster Jenkins
Lainie Kazan and Michael Constantine My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Susan Sarandon and J.K. Simmons The Meddler
2017
(17th) 		Michelle Williams and Hugh Jackman The Greatest Showman ‡ [21]
Claire Foy and Andrew Garfield Breathe
Annette Bening and Jamie Bell Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland The Leisure Seeker
Jane Fonda and Robert Redford Our Souls at Night
2018
(18th) 		Blythe Danner and Robert Forster What They Had [22]
Judi Dench and Kenneth Branagh All is True
Felicity Jones and Armie Hammer On the Basis of Sex
Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti Private Life
Sissy Spacek and Robert Redford The Old Man & the Gun
2019
(19th) 		No award was given for Best Grownup Love Story for 2019. N/A [23]

2020s

Year Performers Film Ref.
2020/21
(20th) 		Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci Supernova ‡ [24]
Anya Taylor-Joy and Johnny Flynn Emma.
Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson Ordinary Love
Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan Wild Mountain Thyme
Talia Shire and Peter Gerety Working Man
2021
(21st) 		Haley Bennett and Peter Dinklage Cyrano‡ [25][26]
Dave Johns and Alison Steadman 23 Walks
Caitríona Balfe & Jamie Dornan and Ciarán Hinds & Judi Dench Belfast
Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren The Duke
Frances McDormand and Denzel Washington The Tragedy of Macbeth
2022
(22nd) 		Daryl McCormack and Emma Thompson Good Luck to You, Leo Grande‡
Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward Empire of Light [27]
Emma Corrin and Jack O'Connell Lady Chatterley's Lover
Dale Dickey and Wes Studi A Love Song
George Clooney and Julia Roberts Ticket to Paradise

Actors with multiple wins and nominations

Age superlatives

Record Performer Film Age (in years)
Oldest winner Morgan Freeman 5 Flights Up 78
Oldest nominee Michael Constantine My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 89
Youngest winner Michelle Williams The Greatest Showman 37
Youngest nominee Anya Taylor-Joy Emma. 24

References

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  27. ^ "'The Fabelmans' Leads AARP's 2023 Movies for Grownups Awards Nominees".
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