25th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards

25th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards
Awarded for	Film and television by and about people over 50
Date	January 10, 2026
Site	Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Los Angeles
Hosted by	Alan Cumming
Highlights
Most nominations	One Battle After Another (8)
Television coverage
Network	PBS
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The 25th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards, presented by AARP: The Magazine , will honor films and television series released in 2025. ^[1] The nominations were announced on November 19, 2025, with One Battle After Another leading the nominations with eight. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Created by and about people over the age of 50, the winners will be announced on January 10, 2026. The ceremony will take place at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles and will be hosted by Alan Cumming. The event will later premiere on Great Performances on PBS on February 22, 2026. ^{[1] [4] [5]}

Adam Sandler will receive the Career Achievement Award. ^[6]

Awards

Nominees

Winners will be listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Picture Hamnet A House of Dynamite One Battle After Another Sinners Train Dreams	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 Spike Lee – Highest 2 Lowest
Best Actor George Clooney – Jay Kelly Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon Dwayne Johnson – The Smashing Machine	Best Actress Laura Dern – Is This Thing On? Jodie Foster – A Private Life Lucy Liu – Rosemead Julia Roberts – After the Hunt June Squibb – Eleanor the Great
Best Supporting Actor Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another Delroy Lindo – Sinners Sean Penn – One Battle After Another Michael Shannon – Nuremberg Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value	Best Supporting Actress Regina Hall – One Battle After Another Amy Madigan – Weapons Helen Mirren – Goodbye June Gwyneth Paltrow – Marty Supreme Sigourney Weaver – Avatar: Fire and Ash
Best Screenwriter Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another 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 Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Best Documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin Cover-Up My Mom Jayne 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
Best Intergenerational Film Eleanor the Great The Lost Bus Rental Family Rosemead Sentimental Value	Best Period Film Dead Man's Wire Marty Supreme Nuremberg Sinners Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
Best TV Series or Limited Series Adolescence Hacks The Pitt 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	Best Actress (TV) Kathy Bates – Matlock Kathryn Hahn – The Studio Catherine O'Hara – The Studio Parker Posey – The White Lotus Jean Smart – Hacks

Multiple nominations

Films with multiple nominations Films that received multiple nominations Nominations Film 8 One Battle After Another 4 Nuremberg 3 A House of Dynamite Jay Kelly Sentimental Value Sinners 2 Eleanor the Great Is This Thing On? Marty Supreme Rosemead Springsteen Train Dreams

Series with multiple nominations Series that received multiple nominations Nominations Series 3 The Studio The White Lotus 2 Adolescence Hacks The Pitt

References

1. Nashawaty, Chris (November 19, 2025). "Announcing AARP's Movies for Grownups Awards Nominees". AARP . Retrieved November 20, 2025.
2. Hammond, Pete (November 19, 2025). "'One Battle After Another', 'Hamnet', 'A House of Dynamite' Among AARP's Movies for Grownups Best Picture Nominees". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved November 20, 2025.
3. Levy, Giana (November 19, 2025). "'Sinners', 'One Battle After Another', and 'Hamnet' Among AARP Movies for Grownups 2025 Best Picture Nominees". Variety . Retrieved November 20, 2025.
4. Grein, Paul (October 22, 2025). "Alan Cumming to Return as Host of 2026 Movies for Grownups Awards: Here's the Date". Billboard . Retrieved November 20, 2025.
5. Sharpe, Josh (October 22, 2025). "Alan Cumming to Host AARP's 'Movies for Grownups Awards' in 2026". BroadwayWorld . Retrieved November 20, 2025.
6. Barrineau, Trey (November 5, 2025). "Adam Sandler Will Win Movies for Grownups Career Achievement Award". AARP . Retrieved November 20, 2025.

External links

• Official website