4th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards

4th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards
Date	January 30, 2005
Highlights
Most nominations	The Notebook (4)
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The 4th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards , presented by AARP the Magazine , honored films released in 2004 made by people over the age of 50. This was the last year that the awards were announced by the magazine without an in-person awards ceremony. ^[1] Lynn Redgrave won the award for Breakaway Performance for Kinsey . ^[2] This year's ceremony also featured a number of noncompetitive, less-serious awards, such as the "Who's Your Daddy? Romantic Gap Prize" for the movie with the most implausible age gap in a romantic pair. This was the last year for which there was no in-person awards ceremony; instead, winners were sent a trophy in the shape of a golden theater seat, called La Chaise d'Or. ^[3]

Awards

Winners and Nominees

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡). ^{[4] [5] [6]}

Best Movie for Grownups Ray ‡ The Aviator In Good Company The Notebook Sideways	Best Director Mike Nichols  – Closer ‡ Clint Eastwood  - Million Dollar Baby Taylor Hackford  - Ray Michael Mann  - Collateral Martin Scorsese  - The Aviator Ousmane Sembène  - Moolaadé
Best Actor Liam Neeson  - Kinsey ‡ Jeff Bridges  - The Door in the Floor Richard Gere  - Shall We Dance? Dennis Quaid  - In Good Company Kurt Russell  - Miracle Omar Sharif  - Monsieur Ibrahim	Best Actress Anne Reid  - The Mother ‡ Cloris Leachman  - Spanglish Gena Rowlands  - The Notebook Susan Sarandon  - Shall We Dance? Meryl Streep  - The Manchurian Candidate Lily Tomlin  - I Heart Huckabees
Best Screenwriter Alvin Sargent  - Spider-Man 2 ‡ Pedro Almodóvar  - Bad Education James L. Brooks  - Spanglish Paul Haggis and F.X. Toole  - Million Dollar Baby	Best Time Capsule De-Lovely ‡ The Aviator Beyond the Sea The Notebook Vera Drake
Best Intergenerational Film Miracle ‡ Baadasssss! Monsieur Ibrahim The Five Obstructions Spanglish	Best Grownup Love Story James Garner and Gena Rowlands  - The Notebook ‡ Robert Redford and Helen Mirren  - The Clearing Dennis Quaid and Marg Helgenberger  - In Good Company Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon  - Shall We Dance?
Best Movie for Grownups Who Refuse to Grow Up The Incredibles ‡ Anchorman Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story Mean Girls The Polar Express	Best TV Movie The Five People You Meet in Heaven The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Best Documentary Festival Express ‡ Control Room Metallica: Some Kind of Monster Riding Giants The Story of the Weeping Camel	Best Foreign Film Good Bye, Lenin!  - Germany ‡ The Motorcycle Diaries  - Argentina Osama  - Afghanistan Monsieur Ibrahim  - France The Sea Inside  - Spain

Breakaway Accomplishment

• Lynn Redgrave: "Redgrave appears for just over two minutes and 50 seconds, yet after nearly 40 years of roles that barely touched on her skills, her soliloquy as a woman telling her story to the controversial sex researcher is so breathtaking and heartfelt she delivers what amounts to a benediction." ^[7]

Runners Up

• Tom Selleck for Ike: Countdown to D-Day
• Meryl Streep for Stuck on You

Other Awards and Prizes

• Who's Your Daddy? Romantic Gap Prize: Steve Martin (60) and Claire Danes (26) in Shopgirl
• Woman of the Year: Joan Allen for Off the Map , Yes , and The Upside of Anger
• Best DVD Rerelease: Dracula
• Medal of Bravery: Jane Seymour, "for her fearlessly sexy romp as the senator's wife in Wedding Crashers ." ^[8]
• Not-Scared-Shirtless Prize: Liam Neeson ( Batman Begins ) and Dennis Quaid ( Yours, Mine & Ours )
• Remake from Hell Award: The Honeymooners
• Worst Roommate: Tom Cruise and Tim Robbins in War of the Worlds
• Christopher Walken 911 Award: "Mediocre flicks saved by his mere presence: 2 ( Domino and Romance and Cigarettes )"

Films with multiple nominations

Films that received multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
4	The Notebook
3	The Aviator
	In Good Company
	Monsieur Ibrahim
	Shall We Dance?
	Spanglish
2	Million Dollar Baby
	Miracle
	Ray

References

1. "AArp's top films: Not just for mature audiences only".
2. "Winners and Runners-Up of Movies for Grownups Awards, 2006 with Bill N".
3. "Starlets are so dated: AARP honors films with mature appeal". 14 February 2005.
4. "Winners and Runners-Up of Movies for Grownups Awards, 2006 with Bill N".
5. "For the mature audience, please".
6. "AArp's top films: Not just for mature audiences only".
7. "Winners and Runners-Up of Movies for Grownups Awards, 2006 with Bill N".
8. "Winners and Runners-Up of Movies for Grownups Awards, 2006 with Bill N".