AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Buddy Picture

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AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Buddy Picture
Awarded forBest film about friendship between people over 50
Country United States
Presented by AARP
First awarded 2008 (for films released during the 2007 film season)
Currently held by Finch (2021)
Website https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/movies-for-grownups/

The AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Buddy Picture is one of the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards presented annually by the AARP. The award honors the best film from a given year that is about friendship between people over the age of 50. [1] The award for Best Buddy Picture was first given at the 7th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards. Other new awards that year were Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. [2]

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No award for Best Buddy Picture was given for movies premiering in 2011, 2017, or 2018. In 2020, AARP listed five nominees for Best Buddy Picture from 2019, but did not award any of them.

Winners and nominees

  indicates the winners.

2000s

YearFilmDirector(s)Ref.
2007
(7th) 		The Bucket List ‡ Rob Reiner [3]
2008
(8th) 		Tyler Perry's The Family that Preys ‡ Tyler Perry [4]
Mamma Mia! Phyllida Lloyd
Soul Men Malcolm D. Lee
The Women Diane English
2009
(9th) 		The Soloist ‡ Joe Wright [5]
The Damned United Tom Hooper

2010s

YearFilmDirector(s)Ref.
2010
(10th) 		Unstoppable ‡ Tony Scott [6]
2011
(11th) 		No award givenN/A [7]
2012
(12th) 		Robot & Frank ‡ Jake Schreier [8]
2013
(13th) 		Last Vegas ‡ John Turtletaub [9]
2014
(14th) 		Land Ho! ‡ Martha Stephens
Aaron Katz 		[10] [11]
2015
(15th) 		Learning to Drive ‡ Isabel Coixet [12] [13]
The 33 Patricia Riggen
The Intern Nancy Meyers
A Walk in the Woods Ken Kwapis
Youth Paolo Sorrentino
2016
(16th) 		Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie ‡ Mandie Fletcher [14]
Fences Denzel Washington
Genius Michael Grandage
The Founder John Lee Hancock
The Nice Guys Shane Black
2017
(17th) 		No award givenN/A [15]
2018
(18th) 		No award givenN/A [16]
2019
(19th) [fn 1] 		A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Marielle Heller [17]
Ford v Ferrari James Mangold
Just Mercy Destin Daniel Cretton
The Lighthouse Robert Eggers
The Two Popes Fernando Meirelles

2020s

YearFilmDirector(s)Ref.
2020/21
(20th) 		Da 5 Bloods ‡ Spike Lee [18]
Bad Boys for Life Adil & Billal
Bill & Ted Face the Music Dean Parisot
Let Them All Talk Steven Soderbergh
Standing Up, Falling Down Matt Ratner
2021
(21st) 		Finch ‡ Miguel Sapochnik [19] [20]
12 Mighty Orphans Ty Roberts
The Harder They Fall Jeymes Samuel
Off the Rails Jules Williamson
Queen Bees Michael Lembeck

Footnotes

  1. ↑ In 2019 the AARP announced five nominees for Best Buddy Picture but did not identify a winner.

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References

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  2. ↑ Newcott, Bill. "Movies for Grownups Awards 2008 with Bill Newcott - AARP Magazine". AARP.
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  4. ↑ "Movies for Grownups Awards 2009 from Bill Newcott of AARP".
  5. ↑ "AARP the Magazine Recognizes the Best Movies for the 50+ Audience with the 9th Annual Movies for Grownups(R) Awards" (Press release).
  6. ↑ "2011 Movies for Grownups Awards".
  7. ↑ "Movies for Grownups Award Winners - the Descendents, J. Edgar, the Artist".
  8. ↑ "2013 Movies for Grownups Awards".
  9. ↑ "13th Annual Movies for Grownups Awards, 2014 Best Actor, Actress and F".
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  11. ↑ "14th Annual Movies for Grownups Award winners from AARP the Magazine Announced with Top Honors Going to Julianne Moore, Steve Carell, Rene Russo and J.K. Simmons #AwardSeason #AARPtheMagazine". 10 January 2015.
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  13. ↑ "'Spotlight' Named Best 'Movie for Grownups' by AARP". 5 January 2016.
  14. ↑ "AARP's Movies for Grownups Awards: Complete Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter . 6 February 2017.
  15. ↑ "AARP's Movies for Grownups Awards: 'The Post' Leads Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter . 17 January 2018.
  16. ↑ "'Green Book' and 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?' Win Big at AARP's Movies for Grownups Awards". The Hollywood Reporter . 4 February 2019.
  17. ↑ "The Two Popes Earns 7 Nods in AARP's Movies for Grown-ups Awards". 26 November 2019.
  18. ↑ "AARP Movies for Grownups Awards: 'The United States vs. Billie Holiday' Named Best Picture". The Hollywood Reporter . 4 March 2021.
  19. ↑ "'Belfast' Tops Nominees for AARP Movies for Grownups Awards (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter . 11 January 2022.
  20. ↑ "AARP Movies for Grownups Awards: 'Belfast' Named Best Film; 'King Richard' Lone Double Winner – Full List". 19 March 2022.
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