AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Ensemble

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AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Ensemble
Awarded forBest film ensemble in a film made by or about people over the age of 50
Country United States
Presented by AARP
First awarded 2018 (for films released during the 2017 film season)
Currently held by The Color Purple (2023)
Website https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/movies-for-grownups/

The AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Ensemble is one of the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards presented annually by the AARP. The award honors the best film ensemble in a movie made by or about people over the age of 50. [1] The award for Best Buddy Picture was first given at the 17th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards in 2018. [2]

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Winners and Nominees

  indicates the winners.

2010s

YearFilmDirector(s)Ref.
2017
(17th)
Get Out Jordan Peele [3]
Girls Trip Malcolm D. Lee
Last Flag Flying Richard Linklater
Mudbound Dee Rees
Murder on the Orient Express Kenneth Branagh
2018
(18th)
Bohemian Rhapsody Bryan Singer
Dexter Fletcher
(credited as Executive Producer)
[4]
Black Panther Ryan Coogler
Crazy Rich Asians Jon M. Chu
The Front Runner Jason Reitman
Widows Steve McQueen
2019
(19th)
Knives Out Rian Johnson [5]
Bombshell Jay Roach
Dolemite Is My Name Craig Brewer
Downton Abbey Michael Engler
Little Women Greta Gerwig

2020s

YearFilmDirector(s)Ref.
2020/21
(20th)
One Night in Miami... Regina King [6]
Da 5 Bloods Spike Lee
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom George C. Wolfe
Promising Young Woman Emerald Fennell
The Trial of the Chicago 7 Aaron Sorkin
2021
(21st)
Nightmare Alley Guillermo del Toro [7] [8]
Don't Look Up Adam McKay
The Harder They Fall Jeymes Samuel
House of Gucci Ridley Scott
West Side Story Steven Spielberg
2022
(22nd)
She Said Maria Schrader [9]
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Rian Johnson
Nope Jordan Peele
The Woman King Gina Prince-Bythewood
Women Talking Sarah Polley
2023
(23rd)
The Color Purple Blitz Bazawule
American Fiction Cord Jefferson
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan
Rustin George C. Wolfe

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References

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