AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Supporting Actress

AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Supporting Actress
The 2024 recipient: Joan Chen
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actress over 50 in a Supporting Role
Country	United States
Presented by	AARP
First award	Ruby Dee for American Gangster (2007)
Currently held by	Joan Chen for Didi (2024)
Website	https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/movies-for-grownups/

The AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards presented annually by the AARP. The award honors an actress over the age of 50 who has given an outstanding supporting performance in a film in a given year. ^[1] The awards for Supporting Actress and Supporting Actor were first given at the 7th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards in 2008. ^[2] Prior to that, the only individual acting awards were for Best Actor and Best Actress.

Winners and Nominees

  indicates the winners.

2000s

Ruby Dee was the first and, to date, oldest winner of Best Supporting Actress, for her role in American Gangster .

Year	Actress	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
2007 (7th)	Ruby Dee ‡	Mama Lucas	American Gangster	[3]
	Jane Asher	Sandra	Death at a Funeral
	Olympia Dukakis	Marian	Away from Her
	Fernanda Montenegro	Tránsito Ariza	Love in the Time of Cholera
	Vanessa Redgrave	Briony Tallis	Atonement
2008 (8th)	Christine Baranski ‡(tie)	Tanya Chesham-Leigh	Mamma Mia!	[4]
	Julie Walters ‡(tie)	Rosie Mulligan	Mamma Mia!
	Kim Cattrall	Samantha Jones	Sex and the City
	Bette Midler	Bernice Graves	Then She Found Me
	Debra Winger	Abby Buchman	Rachel Getting Married
	Cloris Leachman	Maggie	The Women
2009 (9th)	Kim Basinger ‡	Gina	The Burning Plain	[5]
	Judi Dench	Liliane La Fleur	Nine
	Marcia Gay Harden	Brooke Cavendar	Whip It
	Susan Sarandon	Grandma Lynn	The Lovely Bones
	Imelda Staunton	Sonia Teichberg	Taking Woodstock

2010s

Vanessa Redgrave was the first solo winner born outside the United States.

Rene Russo's win for Nightcrawler was her first professional award besides a win for Best Kiss at the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards.

At 51 years old, Viola Davis's win for Fences made her the youngest recipient of Best Supporting Actress to date.

In addition to her three nominations and one win for Supporting Actress, Judi Dench has seven nominations and two wins for Best Actress.

Year	Actress	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
2010 (10th)	Phylicia Rashad ‡	Gilda ("Lady in Black")	For Colored Girls	[7]
	Gemma Jones	Helena Shepridge	You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
	Diane Keaton	Colleen Peck	Morning Glory
	Melissa Leo	Alice Eklund-Ward	The Fighter
	Sissy Spacek	Mattie Darrow	Get Low
2011 (11th)	Vanessa Redgrave ‡	Volumnia	Coriolanus	[8]
	Ellen Burstyn	Doris	Another Happy Day
	Judi Dench	Anna Marie Hoover	J. Edgar
	Allison Janney	Charlotte Phelan	The Help
	Janet McTeer	Hubert Page	Albert Nobbs
2012 (12th)	Jacki Weaver ‡	Dolores Solitano	Silver Linings Playbook	[9]
	Sally Field	Mary Todd Lincoln	Lincoln
	Catherine Keener	Juliette Gelbart	A Late Quartet
	Shirley MacLaine	Marjorie "Margie" Nugent	Bernie
	Frances McDormand	Sue Thomason	Promised Land
2013 (13th)	Oprah Winfrey ‡	Gloria Gaines	Lee Daniels' The Butler	[10]
	Allison Janney	Betty Thompson	The Way Way Back
	Margo Martindale	Mattie Fae Aiken	August: Osage County
	Julianne Moore	Esther	Don Jon
	June Squibb	Kate Grant	Nebraska
2014 (14th)	Rene Russo ‡	Nina Romina	Nightcrawler	[11] [12]
	Susan Sarandon	Florence Aadland	The Last of Robin Hood
	Meryl Streep	The Witch	Into the Woods
	Marisa Tomei	Kate Hull	Love is Strange
	Laura Dern	Bobbi Grey	Wild
2015 (15th)	Diane Ladd ‡	Mimi	Joy	[13] [14]
	Joan Allen	Nancy Newsome	Room
	Jane Fonda	Brenda Morel	Youth
	Helen Mirren	Hedda Hopper	Trumbo
	Cynthia Nixon	Gail White	James White
2016 (16th)	Viola Davis ‡	Rose Lee Maxson	Fences	[15]
	Nicole Kidman	Sue Brierly	Lion
	Helen Mirren	Col. Katherine Powell	Eye in the Sky
	Molly Shannon	Joanne Mulcahey	Other People
	Sigourney Weaver	Mrs. Clayton / Grandma	A Monster Calls
2017 (17th)	Laurie Metcalf ‡	Marion McPherson	Lady Bird	[16]
	Holly Hunter	Beth Gardner	The Big Sick
	Allison Janney	LaVona Golden	I, Tonya
	Melissa Leo	Reverend Mother Marie Saint-Clair	Novitiate
	Lesley Manville	Cyril Woodcock	Phantom Thread
2018 (18th)	Judi Dench ‡	Anne Hathaway	All Is True	[17] [18]
	Angela Bassett	Ramonda	Black Panther
	Blythe Danner	Ruth Everhardt	What They Had
	Nicole Kidman	Nancy Eamons	Boy Erased
	Michelle Yeoh	Eleanor Sung-Young	Crazy Rich Asians
2019 (19th)	Laura Dern ‡	Nora Fanshaw	Marriage Story	[19] [20]
	Nicole Kidman	Gretchen Carlson	Bombshell
	Jennifer Lopez	Ramona Vega	Hustlers
	Zhao Shu-zhen	Nai Nai	The Farewell
	Maggie Smith	Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham	Downton Abbey

2020s

At 87, Ellen Burstyn's performance in Pieces of a Woman made her the oldest nominee to date.

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
2020 (20th)	Jodie Foster ‡	Nancy Hollander	The Mauritanian	[21] [22]
	Candice Bergen	Roberta	Let Them All Talk
	Ellen Burstyn	Elizabeth Weiss	Pieces of a Woman
	Glenn Close	Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance	Hillbilly Elegy
	Youn Yuh-jung	Soon-ja	Minari
2021 (21st)	Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor ‡	Oracene "Brandy" Price	King Richard	[23] [24]
	Cate Blanchett	Lilith Ritter	Nightmare Alley
	Judi Dench	Granny	Belfast
	Marlee Matlin	Jackie Rossi	CODA
	Rita Moreno	Valentina	West Side Story
2022 (22nd)	Judith Ivey ‡	Agata	Women Talking
	Angela Bassett	Ramonda	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
	Patricia Clarkson	Rebecca Corbett	She Said
	Jamie Lee Curtis	Deirdre Beaubeirdre	Everything Everywhere All at Once
	Gabrielle Union	Inez French	The Inspection
2023 (23rd)	Jodie Foster ‡	Bonnie Stoll	Nyad
	Viola Davis	Deloris Jordan	Air
	Taraji P. Henson	Shug Avery	The Color Purple
	Julianne Moore	Gracie	May December
	Leslie Uggams	Agnes Ellison	American Fiction
2024 (24th)	Joan Chen ‡	Chungsing Wang	Dìdi
	Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor	Hattie	Nickel Boys
	Lesley Manville	Dr. Cotter	Queer
	Connie Nielsen	Lucilla	Gladiator II
	Isabella Rossellini	Sister Agnes	Conclave

Actors with multiple wins and nominations

The following individuals received multiple Best Supporting Actress nominations:

Multiple wins

Wins	Actor
2	Jodie Foster

Multiple nominations

Nominations	Actress
4	Judi Dench
3	Allison Janney
	Nicole Kidman
2	Angela Bassett
	Ellen Burstyn
	Viola Davis
	Laura Dern
	Jodie Foster
	Melissa Leo
	Helen Mirren
	Julianne Moore
	Vanessa Redgrave
	Susan Sarandon

Age superlatives

Record	Actress	Film	Age (in years)
Oldest winner	Ruby Dee	American Gangster	85
Oldest nominee	Ellen Burstyn	Pieces of a Woman	87
Youngest winner	Viola Davis	Fences	51
Youngest nominee	Nicole Kidman	Lion	49

See also

• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
• BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
• Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
• Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
• Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female
• Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

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