AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Supporting Actress | |
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![]() 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.
Year | Actress | Role(s) | Film | Ref. |
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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 |
The following individuals received multiple Best Supporting Actress nominations:
Wins | Actor |
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2 | Jodie Foster |
Record | Actress | Film | Age (in years) |
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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 |