Movies for Grownups Awards 2017 Nominees – Tell us Your Favorites

Movies for Grownups Awards 2017 celebrate 2017’s standout films with unique appeal to movie lovers with a grownup state of mind and recognize the inspiring artists who make them. AARP The Magazine announced the nominees for the upcoming 17^th Annual Movies for Grownups^® Awards recently. The winners will be announced on February 5 2018 in Beverly Hills.

Movies for Grownups Awards 2017

Award-winning film and stage actor Alan Cumming will host the star-studded evening at the Beverly Wilshire. The 17^th Annual Movies for Grownups^® Awards will be broadcast for the first time on Friday, February 23 at 9 p.m. on PBS.

Event proceeds raise funds for AARP Foundation, AARP’s charitable affiliate, which works to end senior poverty by building economic opportunity and social connections for vulnerable older adults in L.A. and across the country.

Movies for Grownups Awards 2017 Nominees

Take a peek at these nominations and tel us which of the movies and performance did you like the most this year.

Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups:

• Get Out, 
• Lady Bird,
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi,
• The Shape of Water and
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Actress

• Annette Bening (Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool), 
• Judi Dench (Victoria & Abdul),
• Salma Hayek (Beatriz at Dinner),
• Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) and
• Meryl Streep (The Post)

Best Actor

• Steve Carell (Battle of the Sexes),
• Daniel Day-Lewis(Phantom Thread),
• Tom Hanks (The Post),
• Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour),
• Denzel Washington (Roman J. Israel, Esq.)

Best Supporting Actress

• Holly Hunter (The Big Sick),
• Allison Janney(I, Tonya),
• Melissa Leo (Novitiate),
• Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread),
• Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird)

Best Supporting Actor

• Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project),
• Laurence Fishburne (Last Flag Flying),
• Woody Harrelson (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri),
• Richard Jenkins (The Shape of Water), and
• Christopher Plummer (All the Money in the World)

Best Director

• Kenneth Branagh (Murder on the Orient Express),
• Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water),
• Reginald Hudlin (Marshall),
• Ridley Scott (All the Money in the World) and
• Steven Spielberg (The Post)

Best Grownup Love Story

• Breathe,
• Films Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool,
• The Leisure Seeker,
• Our Souls at Night,
• The Greatest Showman

Best Intergenerational Film

• The Big Sick,
• The Florida Project, 
• Lady Bird, 
• Marjorie Prime,
• Wonder

Best Time Capsule

• Battle of the Sexes,
• Darkest Hour,
• Dunkirk,
• I, Tonya,
• The Post

Readers’ Choice Poll

• Beauty and the Beast,
• Dunkirk,
• Get Out,
• Girls Trip,
• Last Flag Flying,
• Murder on the Orient Express,
• The Post,
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi,
• Wonder,
• Wonder Woman