Spreading the love far and wide, the AARP voters went in the most expected and telling direction possible with their selection of Green Book as best film. Highlighting how old fashioned the film’s message is, it’s no surprise that a group that has often supported such halcyon glimpses of the past would support a film like it. The only real surprise in these selections is Spike Lee winning Best Director, a move that seems to try to suggest progressivism when almost all of the remaining selections weren’t very progressive at all.

Award Tallies

(2) Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Green Book

The Awards

Best Movie for Grownups

Green Book

Best Director

BlacKkKlansman – Spike Lee

Best Actor

Viggo Mortensen – Green Book

Best Actress

Glenn Close – The Wife

Best Supporting Actor

Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Best Supporting Actress

Judi Dench – All Is True

Best Screenwriter

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Best Foreign Film

Roma

Best Documentary

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Best Ensemble

Bohemian Rhapsody

Best Grownup Love Story

What They Had

Best Time Capsule

If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Intergenerational Movie

Mary Poppins Returns

Readers’ Choice Poll

A Star Is Born

AARP Movies for Grownups Data

Year Founded: 1958
First Awards: 2000 (18)