AARP’s 2025 Films for Grownups Awards: Nominees Checklist

Tune movies and documentaries are sprinkled a few of the nominees for AARP’s twenty fourth annual Films for Grownups Awards, which was once established to inspire movies and TV presentations that resonate with older audience.

A Whole Unknown, the approaching James Mangold movie about Bob Dylan within the Nineteen Sixties starring Timothée Chalamet, is nominated for absolute best image/absolute best film for grownups. It’s competing with Conclave, Emilia Pérez, Gladiator II and September 5. (The latter issues a hostage disaster on the 1972 Olympics in Munich.)

Documentaries about Celine Dion and Luther Vandross are a few of the nominees for absolute best documentary. I Am: Celine Dion, directed by way of Irene Taylor, specializes in the singer’s battle with Stiff Individual Syndrome. Luther Vandross: By no means Too A lot — directed by way of Crack of dawn Porter and that includes Jamie Foxx, Mariah Carey and Patti LaBelle — lines the past due R&B celebrity’s lifestyles and occupation.

The opposite nominees within the documentary class are Piece by way of Piece, directed by way of Morgan Neville, a adventure during the lifetime of Pharrell Williams, advised during the lens of LEGO animation; Tremendous/Guy: The Christopher Reeve Tale, directed by way of Peter Ettedgui, which tracks actor Christopher Reeve’s pivot from movie celebrity to activist for incapacity rights following a sad 1995 horse-riding coincidence; and Will & Harper, directed by way of Josh Greenbaum, an intimate portrayal of friendship starring Will Ferrell and Harper Steele, pals of 30 years who move on a cross-country street shuttle.

The Oscars will announce its shortlist of 15 movies eligible for absolute best documentary characteristic on Dec. 17.

The yearly Films for Grownups Awards rite will happen on Saturday, Jan. 11, on the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills, Calif. Alan Cumming, the Tony- and Primetime Emmy Award-winning host of the contest display The Traitors, will go back because the host of the display, which might be broadcast by way of Nice Performances on Sunday, Feb. 23, at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT on PBS and its web page, in addition to the PBS app.

Right here’s your complete record of nominees for the 2025 Films for Grownups Awards.

Perfect Image/Perfect Film for Grownups: A Whole Unknown, Conclave, Emilia Pérez, Gladiator II, September 5

Perfect Actress: Pamela Anderson (The Ultimate Showgirl), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Laborious Truths), Nicole Kidman (Babygirl), Demi Moore (The Substance), June Squibb (Thelma)

Perfect Actor: Adrian Brody (The Brutalist), Daniel Craig (Queer), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), Ralph Fiennes (Conclave), Jude Legislation (The Order)

Perfect Supporting Actress: Joan Chen (Didi), Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (Nickel Boys), Lesley Manville (Queer), Connie Nielsen (Gladiator II), Isabella Rossellini (Conclave)

Perfect Supporting Actor: Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing), Man Pearce (The Brutalist), Peter Sarsgaard (September 5), Stanley Tucci (Conclave), Denzel Washington (Gladiator II)

Perfect Director: Pedro Almodóvar (The Room Subsequent Door), Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez), Edward Berger (Conclave), James Mangold (A Whole Unknown), Ridley Scott (Gladiator II)

Perfect Screenwriter: Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Nicolas Livecchi (Emilia Pérez), Jay Cocks and James Mangold (A Whole Unknown), Winnie Holzman (Depraved), Peter Straughan (Conclave), and Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts (Dune: Phase Two)

Perfect Ensemble: A Whole Unknown, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, His 3 Daughters, September 5, Sing Sing

Perfect Actress (TV): Jennifer Aniston (The Morning Display), Jodie Foster (True Detective: Evening Nation), Jean Sensible (Hacks), Meryl Streep (Most effective Murders within the Construction), Sofia Vergara (Griselda)

Perfect Actor (TV): Billy Crudup (The Morning Display), Idris Elba (Hijack), Jon Hamm (Fargo), Gary Oldman (Gradual Horses), Hiroyuki Sanada (Shōgun)

Perfect TV Sequence or Restricted Sequence: The Crown, Hacks, Palm Royale, Shōgun, Gradual Horses

Perfect Intergenerational Movie: Didi, Right here, His 3 Daughters, The Piano Lesson, Thelma

Perfect Time Tablet: A Whole Unknown, The Brutalist, Right here, Maria, September 5

Perfect Documentary: I Am: Celine Dion, Luther: By no means Too A lot, Piece by way of Piece, Tremendous/Guy: The Christopher Reeve Tale, Will & Harper