AARP’s 2025 Films for Grownups Awards: Complete Winners Checklist

A Entire Unknown, the James Mangold movie about Bob Dylan within the Sixties, received easiest image/easiest film for grownups at AARP’s Films for Grownups Awards, which have been hung on Saturday (Feb. 8) on the Beverly Wilshire Lodge in Beverly Hills, Calif. The development had initially been scheduled for Jan. 11, however was once postponed because of the wildfires that unfold throughout more than one neighborhoods of the Los Angeles space starting on Jan. 7.

Alan Cumming, the Tony- and Primetime Emmy Award-winning host of the contest display The Traitors, returned as host of the display, which is in its twenty fourth yr. The awards are set to be broadcast by way of Nice Performances on Sunday, Feb. 23, at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT on PBS, its web page and the PBS app.

AARP’s Films for Grownups Awards was once established to inspire movies and TV presentations that resonate with older audience. On its web site, AARP provides that there’s an age requirement for person honors: “AARP honors 2024’s best movie and TV achievements by way of abilities 50+.” (They cross as far as to record ages within the winners record on their web site.)

That fifty+ requirement explains why Kieran Culkin (A Actual Ache) and Zoë Saldaña (Emilia Pérez), who’re successful maximum awards for easiest supporting actor and actress, respectively, weren’t nominated right here. Culkin is 42. Saldaña is 46. It additionally explains why Timothée Chalamet wasn’t nominated for easiest actor for enjoying Dylan in A Entire Unknown. Chalamet is simply 29 — a whippersnapper in AARP phrases.

A Entire Unknown competed in the most efficient image class with Conclave, Emilia Pérez, Gladiator II and September 5. The Dylan biopic received a 2nd award for easiest time pill. It was once the one double winner on the display.

The awards for easiest actor and easiest actress went to Adrien Brody (The Brutalist) and Demi Moore (The Substance), who appear to be the front-runners to win Academy Awards in the ones classes.

Tremendous/Guy: The Christopher Reeve Tale received easiest documentary. The movie, directed by way of Peter Ettedgui, tracks actor Christopher Reeve’s pivot from movie megastar to activist for incapacity rights following a 1995 horse-riding twist of fate. It triumphed in a difficult class that had a better than same old track emphasis. The opposite nominees have been I Am: Celine Dion, directed by way of Irene Taylor, which makes a speciality of the singer’s battle with Stiff Individual Syndrome; Luther Vandross: By no means Too A lot — directed by way of Morning time Porter, which lines the past due R&B megastar’s lifestyles and occupation; Piece by way of Piece, directed by way of Morgan Neville, a adventure throughout the lifetime of Pharrell Williams, advised throughout the lens of LEGO animation; and Will & Harper, directed by way of Josh Greenbaum, an intimate portrayal of friendship starring Will Ferrell and Harper Steele, buddies of 30 years who cross on a cross-country highway travel.

Glenn Shut was once the Films for Grownups Occupation Success Winner, their model of an entire life success award.

Right here’s the entire record of nominees for the 2025 Films for Grownups Awards, with winners marked.

FILM AWARDS

Easiest Image/Easiest Film for Grownups

WINNER: A Entire Unknown

Conclave

Emilia Pérez

Gladiator II

September 5

Easiest Actress

Pamela Anderson (The Closing Showgirl)

Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Onerous Truths)

Nicole Kidman (Babygirl)

WINNER: Demi Moore (The Substance)

June Squibb (Thelma)

Easiest Actor

WINNER: Adrian Brody (The Brutalist)

Daniel Craig (Queer)

Colman Domingo (Sing Sing)

Ralph Fiennes (Conclave)

Jude Regulation (The Order)

Easiest Supporting Actress

WINNER: Joan Chen (Didi)

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (Nickel Boys)

Lesley Manville (Queer)

Connie Nielsen (Gladiator II)

Isabella Rossellini (Conclave)

Easiest Supporting Actor

Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing)

Man Pearce (The Brutalist)

WINNER: Peter Sarsgaard (September 5)

Stanley Tucci (Conclave)

Denzel Washington (Gladiator II)

Easiest Director

Pedro Almodóvar (The Room Subsequent Door)

WINNER: Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez)

Edward Berger (Conclave)

James Mangold (A Entire Unknown)

Ridley Scott (Gladiator II)

Easiest Screenwriter

Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Nicolas Livecchi (Emilia Pérez)

Jay Cocks and James Mangold (A Entire Unknown)

WINNER: Winnie Holzman (Depraved)

Peter Straughan (Conclave)

Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts (Dune: Section Two)

Easiest Ensemble

A Entire Unknown

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice

His 3 Daughters

September 5

WINNER: Sing Sing

Easiest Intergenerational Movie

Didi

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His 3 Daughters

The Piano Lesson

WINNER: Thelma

Easiest Time Pill

WINNER: A Entire Unknown

The Brutalist

Right here

Maria

September 5

Easiest Documentary

I Am: Celine Dion

Luther: By no means Too A lot

Piece by way of Piece

WINNER: Tremendous/Guy: The Christopher Reeve Tale

Will & Harper

TV AWARDS

Easiest TV Collection or Restricted Collection

The Crown

Hacks

Palm Royale

WINNER: Shōgun

Sluggish Horses

Easiest Actress (TV)

Jennifer Aniston (The Morning Display)

WINNER: Jodie Foster (True Detective: Night time Nation)

Jean Good (Hacks)

Meryl Streep (Handiest Murders within the Development)

Sofia Vergara (Griselda)

Easiest Actor (TV)

Billy Crudup (The Morning Display)

Idris Elba (Hijack)

WINNER: Jon Hamm (Fargo)

Gary Oldman (Sluggish Horses)

Hiroyuki Sanada (Shōgun)