The AARP have announced their nominations representing the best in film and television for 2025. The ceremony will be held in Beverly Hills on Saturday, January 10th, 2026. Alan Cumming will return as host, and Adam Sandler will receive this year’s Movies for Grownups Career Achievement Award. Here are this year’s nominees…
Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups
Hamnet
A House of Dynamite
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Train Dreams
Best Actress
Laura Dern (Is This Thing On?)
Jodie Foster (A Private Life)
Lucy Liu (Rosemead)
Julia Roberts (After the Hunt)
June Squibb (Eleanor the Great)
Best Actor
George Clooney (Jay Kelly)
Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another)
Joel Edgerton (Train Dreams)
Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon)
Dwayne Johnson (The Smashing Machine)
Best Supporting Actress
Regina Hall (One Battle After Another)
Amy Madigan (Weapons)
Helen Mirren (Goodbye June)
Gwyneth Paltrow (Marty Supreme)
Sigourney Weaver (Avatar: Fire and Ash)
Best Supporting Actor
Benicio Del Toro (One Battle After Another)
Delroy Lindo (Sinners)
Sean Penn (One Battle After Another)
Michael Shannon (Nuremberg)
Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value)
Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)
Kathryn Bigelow (A House of Dynamite)
Scott Cooper (Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere)
Guillermo del Toro (Frankenstein)
Spike Lee (Highest 2 Lowest)
Best Screenwriter
Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)
Noah Baumbach and Emily Mortimer (Jay Kelly)
Bradley Cooper, Will Arnett and Mark Chappell (Is This Thing On?)
Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale)
James Vanderbilt (Nuremberg)
Best Ensemble
A House of Dynamite
Jay Kelly
Nuremberg
One Battle After Another
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Best Intergenerational Film
Eleanor the Great
The Lost Bus
Rental Family
Rosemead
Sentimental Value
Best Period Film
Dead Man’s Wire
Marty Supreme
Nuremberg
Sinners
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
Best Documentary
Becoming Led Zeppelin
Cover-Up
My Mom Jayne
Riefenstahl
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost
Best Foreign-Language Film
It Was Just an Accident
No Other Choice
Nouvelle Vague
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Best TV Series or Limited Series
Adolescence
Hacks
The Pitt
The Studio
The White Lotus
Best Actor (TV)
Walton Goggins (The White Lotus)
Stephen Graham (Adolescence)
Gary Oldman (Slow Horses)
Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us)
Noah Wyle (The Pitt)
Best Actress (TV)
Kathy Bates (Matlock)
Kathryn Hahn (The Studio)
Catherine O’Hara (The Studio)
Parker Posey (The White Lotus)
Jean Smart (Hacks)
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