The 25th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards, presented by AARP: The Magazine , honored films and television series released in 2025. ^{[1] [2] [3]} The nominations were announced on November 19, 2025, with the action thriller One Battle After Another leading the nominations with eight, followed by the historical drama Nuremberg with four. ^{[1] [4] [5]}

Contents

• Awards
• Winners and nominees
• Multiple nominations
• Films with multiple nominations
• Series with multiple nominations
• Multiple wins
• Films with multiple wins
• Series with multiple wins
• References
• External links

Created by and about people over the age of 50, the winners were announced on January 10, 2026. ^[3] The ceremony took place at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles and was hosted by Alan Cumming. ^{[3] [6] [7]} The event was broadcast by Great Performances on PBS on February 22, 2026. ^{[1] [8] [9]}

Adam Sandler received the Career Achievement Award. ^[10]

Awards

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. ^[3]

Best Picture Hamnet A House of Dynamite One Battle After Another Sinners Train Dreams	Best Director Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Kathryn Bigelow – A House of Dynamite Scott Cooper – Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere Spike Lee – Highest 2 Lowest
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 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 Supporting Actor Delroy Lindo – Sinners Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another Sean Penn – One Battle After Another Michael Shannon – Nuremberg Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value	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 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 One Battle After Another A House of Dynamite Jay Kelly Nuremberg Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Best Documentary My Mom Jayne Becoming Led Zeppelin Cover-Up Riefenstahl Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost	Best Foreign-Language Film Sentimental Value It Was Just an Accident No Other Choice Nouvelle Vague The Secret Agent
Best Intergenerational Film Sentimental Value Eleanor the Great The Lost Bus Rental Family Rosemead	Best Period Film Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere Dead Man's Wire Marty Supreme Nuremberg Sinners
Best TV Series or Limited Series The Pitt Adolescence Hacks The Studio The White Lotus
Best Actor (TV) Noah Wyle – The Pitt Walton Goggins – The White Lotus Stephen Graham – Adolescence Gary Oldman – Slow Horses Pedro Pascal – The Last of Us	Best Actress (TV) Kathy Bates – Matlock Kathryn Hahn – The Studio Catherine O'Hara – The Studio Parker Posey – The White Lotus Jean Smart – Hacks

Multiple nominations

Multiple wins

References

External links

• Official website