10th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards

The 10th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards, presented by AARP the Magazine, honored films released in 2010 made by people over the age of 50 and were announced on January 14, 2011.^[1] The ceremony was hosted by actors Dana Delany and Peter Gallagher on February 7, 2011 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles.^[2]^[3] Robert Redford was the winner of the annual Career Achievement Award, and Helen Mirren won the award for Breakthrough Achievement for her performance in Red.^[4]^[5]

Awards

Winners and Nominees

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).^[6]^[7]

Best Movie for Grownups The King's Speech‡ Another Year Casino Jack City Island The Company Men Get Low The Kids Are All Right Letters to Juliet Red Secretariat	Best Director Danny Boyle – 127 Hours‡ Paul Greengrass - Green Zone Paul Haggis - The Next Three Days Tony Scott - Unstoppable John Wells - The Company Men
Best Actor Colin Firth - The King's Speech‡ Michael Caine - Harry Brown Michael Douglas - Solitary Man Robert Duvall - Get Low Kevin Spacey - Casino Jack	Best Actress Lesley Manville - Another Year‡ Annette Bening - The Kids Are All Right Julianne Moore - The Kids Are All Right Vanessa Redgrave - Letters to Juliet Tilda Swinton - I Am Love
Best Supporting Actor John Malkovich - Secretariat‡ Geoffrey Rush - The King's Speech Kevin Costner - The Company Men Bill Murray - Get Low Ben Kingsley - Shutter Island	Best Supporting Actress Phylicia Rashad - For Colored Girls‡ Sissy Spacek - Get Low Diane Keaton - Morning Glory Melissa Leo - The Fighter Gemma Jones - You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Best Comedy City Island‡ Date Night Flipped Red	Best Screenwriter John Wells - The Company Men‡ Joel and Ethan Coen - True Grit Paul Haggis - The Next Three Days Mike Leigh - Another Year David Seidler - The King's Speech
Best Buddy Picture Unstoppable‡	Best Intergenerational Film Flipped‡ The Karate Kid The Kids Are All Right That Evening Sun Touching Home
Best Grownup Love Story Annette Bening and Julianne Moore - The Kids Are All Right‡ Blythe Danner and Richard Dreyfuss - The Lightkeepers Julianna Margulies and Andy Garcia - City Island Ruth Sheen and Jim Broadbent - Another Year Naomi Watts and Sean Penn - Fair Game	Best Movie for Grownups Who Refuse to Grow Up The Karate Kid‡ Alice in Wonderland Diary of a Wimpy Kid How to Train Your Dragon Toy Story 3
Best Documentary Waste Land‡ Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work Waiting for "Superman" Marwencol	Best Foreign Film Farewell - France‡ A Film Unfinished - Israel and Germany The First Beautiful Thing - Italy Mother - South Korea Peepli Live - India
Readers' Choice The King's Speech‡ Another Year Casino Jack City Island The Company Men Get Low The Kids Are All Right Letters to Juliet Red Secretariat

Career Achievement Award

Robert Redford: "a film icon who has captivated audiences for decades with stellar performances in countless films including The Way We Were, All the President's Men and The Natural, and Oscar-winning directing in Ordinary People."^[8]

Breakthrough Accomplishment

Helen Mirren: "The First Lady of the Cinema, playing a spy forced out of retirement, kicks a heap of bad-guy butt. Best moment: at the trigger of a machine gun the size of a Buick."^[9]

Films with multiple nominations and wins

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
5	The Kids Are All Right
4	Another Year
	The Company Men
	Get Low
	The King's Speech
3	City Island
2	Casino Jack
	Flipped
	The Karate Kid
	Letters to Juliet
	The Next Three Days
	Red
	Secretariat
	Unstoppable