| AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Grownup Love Story | |
| Awarded For: | Best romance for an audience of people 50 and above |
| Presenter: | AARP |
| Country: | United States |
| Year: | 2003 (for films released during the 2002 film season) |
| Holder Label: | Most recent winner |
| Holder: | Daryl McCormack and Emma Thompson Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022) |
The AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Grownup Love Story is one of the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards presented annually by AARP the Magazine. The award honors the film with the best romance focused on adult characters, usually focusing on characters or performers over the age of 50.[1] The award for Best Grownup Love Story was first given in 2003, when the awards expanded beyond their initial four categories of Best Movie for Grownups, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress.[2]
Despite its name, the award recognizes performers who portray the love story onscreen, not the film's screenwriter.[3] While AARP the Magazine typically limits its winners and nominees to films by and about people over 50, there have been ten films nominated for Best Grownup Love Story whose romantic leads were both below that age: The Painted Veil, J. Edgar, Before Midnight, Carol, Breathe, The Greatest Showman, On the Basis of Sex, Emma., Wild Mountain Thyme, and Lady Chatterley's Lover. To date, The Greatest Showman is the only winner of Best Grownup Love Story in which all romantic leads were below the age of 50.[4]
| Year | Performers | Film | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | The Kids Are All Right | [13] | |
| Another Year | |||
| Fair Game | |||
| 2011 | [14] | ||
| War Horse | |||
| The Beaver | |||
| J. Edgar | |||
| 2012 | Hitchcock | [15] | |
| Hope Springs | |||
| Lincoln | |||
| 2013 | Enough Said | [16] | |
| Before Midnight | |||
| Lee Daniels' The Butler | |||
| 2014 | Love Is Strange | [17] | |
| 2015 | 5 Flights Up | [18] [19] | |
| 45 Years | |||
| Carol | |||
| Freeheld | |||
| I'll See You in My Dreams | |||
| 2016 | [20] | ||
| Fences | |||
| My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 | |||
| The Meddler | |||
| 2017 | The Greatest Showman | [21] | |
| The Leisure Seeker | |||
| Our Souls at Night | |||
| 2018 | What They Had | [22] | |
| All is True | |||
| On the Basis of Sex | |||
| 2019 | No award was given for Best Grownup Love Story for 2019. | N/A | [23] |
| Year | Performers | Film | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020/21 | [24] | ||
| Emma. | |||
| Ordinary Love | |||
| Wild Mountain Thyme | |||
| 2021 | [25] [26] | ||
| 2022 | |||
| [27] | |||
| Wins | Performer |
|---|---|
| 3 | Diane Keaton |
| 2 | Blythe Danner |
| Meryl Streep | |
| Emma Thompson | |
| Stanley Tucci |
| Nominations | Performer |
|---|---|
| 6 | Helen Mirren |
| Meryl Streep | |
| 4 | Jim Broadbent |
| Blythe Danner | |
| Diane Keaton | |
| 3 | Robert Redford |
| Susan Sarandon | |
| Emma Thompson | |
| 2 | Annette Bening |
| Tom Courtenay | |
| Judi Dench | |
| Jamie Dornan | |
| James Garner | |
| Richard Gere | |
| Armie Hammer | |
| Dustin Hoffman | |
| Richard Jenkins | |
| Julianne Moore | |
| Vanessa Redgrave | |
| Kristin Scott Thomas | |
| Donald Sutherland | |
| Stanley Tucci | |
| Naomi Watts | |
| Tom Wilkinson |
| Record | Performer | Film | Age (in years) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oldest winner | Morgan Freeman | 5 Flights Up | 78 | |
| Oldest nominee | Michael Constantine | My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 | 89 | |
| Youngest winner | Michelle Williams | The Greatest Showman | 37 | |
| Youngest nominee | Anya Taylor-Joy | Emma. | 24 |