AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Screenwriter explained

AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Screenwriter
Awarded For:Best screenplay by a writer over 50
Presenter:AARP
Country:United States
Year:2003 (for films released during the 2002 film season)
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Holder:Kazuo Ishiguro
Living (2022)

The AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Screenwriter is one of the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards presented annually by the AARP. The award honors a screenwriter over the age of 50 who has written an outstanding supporting screenplay for a film produced in a given year.[1] The award for Best Screenwriter was first given in 2003, when the awards expanded beyond their initial categories of Best Movie for Grownups, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Documentary, Best Foreign Film, and Best Movie for Grownups Who Refuse to Grow Up.[1]

Winners and Nominees

2000s

YearFilmNominees
2002
(2nd)
[2]
The Pianist
2003
(3rd)
[3]
In America
Something's Gotta Give
Cold Mountain
Casa de los Babys
2004
(4th)
[4]
Spider-Man 2
Bad Education
Spanglish
Million Dollar Baby &
2005
(5th)
[5] [6]
Brokeback Mountain &
Bad Education.
Crash
Broken Flowers
Yes
2006
(6th)
[7] [8]
Flags of Our Fathers and
Boynton Beach Club, David Cramer, and Florence Seidelman
For Your Consideration and
Keeping Mum
Catch a Fire
2007
(7th)
[9] [10]
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
In the Valley of Elah
Atonement
American Gangster
2008
(8th)
[11] [12]
Changeling
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Burn After Reading
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
2009
(9th)
[13] [14]
It's Complicated
A Serious Man
Julie & Julia
Taking WoodstockJames Schamus

2010s

YearFilmNominees
2010
(10th)
[15] [16]
The Company Men
True Grit
The Next Three Days
Another Year
The King's Speech
2011
(11th)
[17] [18]
Midnight in Paris
The Descendants
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
A Better Life
Moneyball & Aaron Sorkin
2012
(12th)
[19] [20] [21] [22] [23]
The Sessions
Amour
Lincoln
Hyde Park on Hudson
Silver Linings Playbook
2013
(13th)
[24] [25]
Before Midnight with Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke
Inside Llewyn Davis
About Time
Enough Said
American Hustle &
2014
(14th)
[26]
Wild &
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Into the Woods
Boyhood
The Theory of Everything
2015
(15th)
[27] [28]
Joy
Brooklyn

Notes and References

  1. Web site: About AARP Movies for Grownups Awards. Tim. Appelo. AARP.
  2. Web site: Movies for Grownups Awards 2003 with Bill Newcott.
  3. Web site: Movies for Grownups Awards 2004 with Bill Newcott.
  4. Web site: Winners and Runners-Up of Movies for Grownups Awards, 2006 with Bill N.
  5. Web site: Movies for Grownups. CBS News.
  6. Newcott . William R. . March 2006 . "Fifth Annual Movies for Grownups" . AARP the Magazine . 50–51 . Washington, DC.
  7. Web site: 2007 Movies for Grownup Awards | Voice of America - English.
  8. Web site: Best Actress 50 and over, and Other Movies for Grownups Awards with Bi.
  9. Web site: Movies for Grownups Awards 2008 with Bill Newcott - AARP Magazine. Bill. Newcott. AARP.
  10. Web site: Watching Old Movies is a Way of Connecting to Our Past. Korky Vann. Courant. courant.com. 31 January 2008 .
  11. Web site: 'Movies for Grownups' Awards Honor Films for 50-Plus Crowd | Voice of America - English.
  12. Web site: Movies for Grownups Awards 2009 from Bill Newcott of AARP.
  13. Web site: AARP Magazine announces Movies for Grownups Awards. 15 February 2010.
  14. AARP the Magazine Recognizes the Best Movies for the 50+ Audience with the 9th Annual Movies for Grownups(R) Awards.
  15. Web site: Top 10 Movies for Grownups of 2010 - Bill Newcott - Meg Grant.
  16. Web site: 2011 Movies for Grownups Awards.
  17. Web site: Movies for Grownups Award Winners - The Descendents, J. Edgar, The Artist. Bill. Newcott. AARP.
  18. Web site: Making a Play for Older Voters (And Moviegoers). 7 February 2012.
  19. Web site: 2013-02-04. Just In! 2013 AARP Movies For Grownups Awards. 2021-04-21. HuffPost. en.
  20. Web site: Newcott. Bill. 2013 Movies for Grownups Awards. 2021-04-21. AARP. english.
  21. Web site: McKay. Hollie. 2015-03-25. Who's Jennifer Lawrence? AARP hands out Movies for Grownups awards. 2021-04-21. Fox News. en-US.
  22. AARP. AARP The Magazine Announces The Winners of Its Twelfth Annual Movies for Grownups® Awards. 2021-04-21. www.prnewswire.com. en.
  23. Web site: O'Connor. Austin. 10 Best Movies for Grownups 2012. 2021-04-21. AARP. english.
  24. Web site: Bruce Dern and Judi Dench top AARP's Movies for Grownups Awards. Amy. Kaufman. capitalgazette.com.
  25. Web site: 13th Annual Movies for Grownups Awards, 2014 Best Actor, Actress and F.... Bill. Newcott. AARP.
  26. Newcott . William R. . Grant . Meg . February 2015. 14th Annual Best Movies for Grownups . AARP the Magazine . 44–47, 77 . Washington, DC.
  27. Web site: AARP The Magazine Announces Nominees for 2015 Movies for Grownups Awards incl. 'Brooklyn' 'Spotlight'. December 16, 2015. VIMOOZ.
  28. Web site: Vote Now for 2015's Best Movies for Grownups. AARP.