AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best TV Movie/Limited Series explained

AARP Movies for Grownups Award for TV Movie/Limited Series
Awarded For:	Best TV Movie or Limited Series made by or for people over the age of 50
Presenter:	AARP
Country:	United States
Year:	2003 (for films aired during the 2002 television season)
Holder Label:	Most recent winner
Holder:	Black Bird (2022)

The AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best TV Movie/Limited Series is one of the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards presented annually by the AARP. The award honors the best television movie or limited series in a given year made by or featuring artists over the age of 50.^[1]

The first television award given by AARP was titled Best TV Movie, and was given to in 2003.^[2] The category was discontinued after 2006 before returning with its current name in 2021 as part of a slate of four television awards, alongside Best Series, Best Actress, and Best Actor.^{[3] [4]}

Winners and Nominees

2000s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Network
2002 (2nd) ^[5]		Ed Gernon	CBS
Martin and Lewis	John Gray	CBS
Path to War	John Frankenheimer	HBO
2003 (3rd) ^[6]	Angels in America	Mike Nichols	HBO
My House in Umbria	Richard Loncraine	HBO
2004 (4th) ^[7]	The Five People You Meet in Heaven	Lloyd Kramer	ABC
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers	Stephen Hopkins	HBO
2005 (5th) ^[8] ^[9]	The Girl in the Café	David Yates	BBC One
Empire Falls	Fred Schepisi	HBO
Lackawanna Blues	George C. Wolfe	HBO
Sometimes in April	Raoul Peck	HBO
Warm Springs	Joseph Sargent	HBO

2020s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Network
2020/21 ^[10]	The Queen's Gambit	Scott Frank	Netflix
Mrs. America	Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck Amma Asante Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre Janicza Bravo	FX on Hulu
Small Axe	Steve McQueen	BBC One
Unorthodox	Maria Schrader	Netflix
Watchmen^[11]	Nicole Kassell Stephen Williams Andrij Parekh Steph Green David Semel Frederick E.O. Toye	HBO
2021 ^[12] ^[13]	Mare of Easttown	Craig Zobel	HBO
Halston	Daniel Minahan	Netflix
Maid	John Wells Nzingha Stewart Lila Neugebauer Helen Shaver Quyen Tran	Netflix
Nine Perfect Strangers	Jonathan Levine	Hulu
The Underground Railroad	Barry Jenkins	Amazon Prime Video
2022 ^[14]	Black Bird	Michaël R. Roskam Jim McKay Joe Chappelle	Apple TV+
The Dropout	Michael Showalter Francesca Gregorini Erica Watson	Hulu
Inventing Anna	David Frankel Tom Verica Daisy von Scherler Mayer Ellen Kuras Nzingha Stewart	Netflix
The Staircase	Antonio Campos Leigh Janiak	HBO
The Watcher	Ryan Murphy Paris Barclay Jennifer Lynch Max Winkler	Netflix

Footnotes

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: 2007 Movies for Grownup Awards | Voice of America - English.
4. Web site: Movies for Grownups Awards 2021 Winners: The Full List. Tim. Appelo. AARP.
5. Web site: Movies for Grownups Awards 2003 with Bill Newcott.
6. Web site: Movies for Grownups Awards 2004 with Bill Newcott.
7. Web site: Winners and Runners-Up of Movies for Grownups Awards, 2006 with Bill N.
8. Web site: Movies for Grownups. CBS News.
9. Newcott . William R. . March 2006 . "Fifth Annual Movies for Grownups" . AARP the Magazine . 50–51 . Washington, DC.
10. Web site: AARP Movies for Grownups Awards: 'The United States vs. Billie Holiday' Named Best Picture. The Hollywood Reporter. 4 March 2021.
11. Watchmen aired all of its episodes in 2019. AARP did not issue an explanation as to why it was eligible for the awards for 2020/21.
12. Web site: 'Belfast' Tops Nominees for AARP Movies for Grownups Awards (Exclusive) . . 11 January 2022 .
13. Web site: AARP Movies for Grownups Awards: 'Belfast' Named Best Film; 'King Richard' Lone Double Winner – Full List. 19 March 2022.
14. Web site: 'The Fabelmans' Leads AARP's 2023 Movies for Grownups Awards Nominees .