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. The ceremony was hosted by actors Dana Delany and Peter Gallagher on February 7, 2011 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles. 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.
Awards Winners and Nominees
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (). 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 Danny Boyle – 127 Hours Paul Greengrass - Green Zone Paul Haggis - The Next Three Days Tony Scott - Unstoppable John Wells - The Company Men Colin Firth - The King's Speech Michael Caine - Harry Brown Michael Douglas - Solitary Man Robert Duvall - Get Low Kevin Spacey - Casino Jack 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 John Malkovich - Secretariat Geoffrey Rush - The King's Speech Kevin Costner - The Company Men Bill Murray - Get Low Ben Kingsley - Shutter Island 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 City Island Date Night Flipped Red 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 Unstoppable Flipped The Karate Kid The Kids Are All Right That Evening Sun Touching Home 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 The Karate Kid Alice in Wonderland Diary of a Wimpy Kid How to Train Your Dragon Toy Story 3 Waste Land Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work Waiting for "Superman" Marwencol Farewell - France A Film Unfinished - Israel and Germany The First Beautiful Thing - Italy Mother - South Korea Peepli Live - India |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
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."
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."
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
+ Films that received multiple awards Wins Film 3 The King's Speech
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