The 6th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards, presented by AARP the Magazine, honored films released in 2006 made by people over the age of 50. The ceremony was held at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles on February 6, 2007. Alan Arkin won the inaugural Career Achievement Award, and Terry Bradshaw won the award for Breakaway Accomplishment for his performance in Failure to Launch.
This was the first year to feature five nominees in the Best Actress category, and the last year in which candidates were not nominated for Supporting Actor or Supporting Actress.
Awards Winners and Nominees
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (). The Last King of Scotland Aurora Borealis Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima Little Miss Sunshine The Queen Clint Eastwood – Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima Bill Condon - Dreamgirls Stephen Frears - The Queen Paul Greengrass - United 93 Martin Scorsese - The Departed Donald Sutherland - Aurora Borealis Gabriel Byrne - Wah-Wah Samuel L. Jackson - Freedomland Jack Nicholson - The Departed Peter O'Toole - Venus Helen Mirren - The Queen Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal Catherine O'Hara - For Your Consideration Maggie Smith - Keeping Mum Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada Little Miss Sunshine Failure to Launch For Your Consideration Keeping Mum Thank You for Smoking William Broyles Jr. and Paul Haggis - Flags of Our Fathers Susan Seidelman, David Cramer, and Florence Seidelman - Boynton Beach Club Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy - For Your Consideration Richard Russo - Keeping Mum Shawn Slovo - Catch a Fire Hollywoodland Bobby Flags of Our Fathers Glory Road The Queen Akeelah and the Bee Aurora Borealis Brooklyn Lobster Little Miss Sunshine Quinceañera Blythe Danner and Tom Wilkinson - The Last Kiss Louise Fletcher and Donald Sutherland - Aurora Borealis Sally Kellerman and Len Cariou - Boynton Beach Club Kristin Scott Thomas and Rowan Atkinson - Keeping Mum Naomi Watts and Edward Norton - The Painted Veil Lassie Charlotte's Web Nacho Libre Nanny McPhee Night at the Museum 51 Birch Street 49 Up An Inconvenient Truth Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater Wordplay The Lives of Others - Germany The Young Lieutenant - France The Syrian Bride - Israel Volver - Spain Water - India
Career Achievement Award Alan Arkin
Breakaway Accomplishment Terry Bradshaw: "The Hall of Fame quarterback and Fox NFL Sunday host comes awfully close [to stardom] in this, his first major film role... He's riotously exasperated as a dad with a stay-at-home son — but the real eyeopener is the tenderness of his performance with the wonderful Kathy Bates as his wife."
Films with multiple nominations and wins
+ Films that received multiple nominations Nominations Film 4 Aurora Borealis Flags of Our Fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima The Queen 3 For Your Consideration Keeping Mum Little Miss Sunshine 2 Boynton Beach Club The Departed
+ Films that received multiple awards Wins Film 2 Flags of Our Fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima
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