RunnersUpYoung Heart Seniors singing their hearts outChris and Don

Neitherstrident nor overbearing, Sister Aloysius, with her nervously darting eyes andthe occasional shadow of a smile, eventually gains our confidence, whether shetruly deserves it or not.Runners-Up:Frances McDormand, Burn After ReadingCatherine Deneuve, A Christmas TaleAlfre Woodard, The Family That PreysAnnette Benning, The WomenBest Actor 50 and Over: Frank Langella, Frost/NixonClearly, director Ron Howard knew exactly what he had in his leading man. Andso he had the surpassingly good sense to simply stand back and let the camerarun for Frank Langella's towering performance as Richard Nixon. Maddeninglypompous, pitifully insecure, Langella's Nixon smolders with the legendary mixof contradictions that define the real Richard Nixon as one of history's mostintriguing figures. Langella reveals more of Nixon than a library ofbiographies ever could.Runners-Up: Mickey Rourke, The WrestlerClint Eastwood, Gran TorinoChris Cooper, Married LifeRichard Jenkins, The VisitorBest Supporting Actor 50 and Over: Bill Irwin, Rachel Getting MarriedA powerful portrait of powerlessness, Irwin's father of the bride in RachelGetting Married is a heartbreaking look at a man tortured by loss. Ashattering chapter in his past is inevitably brought to the surface when hisdaughter Kym (Anne Hathaway) is released from in-patient rehab to come homefor her sister's nuptials.Runners-Up:Bill Murray, City of EmberJohn Malkovich, Burn After ReadingDennis Quaid, The ExpressPierce Brosnan, Mamma Mia!Best Supporting Actress 50 and Over: Christine Baranski and Julie Walters,Mamma Mia!There's no way to separate the stars who play Meryl Streep's best pals inMamma Mia! Baranski stops just short of stealing the show with her brassybroadsides. And while at first blush it seems a mistake to entrust Walterswith the signature ABBA song "Take a Chance on Me," what she lacks in pipesshe more than makes up in panache.Runners-Up:Kim Cattrall, Sex and the City: The MovieBette Midler, Then She Found MeDebra Winger, Rachel Getting MarriedCloris Leachman, The WomenBest Director 50 and Over: Gus Van Sant, Milk For his brilliant filming and ingenious casting decisions particularly thechameleon-like Sean Penn in the title role as America's first gay man electedto major office Van Sant's smartest move in directing Milk was to cast thecity of San Francisco as itself.Runners-Up:Danny Boyle, Slumdog MillionaireJonathan Demme, Rachel Getting MarriedRon Howard, Frost/NixonJohn Patrick Shanley, DoubtBest Screenwriter 50 and Over: J.

Michael Straczynski, The ChangelingHe's forged a career as one of television's top writers of fantasy and sciencefiction creating the space series "Babylon 5" and numerous scripts for thelatter-day version of "The Twilight Zone." And although The Changeling isbased on a true story, Straczynski's tale of a mother's search for herkidnapped son and the citywide corruption it uncovers churns with aneerie sci-fi atmosphere and dizzying sense of disorientation.Runners-Up:John Patrick Shanley, DoubtEric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonWoody Allen, Vicky Christina BarcelonaJoel and Ethan Cohen, Burn After ReadingBest Grownup Love Story: Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson, Last Chance HarveyHe's short, 60-ish and miserable; she's gangly, 40-something, and adrift. Yetthere was no more appealing couple on the screen last year than this superstarpairing, fumbling through the missteps and epiphanies of midlife love.Runners-Up:Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan, Mamma Mia!Richard Gere and Diane Lane, Nights at RodantheHarrison Ford and Karen Allen, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of theCrystal SkullRichard Jenkins and Mary Steenburgen, Step BrothersBest Comedy for Grownups:Ghost Town The trailers threatened something awful a cross between Ghost and The SixthSense. But a super-smart script by David Koepp and John Kamps, and a perfectoil-and-water combo of Ricky Gervais as a dead-to-the-world dentist and GregKinnear as an actually dead lothario (back to resolve unfinished familybusiness) make this most grownup comedy of the year also the funniest.Runners-Up:What Just HappenedSmart PeopleBaby MamaBe Kind, RewindBest Intergenerational Film: The Visitor In the breakout performance of his career, Richard Jenkins stars as aprofessor who plans to stay in his underused Manhattan apartment whileattending a conference and finds a young illegal immigrant couple fromSyria living there. Revisiting thefeat 35 years later through seldom-seen footage and new interviews andheartbreaking visions of post-9/11 Ground Zero we discover that, with thepassage of time, an event that meant one thing then can take on a whole newkind of significance now.Runners-Up:Young Heart - Seniors singing their hearts outChris and Don. But as their families spiral into chaos, their own relationshipdeepens, and they satisfy their mutual need by taking off on a just-us-girlsroad trip.Runners-Up:Mamma Mia!The WomenSoul MenBest Movie for Grownups Who Refuse to Grow Up: Iron ManLet's hear it for the middle-aged superhero! In the title role, Robert Downey,Jr. infuses his character with all the frustrations, insecurities, and regretsthat go with having put in four decades or so on this planet and finds thebest kind of therapy in a really cool flying suit.Runners-Up:Wall-EKung Fu PandaCity of EmberMarley & MeVisit to read the full lineup of the 2009 Moviesfor Grownups(R) award winners.About AARP The Magazine With more than 34 million readers nationwide, AARP The Magazine() is the world's largest circulation magazine and thedefinitive lifestyle publication for Americans 50.

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