Once again, as everyone gears up for the Academy Awards and the presentations of the Oscars on Feb. 26, AARP has released its own movie awards, these for the grown-ups -- you know, Baby Boomers and the like.
There’s a lot in the two that overlap, but as AARP says about its 11th annual “Best Movies for Grownups’: “...our editor’s choices this year defy expectations. And that’s the way we like it.”
We’ll see. For comparison, the list of Academy Award nominees is here.
And here are the AARP winners.
To summarize:
Best Movie for Grownups: “The Descendents.” AARP asks: “Is there any brand of 50-plus angst this runny, tragic film does not bissect?”
Actress: Glenn Close in “Albert Nobbs.” Said AARP: “The miracle of Close’s performance is how she ushers us behind Albert’s guarded expression so that we, too, experience her perpetual terror of being exposed … and share her secret passions.”
Actor: Oliver Litondo in “The First Grader.” Said AARP: “From his tentative first moments at his small desk to his haunted eyes as he recalls his family’s murder, Litondo’s Maruge is a man who won’t give up on life, even when it has seemingly given up on him.”
Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer in “Beginners.”
Supporting Actress: Vanessa Redgrave in “Coriolanus.”
Director: Stephen Daldry for “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.”
And you gotta love this one:
Movie For Grownups Who Refuse To Grow Up: “The Muppets.” AARP said the movie “effects a jubilant juncture of those who grew up with the gang and a new audience just discovering them.”
You also gotta love the fact that, at 56, Kermit the Frog is a Baby Boomer too.
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