AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Screenwriter

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AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Screenwriter
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Country United States
Presented by AARP
First awarded 2003 (for films released during the 2002 film season)
Currently held by Tony Kushner
West Side Story (2021)
Official website https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/movies-for-grownups/

The AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Screenwriter is one of the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards presented annually by the AARP. The award honors a screenwriter over the age of 50 who has written an outstanding supporting screenplay for a film produced in a given year.[1] The award for Best Screenwriter was first given in 2003, when the awards expanded beyond their initial categories of Best Movie for Grownups, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Documentary, Best Foreign Film, and Best Movie for Grownups Who Refuse to Grow Up.[1]

Winners and Nominees

  indicates the winners.

2000s

Year Film Nominees
2002
(2nd)
[2]		 The Hours David HareAward winner
Gangs of New York Jay Cocks
The Quiet American Christopher Hampton
The Pianist Ronald Harwood
2003
(3rd)
[3]		 In America Jim SheridanAward winner
Something's Gotta Give Nancy Meyers
Cold Mountain Anthony Minghella
Casa de los Babys John Sayles
2004
(4th)
[4]		 Spider-Man 2 Alvin SargentAward winner
Bad Education Pedro Almodóvar
Spanglish James L. Brooks
Million Dollar Baby Paul Haggis & F.X. Toole
2005
(5th)
[5][6]		 Brokeback Mountain Larry McMurtry & Diana OssanaAward winner
Bad Education. Pedro Almodóvar
Crash Paul Haggis
Broken Flowers Jim Jarmusch
Yes Sally Potter
2006
(6th)
[7][8]		 Flags of Our Fathers William Broyles Jr. and Paul HaggisAward winner
Boynton Beach Club Susan Seidelman, David Cramer, and Florence Seidelman
For Your Consideration Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy
Keeping Mum Richard Russo
Catch a Fire Shawn Slovo
2007
(7th)
[9][10][11]		 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Ronald HarwoodAward winner
No Country for Old Men Joel and Ethan Coen
In the Valley of Elah Paul Haggis
Atonement Christopher Hampton
American Gangster Steven Zaillian
2008
(8th)
[12][13]		 Changeling J. Michael StraczynskiAward winner
Vicky Cristina Barcelona Woody Allen
Burn After Reading Joel and Ethan Coen
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Eric Roth
Doubt John Patrick Shanley
2009
(9th)
[14][15]		 It's Complicated Nancy MeyersAward winner
A Serious Man Joel and Ethan Coen
Julie & Julia Nora Ephron
Taking Woodstock James Schamus

2010s

Year Film Nominees
2010
(10th)
[16][17]		 The Company Men John WellsAward winner
True Grit Joel and Ethan Coen
The Next Three Days Paul Haggis
Another Year Mike Leigh
The King's Speech David Seidler
2011
(11th)
[18][19]		 Midnight in Paris Woody AllenAward winner
The Descendants Alexander Payne
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Eric Roth
A Better Life Roger Simon
Moneyball Steven Zaillian & Aaron Sorkin
2012
(12th)
[20][21][22][23][24]		 The Sessions Ben LewinAward winner
Amour Michael Haneke
Lincoln Tony Kushner
Hyde Park on Hudson Richard Nelson
Silver Linings Playbook David O. Russell
2013
(13th)
[25][9]		 Before Midnight Richard Linklater with Julie Delpy and Ethan HawkeAward winner
Inside Llewyn Davis Joel and Ethan Coen
About Time Richard Curtis
Enough Said Nicole Holofcener
American Hustle David O. Russell & Eric Warren Singer
2014
(14th)
[26]		 Wild Nick Hornby & Cheryl StrayedAward winner
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Alejandro González Iñárritu
Into the Woods James Lapine
Boyhood Richard Linklater
The Theory of Everything Anthony McCarten
2015
(15th)
[27][9][28]		 Joy David O. RussellAward winner
Brooklyn Hornby|Nick Hornby
The Intern Nancy Meyers
Love & Mercy Oren Moverman & Michael Alan Lerner
Steve Jobs Aaron Sorkin
2016
(16th)
[29]		 Manchester by the Sea Kenneth LonerganAward winner
Julieta Pedro Almodovar
Silence Jay Cocks & Martin Scorsese
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them J.K. Rowling
Fences August Wilson
2017
(17th)
[30][31]		 Molly's Game Aaron SorkinAward winner
The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro
Call Me By Your Name James Ivory
Darkest Hour Anthony McCarten
I, Tonya Steven Rogers
2018
(18th)
[32]		 Can You Ever Forgive Me? Nicole Holofcener & Jeff WhittyAward winner
Green Book Peter Farrelly, Brian Hayes Curie, & Nick Vallelonga
The Favourite Deborah Davis & Tony McNamara
Ben Is Back Peter Hedges
First Reformed Paul Schrader
2019
(19th)
[33][9]		 Marriage Story Noah Baumbach; Story: BongAward winner
Harriet Kasi Lemmons & Gregory Allen Howard
The Two Popes Anthony McCarten
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Quentin Tarantino
The Irishman Steven Zaillian

2020s

Year Film Nominees
2020/21[34]
(20th)

[35]		 The Trial of the Chicago 7 Aaron SorkinAward winner
Da 5 Bloods Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Ruben Santiago Hudson
News of the World Paul Greengrass & Luke Davies
One Night in Miami... Kemp Powers
2021
(21st)
[36][37]		 West Side Story Tony KushnerAward winner
Licorice Pizza Paul Thomas Anderson
Belfast Kenneth Branagh
The Power of the Dog Jane Campion
Nightmare Alley Guillermo del Toro and Kim Morgan

Writers with multiple nominations and wins

Age superlatives

Record Screenwriter Film Age (in years)
Oldest winner Alvin Sargent Spider-Man 2 77
Oldest nominee James Ivory Call Me By Your Name 89
Youngest winner Ethan Hawke Before Midnight 44
Youngest nominee Ethan Hawke Before Midnight 44

See also

References

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