Announcing AARP’s 2023 Movies for Grownups Awards Nominees

AARPs annual Movies for Grownups Awards are back, live from Californias historic Beverly Wilshire Hotel and youre invited!

ET (check local listings), onpbs.org/moviesforgrownupsand the PBS Video app.

But every honored title is significant.

Thanks to AARP and its viewers, theres more to Hollywood than young stars in superhero spandex.

But movies for grownups are thriving,on big and small screens.

Here are the ones to watch, the latest nominees for the Movies for Grownups Awards.

Austin Butler performing on stage in the film Elvis and Judd Hirsch at a dinner table in The Fabelmans

Steven Spielbergfictionalizes his own life story in a touching film about a teen genius obsessed and possessed by movies.

Best Director

Nothing in film history could top his No.

1 CGI blockbusterAvatar except possibly his even more eye-poppingAvatar: The Way of Water.

Lesley Manville holding a suitcase in the film Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris and Cate Blanchett conducting a performance in Tár

Only a talent as extravagant as Luhrmann could capture the iconic singers soul inElvis.

Bythewood sawBraveheart100 times, and outdid it with her own movie about heroes routing invaders.

Sisterhood was never more powerful onscreen.

The Fabelmanstransforms Spielbergs youth into a coming-of-age tale thats also a deep story about grownups love and sorrow.

InLiving, he gets (at last!)

The comedian proves himself a master of dramaas an NBA talent scout inHustle.

As a self-destructive egomaniac genius inTar, she has perfect pitch.

In the summers feel-good hitMrs.

Hes feckin fantastic as the most irritable Irishman on the island inThe Banshees of Inisherin.