AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Screenwriter

AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Screenwriter
AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Screenwriter
Awarded for	Best screenplay by a writer over 50
Country	United States
Presented by	AARP
First award	David Hare for The Hours (2002)
Currently held by	Paul Thomas Anderson for One Battle After Another (2025)
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]

Awarded forBest screenplay by a writer over 50

CountryUnited States

Presented byAARP

First awardDavid Hare for The Hours (2002)

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Year	Film	Nominees
2002 (2nd) ^[2]	*The Hours*	David Hare
	Gangs of New York	Jay Cocks
	The Quiet American	Christopher Hampton
	The Pianist	Ronald Harwood
2003 (3rd) ^[3]	In America	Jim Sheridan
	Something's Gotta Give	Nancy Meyers
	Cold Mountain	Anthony Minghella
	Casa de los Babys	John Sayles
2004 (4th) ^[4]	Spider-Man 2	Alvin Sargent
	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 Ossana
	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. & Paul Haggis
	Boynton Beach Club	Susan Seidelman, David Cramer & Florence Seidelman
	For Your Consideration	Christopher Guest & Eugene Levy
	Keeping Mum	Richard Russo
	Catch a Fire	Shawn Slovo
2007 (7th) ^[9]^[10]^[11]	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Ronald Harwood
	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 Straczynski
	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 Meyers
	A Serious Man	Joel and Ethan Coen
	Julie & Julia	Nora Ephron
	Taking Woodstock	James Schamus

Year	Film	Nominees
2010 (10th) ^[16]^[17]	The Company Men	John Wells
	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 Allen
	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 Lewin
	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 Hawke
	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 Strayed
	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. Russell
	Brooklyn	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 Lonergan
	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 Sorkin
	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 Whitty
	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
	Harriet	Kasi Lemmons & Gregory Allen Howard
	The Two Popes	Anthony McCarten
	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Quentin Tarantino
	The Irishman	Steven Zaillian

Year	Film	Nominees
2020/21 (20th) ^[34]^[35]	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Aaron Sorkin
	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 Kushner
	Licorice Pizza	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Belfast	Kenneth Branagh
	The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion
	Nightmare Alley	Guillermo del Toro & Kim Morgan
2022 (22nd) ^[38]	Living	Kazuo Ishiguro
	TÁR	Todd Field
	The Fabelmans	Tony Kushner & Steven Spielberg
	She Said	Rebecca Lenkiewicz
	The Woman King	Dana Stevens
2023 (23rd)	Barbie	Noah Baumbach & Greta Gerwig
	The Holdovers	David Hemingson
	Poor Things	Tony McNamara
	Oppenheimer	Christopher Nolan
	Killers of the Flower Moon	Martin Scorsese & Eric Roth
2024 (24th)	Wicked	Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox
	Emilia Pérez	Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain & Nicolas Livecchi
	A Complete Unknown	Jay Cocks & James Mangold
	Conclave	Peter Straughan
	Dune: Part Two	Denis Villeneuve & Jon Spaihts
2025 (25th)	One Battle After Another	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Jay Kelly	Noah Baumbach & Emily Mortimer
	Is This Thing On?	Bradley Cooper, Will Arnett & Mark Chappell
	Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale	Julian Fellowes
	Nuremberg	James Vanderbilt

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

AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Screenwriter

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