AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Supporting Actor

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Awarded forBest Performance by an Actor over 50 in a Supporting Role
CountryUnited States
Presented byAARP
First awardTom Wilkinson for Michael Clayton (2007)
AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Supporting Actor
The 2025 recipient: Delroy Lindo
Awarded forBest Performance by an Actor over 50 in a Supporting Role
CountryUnited States
Presented byAARP
First awardTom Wilkinson for Michael Clayton (2007)
Currently held byDelroy Lindo for Sinners (2025)
Websitehttps://www.aarp.org/entertainment/movies-for-grownups/

The AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards presented annually by the AARP. The award honors an actor over the age of 50 who has given an outstanding performance in a film in a given year.[1] The awards for Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress were first given at the 7th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards in 2008.[2] Prior to that, the only individual acting awards were for Best Actor and Best Actress.

2000s

  indicates the winners.
Tom Wilkinson won the inaugural Best Supporting Actor award for his performance in Michael Clayton.
Year Actor Role(s) Film Ref.
2007
(7th) 		Tom Wilkinson Arthur Edens Michael Clayton [3]
Philip Bosco Lenny Savage The Savages
Homayoun Ershadi the Agha Sahib The Kite Runner
Andy Griffith Joe Waitress
Hal Holbrook Ron Franz Into the Wild
2008
(8th) 		Bill Irwin Paul Buchman Rachel Getting Married [4]
Bill Murray Mayor Cole City of Ember
John Malkovich Osbourne Cox Burn After Reading
Dennis Quaid Ben Schwartzwalder The Express: The Ernie Davis Story
Pierce Brosnan Sam Carmichael Mamma Mia!
2009
(9th) 		Alec Baldwin Jacob "Jake" Adler It's Complicated [5]
Eugene Levy Max Yasgur Taking Woodstock
Alfred Molina Jack Mellor An Education
Christopher Plummer Leo Tolstoy The Last Station
John Travolta Dennis "Ryder" Ford / Mr. Blue The Taking of Pelham 123

2010s

In Secretariat, John Malkovich became the first performer to win Best Supporting Actor for playing a real person.
Christopher Plummer became the oldest winner for his performance in Beginners.
Tom Cruise is the youngest nominee to date. He was just 50 when he was recognized for his performance in Rock of Ages.
Stephen McKinley Henderson's performance in Fences made him the first Black actor to be recognized with a Best Supporting Actor nomination.
Year Actor Role(s) Film Ref.
2010
(10th) 		John Malkovich Lucien Laurin Secretariat [6]
Geoffrey Rush Lionel Logue The King's Speech
Kevin Costner Jack Dolan The Company Men
Bill Murray Frank Quinn Get Low
Ben Kingsley Dr. John Cawley Shutter Island
2011
(11th) 		Christopher Plummer Hal Fields Beginners [7]
Jeremy Irons John Tuld Margin Call
Ben Kingsley Georges Méliès Hugo
Max von Sydow The Renter Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Christoph Waltz August Rosenbluth Water for Elephants
2012
(12th) 		John Goodman Harling Mays Flight [8]
Tom Cruise Stacee Jaxx Rock of Ages
Robert De Niro Patrizio "Pat" Solitano, Sr. Silver Linings Playbook
Tommy Lee Jones Thaddeus Stevens Lincoln
Tom Wilkinson Sir Graham Dashwood The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2013
(13th) 		Chris Cooper Charles Aiken, Sr. August: Osage County [9]
Steve Carell Trent Ramsey The Way Way Back
Tony Danza Jon Martello, Sr. Don Jon
John Goodman Roland Turner Inside Llewyn Davis
Bill Nighy James Lake About Time
2014
(14th) 		J. K. Simmons Terence Fletcher Whiplash [10][11]
Robert Duvall Judge Joseph Palmer The Judge
John Goodman Frank The Gambler
Don Johnson Jim Bob Luke Cold in July
Christoph Waltz Walter Keane Big Eyes
2015
(15th) 		Mark Rylance Rudolf Abel Bridge of Spies [12][13]
Jeff Daniels John Sculley Steve Jobs
Robert De Niro Rudy Mangano Joy
Michael Keaton Walter "Robbie" Robinson Spotlight
Sylvester Stallone Robert "Rocky" Balboa Creed
2016
(16th) 		Jeff Bridges Marcus Hamilton Hell or High Water [14]
Kevin Costner Al Harrison Hidden Figures
Stephen McKinley Henderson Jim Bono Fences
Issey Ogata Inoue Masashige Silence
Timothy Spall David Irving Denial
2017
(17th) 		Richard Jenkins Giles The Shape of Water [15]
Willem Dafoe Bobby Hicks The Florida Project
Laurence Fishburne Richard Mueller Last Flag Flying
Woody Harrelson Bill Willoughby Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Plummer J. Paul Getty All the Money in the World
2018
(18th) 		Richard E. Grant Jack Hock Can You Ever Forgive Me? [16][17]
Robert Duvall Tom Mulligan Widows
Sam Elliott Bobby Maine A Star is Born
Robert Forster Norbert Everhardt What They Had
Ian McKellen Earl of Southampton All Is True
2019
(19th) 		Tom Hanks Fred Rogers A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood [18][19]
Jamie Foxx Walter McMillian Just Mercy
Anthony Hopkins Pope Benedict XVI The Two Popes
Al Pacino Jimmy Hoffa The Irishman
Brad Pitt Cliff Booth Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

2020s

Year Actor Role(s) Film Ref.
2020
(20th) 		Demián Bichir Miguel Borrás Land [20][21]
Bill Murray Felix Keane On the Rocks
Clarke Peters Otis Da 5 Bloods
Paul Raci Joe Sound of Metal
Mark Rylance William Kunstler The Trial of the Chicago 7
2021
(21st) 		Jared Leto Paolo Gucci House of Gucci [22][23]
Ciarán Hinds "Pop" Belfast
J.K. Simmons William Frawley Being the Ricardos
Timothy Spall Equerry Major Alistair Gregory Spencer
David Strathairn Pete Krumbein Nightmare Alley
2022
(22nd) 		Judd Hirsch Boris Podgorny The Fabelmans
Andre Braugher Dean Baquet She Said
Brendan Gleeson Colm Doherty The Banshees of Inisherin
Woody Harrelson sjökapten Triangle of Sadness
Ke Huy Quan Waymond Wang Everything Everywhere All at Once
2023
(23rd) 		Robert De Niro William King Hale Killers of the Flower Moon
Willem Dafoe Dr. Godwin Baxter Poor Things
Colman Domingo Albert "Mister" Johnson The Color Purple
Robert Downey Jr. Lewis Strauss Oppenheimer
Mark Ruffalo Duncan Wedderburn Poor Things
2024
(24th) 		Peter Sarsgaard Roone Arledge September 5
Clarence Maclin Himself Sing Sing
Guy Pearce Harrison Lee Van Buren The Brutalist
Stanley Tucci Cardinal Aldo Bellini Conclave
Denzel Washington Macrinus Gladiator II
2025
(25th) 		Delroy Lindo Delta Slim Sinners
Benicio del Toro Sergio St. Carlos One Battle After Another
Sean Penn Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw One Battle After Another
Michael Shannon Robert H. Jackson Nuremberg
Stellan Skarsgård Gustav Borg Sentimental Value

Actors with multiple nominations

The following individuals received multiple Best Supporting Actor nominations:

Nominations Actor
3 Robert De Niro
John Goodman
Bill Murray
Christopher Plummer
2 Kevin Costner
Willem Dafoe
Robert Duvall
Woody Harrelson
Ben Kingsley
John Malkovich
Mark Rylance
J.K. Simmons
Timothy Spall
Christoph Waltz
Tom Wilkinson

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