AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Supporting Actress

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Awarded forBest Performance by an Actress over 50 in a Supporting Role
CountryUnited States
Presented byAARP
First awardRuby Dee for American Gangster (2007)
AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Supporting Actress
The 2025 recipient: Regina Hall
Awarded forBest Performance by an Actress over 50 in a Supporting Role
CountryUnited States
Presented byAARP
First awardRuby Dee for American Gangster (2007)
Currently held byRegina Hall for One Battle After Another (2025)
Websitehttps://www.aarp.org/entertainment/movies-for-grownups/

The AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards presented annually by the AARP. The award honors an actress over the age of 50 who has given an outstanding supporting performance in a film in a given year.[1] The awards for Supporting Actress and Supporting Actor 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.
Ruby Dee was the first and, to date, oldest winner of Best Supporting Actress, for her role in American Gangster.
Year Actress Role(s) Film Ref.
2007
(7th) 		Ruby Dee ‡ Mama Lucas American Gangster [3]
Jane Asher Sandra Death at a Funeral
Olympia Dukakis Marian Away from Her
Fernanda Montenegro Tránsito Ariza Love in the Time of Cholera
Vanessa Redgrave Briony Tallis Atonement
2008
(8th) 		Christine Baranski ‡ (tie) Tanya Chesham-Leigh Mamma Mia! [4]
Julie Walters ‡ (tie) Rosie Mulligan Mamma Mia!
Kim Cattrall Samantha Jones Sex and the City
Bette Midler Bernice Graves Then She Found Me
Debra Winger Abby Buchman Rachel Getting Married
Cloris Leachman Maggie The Women
2009
(9th) 		Kim Basinger ‡ Gina The Burning Plain [5]
Judi Dench Liliane La Fleur Nine
Marcia Gay Harden Brooke Cavendar Whip It
Susan Sarandon Grandma Lynn The Lovely Bones
Imelda Staunton Sonia Teichberg Taking Woodstock

2010s

Vanessa Redgrave was the first solo winner born outside the United States.
Rene Russo's win for Nightcrawler was her first professional award besides a win for Best Kiss at the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards.[6]
At 51 years old, Viola Davis's win for Fences made her the youngest recipient of Best Supporting Actress to date.
In addition to her three nominations and one win for Supporting Actress, Judi Dench has seven nominations and two wins for Best Actress.
Year Actress Role(s) Film Ref.
2010
(10th) 		Phylicia Rashad ‡ Gilda ("Lady in Black") For Colored Girls [7]
Gemma Jones Helena Shepridge You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Diane Keaton Colleen Peck Morning Glory
Melissa Leo Alice Eklund-Ward The Fighter
Sissy Spacek Mattie Darrow Get Low
2011
(11th) 		Vanessa Redgrave ‡ Volumnia Coriolanus [8]
Ellen Burstyn Doris Another Happy Day
Judi Dench Anna Marie Hoover J. Edgar
Allison Janney Charlotte Phelan The Help
Janet McTeer Hubert Page Albert Nobbs
2012
(12th) 		Jacki Weaver ‡ Dolores Solitano Silver Linings Playbook [9]
Sally Field Mary Todd Lincoln Lincoln
Catherine Keener Juliette Gelbart A Late Quartet
Shirley MacLaine Marjorie "Margie" Nugent Bernie
Frances McDormand Sue Thomason Promised Land
2013
(13th) 		Oprah Winfrey ‡ Gloria Gaines Lee Daniels' The Butler [10]
Allison Janney Betty Thompson The Way Way Back
Margo Martindale Mattie Fae Aiken August: Osage County
Julianne Moore Esther Don Jon
June Squibb Kate Grant Nebraska
2014
(14th) 		Rene Russo ‡ Nina Romina Nightcrawler [11]
[12]
Susan Sarandon Florence Aadland The Last of Robin Hood
Meryl Streep The Witch Into the Woods
Marisa Tomei Kate Hull Love is Strange
Laura Dern Bobbi Grey Wild
2015
(15th) 		Diane Ladd ‡ Mimi Joy [13]
[14]
Joan Allen Nancy Newsome Room
Jane Fonda Brenda Morel Youth
Helen Mirren Hedda Hopper Trumbo
Cynthia Nixon Gail White James White
2016
(16th) 		Viola Davis ‡ Rose Lee Maxson Fences [15]
Nicole Kidman Sue Brierly Lion
Helen Mirren Col. Katherine Powell Eye in the Sky
Molly Shannon Joanne Mulcahey Other People
Sigourney Weaver Mrs. Clayton / Grandma A Monster Calls
2017
(17th) 		Laurie Metcalf ‡ Marion McPherson Lady Bird [16]
Holly Hunter Beth Gardner The Big Sick
Allison Janney LaVona Golden I, Tonya
Melissa Leo Reverend Mother Marie Saint-Clair Novitiate
Lesley Manville Cyril Woodcock Phantom Thread
2018
(18th) 		Judi Dench ‡ Anne Hathaway All Is True [17]
[18]
Angela Bassett Ramonda Black Panther
Blythe Danner Ruth Everhardt What They Had
Nicole Kidman Nancy Eamons Boy Erased
Michelle Yeoh Eleanor Sung-Young Crazy Rich Asians
2019
(19th) 		Laura Dern ‡ Nora Fanshaw Marriage Story [19]
[20]
Nicole Kidman Gretchen Carlson Bombshell
Jennifer Lopez Ramona Vega Hustlers
Zhao Shu-zhen Nai Nai The Farewell
Maggie Smith Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham Downton Abbey

2020s

Jodie Foster won twice for her performances in The Mauritanian (2020) and Nyad (2023), making her the most awarded woman in this category.
Year Actor Role(s) Film Ref.
2020
(20th) 		Jodie Foster ‡ Nancy Hollander The Mauritanian [21]
[22]
Candice Bergen Roberta Let Them All Talk
Ellen Burstyn Elizabeth Weiss Pieces of a Woman
Glenn Close Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance Hillbilly Elegy
Youn Yuh-jung Soon-ja Minari
2021
(21st) 		Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor‡ Oracene "Brandy" Price King Richard [23]
[24]
Cate Blanchett Lilith Ritter Nightmare Alley
Judi Dench Granny Belfast
Marlee Matlin Jackie Rossi CODA
Rita Moreno Valentina West Side Story
2022
(22nd) 		Judith Ivey‡ Agata Women Talking
Angela Bassett Ramonda Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Patricia Clarkson Rebecca Corbett She Said
Jamie Lee Curtis Deirdre Beaubeirdre Everything Everywhere All at Once
Gabrielle Union Inez French The Inspection
2023
(23rd) 		Jodie Foster‡ Bonnie Stoll Nyad
Viola Davis Deloris Jordan Air
Taraji P. Henson Shug Avery The Color Purple
Julianne Moore Gracie May December
Leslie Uggams Agnes Ellison American Fiction
2024
(24th) 		Joan Chen‡ Chungsing Wang Dìdi
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor Hattie Nickel Boys
Lesley Manville Dr. Cotter Queer
Connie Nielsen Lucilla Gladiator II
Isabella Rossellini Sister Agnes Conclave
2025
(25th) 		Regina Hall‡ Deandra One Battle After Another
Amy Madigan Gladys Weapons
Helen Mirren June Goodbye June
Gwyneth Paltrow Kay Stone Marty Supreme
Sigourney Weaver Dr. Grace Augustine Avatar: Fire and Ash

Actors with multiple wins and nominations

The following individuals received multiple Best Supporting Actress nominations:

Multiple wins

Wins Actor
2
 Jodie Foster

Multiple nominations

Nominations Actress
4 Judi Dench
3 Allison Janney
Nicole Kidman
Helen Mirren
2 Angela Bassett
Ellen Burstyn
Viola Davis
Laura Dern
Jodie Foster
Melissa Leo
Julianne Moore
Vanessa Redgrave
Susan Sarandon
Sigourney Weaver

Age superlatives

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