Top Gun: Maverick won the grand prize for best picture at AARP’s Movies for Grownups Awards on Saturday.
“I’ve produced over 50 films and more than 2,000 hours of television, but there was one question that kept everyone asking themselves: ‘Will there ever be Top Gun again?'” said Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of Maverick. . “After almost four decades, all the pieces came together and we finally released the highly anticipated sequel, just when everyone seemed to need it most.”
Elvis director Baz Luhrmann received the Best Director award from the film’s star, Austin Butler, and the biopic also won the Best Time Capsule category. “The Old Man,” which was renewed for a second season in June 2022, enjoyed similar success at the ceremony, with lead actor Jeff Bridges taking home the award for Best Television Actor. The show did well overall and also won in the Best TV Series category.
Movies for Grownups, hosted by Alan Cumming, was held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. Jamie Lee Curtis was honored with the Career Achievement Award presented by Brian Tyree Henry.
The awards will be streamed nationally by Great Performances on February 17 at 9pm PT/8pm CT on PBS, pbs.org/moviesforgrownups and the PBS Video App.
Below is a full list of winners:
career success: Jamie Lee Curtis
Best Film/Best Adult Film: “Top Gun: Maverick”
Best Actress: Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere at Once”)
Best actorCast: Brendan Fraser (“The Whale”)
The best supporting actress: Judith Ivey (“Women Talking”)
Best supporting actor: Judd Hirsch (“The Fablemans”)
Best Director: Baz Luhrmann (“Elvis”)
Best Screenwriter: Kazuo Ishiguro (“Life”)
Best Ensemble: “She said”
Best Intergenerational: “Until”
Best time capsule: “Elvis”
Best Adult Love Story: “Good luck to you, Leo Grande”
Best Documentary: “Gabby Giffords will not back down”
Best Foreign Film: “The Quiet Girl” (Ireland)
Best Lead Actress (TV): Sheryl Lee Ralph (“Abbott Elementary School”)
Best Actor (TV): Jeff Bridges (“The Old Man”)
Best TV Series: “The old man”
Best TV Movie/Best Limited Series: “Black bird”