Landing for four nods each, the Alfonso Cuaron's drama and the Viggo Mortensen's dramedy are up against each other for the Best Picture and Best Director prizes.
- Jan 4, 2019
AceShowbiz - "Roma" and "Green Book" will be the films to beat at the 2019 Movies for Grownups Awards after scoring four nominations each.
The two dramas are nominated for Best Picture, facing off with "A Star Is Born", "BlackKklansman", and "Can You Ever Forgive Me?", while "Roma"'s Alfonso Cuaron and "Green Book"'s Peter Farrelly will compete for Best Director, against Spike Lee ("BlackKklansman"), Mimi Leder ("On the Basis of Sex"), and Kenneth Branagh ("All Is True").
Viggo Mortensen ("Green Book") will fight for Best Actor alongside Willem Dafoe ("At Eternity's Gate"), Hugh Jackman ("The Front Runner"), Robert Redford ("The Old Man & the Gun"), and John C. Reilly ("Stan & Ollie"), while the Best Actress prize will be decided between Sandra Bullock ("Bird Box), Nicole Kidman ("Destroyer"), Julia Roberts ("Ben Is Back"), Glenn Close ("The Wife"), and Viola Davis ("Widows").
"Green Book" also picks up a nod in the Best Screenwriter category, while "Roma"'s remaining nominations are for Best Time Capsule, celebrating stories which capture a real-life moment in history, and Best Foreign Film.
"Widows", "Black Panther", and "Crazy Rich Asians" are among the other multiple nominees for the AARP's 18th annual Movies for Grownups Awards, which will take place in Los Angeles on 4 February.
Shirley MacLaine will be honoured with the event's annual Movies For Grownups Career Achievement Award.
The full list of nominations is:
Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups:
Best Actress:
- Sandra Bullock ("Bird Box")
- Glenn Close ("The Wife")
- Viola Davis ("Widows")
- Nicole Kidman ("Destroyer")
- Julia Roberts ("Ben Is Back")
Best Actor:
- Willem Dafoe ("At Eternity's Gate")
- Hugh Jackman ("The Front Runner")
- Viggo Mortensen ("Green Book")
- Robert Redford ("The Old Man & the Gun")
- John C. Reilly ("Stan & Ollie")
Best Supporting Actress:
- Angela Bassett ("Black Panther")
- Blythe Danner ("What They Had")
- Judi Dench ("All Is True")
- Nicole Kidman ("Boy Erased")
- Michelle Yeoh ("Crazy Rich Asians")
Best Supporting Actor:
- Robert Duvall ("Widows")
- Sam Elliott ("A Star Is Born")
- Robert Forster ("What They Had")
- Richard E. Grant ("Can You Ever Forgive Me?")
- Ian McKellen ("All Is True")
Best Director:
- Kenneth Branagh ("All Is True")
- Alfonso Cuaron ("Roma")
- Peter Farrelly ("Green Book")
- Mimi Leder ("On the Basis of Sex")
- Spike Lee ("BlacKkKlansman")
Best Screenwriter:
- Peter Farrelly, Brian Hayes Currie, and Nick Vallelonga ("Green Book")
- Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara ("The Favourite")
- Peter Hedges ("Ben Is Back")
- Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty ("Can You Ever Forgive Me?")
- Paul Schrader ("First Reformed")
Best Ensemble:
Best Grownup Love Story:
Best Intergenerational Film:
Best Time Capsule:
Best Documentary:
- "Amazing Grace (2019)"
- "Bathtubs Over Broadway"
- "RBG"
- "The Rest I Make Up"
- "Won't You Be My Neighbor?"
Best Foreign Film:
- "Cold War" (Poland, France, U.K.)
- "Never Look Away" (Germany)
- "Roma" (Mexico)
- "Shoplifters" (Japan)
- "The Guilty" (Denmark)