AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Intergenerational Film

The AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Intergenerational Film is one of the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards presented annually by AARP the Magazine. The award honors the film with the best portrayal of relationships between people of different ages.^[1] The award for Best Intergenerational Film was first given in 2003, when the awards expanded beyond their initial four categories of Best Movie for Grownups, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress.^[2]

AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Intergenerational Film
Awarded for	Best film highlighting positive intergenerational relationships
Country	United States
Presented by	AARP
First awarded	2003 (for films released during the 2002 film season)
Most recent winner	Till (2022)
Website	https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/movies-for-grownups/

Winners and Nominees

  indicates the winners.

2000s

Year	Film	Director	Ref.
2002 (2nd)	Road to Perdition‡	Sam Mendes ‡	^[3]
	Antwone Fisher	Denzel Washington
	The Hours	Stephen Daldry
	My Big Fat Greek Wedding	Joel Zwick
2003 (3rd)	Secondhand Lions‡	Tim McCanlies ‡	^[4]
	Bend It Like Beckham	Gurinder Chadha
	In America	Jim Sheridan
	Whale Rider	Niki Caro
2004 (4th)	Miracle‡	Gavin O'Connor ‡	^[5]
	Baadasssss!	Mario Van Peebles
	Monsieur Ibrahim	François Dupeyron
	The Five Obstructions	Lars von Trier
	Spanglish	James L. Brooks
2005 (5th)	Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story‡	John Gatins ‡	^[6]
	Because of Winn-Dixie	Wayne Wang
	In Her Shoes	Curtis Hanson
	Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont	Dan Ireland
	The Squid and the Whale	Noah Baumbach
2006 (6th)	Akeelah and the Bee‡	Doug Atchison ‡	^[7]
	Aurora Borealis	James C.E. Burke
	Brooklyn Lobster	Kevin Jordan
	Little Miss Sunshine	Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
	Quinceañera	Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland
2007 (7th)	The Namesake‡	Mira Nair ‡	^[8]
	The Great Debaters	Denzel Washington
	3:10 to Yuma	James Mangold
	The Savages	Tamara Jenkins
	Juno	Jason Reitman
2008 (8th)	The Visitor‡	Tom McCarthy‡	^[9]
	Rachel Getting Married	Jonathan Demme
	Gran Torino	Clint Eastwood
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	David Fincher
	Smart People	Noam Murro
2009 (9th)	Everybody's Fine‡	Kirk Jones ‡	^[10]
	The Blind Side	John Lee Hancock
	Taking Woodstock	Ang Lee
	Whip It	Drew Barrymore

2010s

Year	Film	Director	Ref.
2010 (10th)	Flipped‡	Rob Reiner ‡	^[11]
	The Karate Kid	Harald Zwart
	The Kids Are All Right	Lisa Cholodenko
	That Evening Sun	Scott Teems
	Touching Home	Logan and Noah Miller
2011 (11th)	Win Win‡	Tom McCarthy ‡	^[12]
	The First Grader	Justin Chadwick
	Hugo	Martin Scorsese
	The Music Never Stopped	Jim Kohlberg
2012 (12th)	Silver Linings Playbook‡	David O. Russell ‡	^[13]
	Moonrise Kingdom	Wes Anderson
	Parental Guidance	Andy Fickman
	Starlet	Sean Baker
	Trouble with the Curve	Robert Lorenz
2013 (13th)	Nebraska‡	Alexander Payne ‡	^[14]
	Bless Me, Ultima	Carl Franklin
	The Book Thief	Brian Percival
	Philomena	Stephen Frears
	The Way, Way Back	Nat Faxon and Jim Rash
2014 (14th)	St. Vincent‡	Theodore Melfi ‡	^[15]^[16]
	Chef	Jon Favreau
	The Judge	David Dobkin
	This Is Where I Leave You	Shawn Levy
2015 (15th)	Creed‡	Ryan Coogler ‡	^[17]^[18]
	Grandma	Paul Weitz
	The Intern	Nancy Meyers
	Straight Outta Compton	F. Gary Gray
	Woman in Gold	Simon Curtis
2016 (16th)	20th Century Women‡	Mike Mills ‡	^[19]
	A Monster Calls	J.A. Bayona
	Fences	Denzel Washington
	Lion	Garth Davis
	The Hollars	John Krasinski
2017 (17th)	The Florida Project‡	Sean Baker ‡	^[20]
	The Big Sick	Michael Showalter
	Lady Bird	Greta Gerwig
	Marjorie Prime	Michael Almereyda
	Wonder	Stephen Chbosky
2018 (18th)	Mary Poppins Returns‡	Rob Marshall‡	^[21]
	A Quiet Place	John Krasinski
	Beautiful Boy	Felix van Groeningen
	Ben Is Back	Peter Hedges
	Crazy Rich Asians	John M. Chu
2019 (19th)	The Farewell‡	Lulu Wang	^[22]
	A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood	Marielle Heller
	Little Women	Greta Gerwig
	Parasite	Bong Joon-ho
	The Etruscan Smile	Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis

2020s

Year	Film	Director	Ref.
2020/21 (20th)	Minari‡	Lee Isaac Chung ‡	^[23]
	The Father	Florian Zeller
	Hillbilly Elegy	Ron Howard
	The Life Ahead	Edoardo Ponti
	On the Rocks	Sofia Coppola
2021 (21st)	CODA‡	Sian Heder	^[24]^[25]
	Belfast	Kenneth Branagh
	C'Mon C'Mon	Mike Mills
	King Richard	Reinaldo Marcus Green
	The Tender Bar	George Clooney
2022 (22nd)	Till‡	Chinonye Chukwu	^[26]
	Armageddon Time	James Gray
	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Daniel Kwan & Daniel Schienart
	The Fabelmans	Steven Spielberg
	A Man Called Otto	Marc Forster

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