Broadcast and streamed for the first time, AARP The Magazine’s Annual Movies for Grownups® Awards, now in its 17th year, celebrated 2017’s standout films with unique appeal to movie lovers with a grownup state of mind and recognizes the inspiring artists who make them. The awards ceremony made its on-air debut on Friday (2/23) as part of PBS’ Great Performances presentation.
“The Movies for Grownups Awards is an exciting new way for Great Performances to recognize outstanding achievement in the performing arts,” said executive producer David Horn. “Adding contemporary cinema is a natural fit for the series and we are happy to share this exceptional talent with viewers on all PBS platforms.”
The awards were taped live on February 5 at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills, Calif., with host Alan Cumming performing musical parodies of Get Out, Lady Bird, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, The Shape of Water and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Cumming spoke to the heart of Movies for Grownups, saying that “these awards are special, they recognize compelling movies and dynamic performances that appeal to a mature state of mind.”
Great Performances–Movies for Grownups Awards with AARP the Magazine features a moving tribute to Career Achievement honoree Helen Mirren, whose award is presented by her Winchester co-star Jason Clarke. The show also includes Mark Hamill and Kelly Marie Tran presenting director Rian Johnson with Best Picture/Best Movies for Grownups honors for Star Wars: The Last Jedi; Ben Mendelsohn presenting Gary Oldman with the Best Actor award for his role as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour, and Alfre Woodard presenting Best Actress honors to Annette Bening for her role as Gloria Grahame in Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool.
Here’s a full rundown of AARP Moves For Grown-Up Awards winners:
Career Achievement Award
Helen Mirren’s memorable performances have spanned decades in movies, on television and on the stage.
Best Actor
Gary Oldman won for his portrayal of Winston Churchill for Darkest Hour
Best Actress
Annette Bening as Gloria Grahame in Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Best Supporting Actress
Laurie Metcalf plays the protective mother of a teenage girl in Lady Bird
Best Supporting Actor
Richard Jenkins plays a kind-hearted illustrator who helps his neighbor, a mute janitor, rescue a creature with whom she’s fallen in love in The Shape of Water
Best Movie for Grownups
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Best Screenwriter
Aaron Sorkin for Molly’s Game
Best Intergenerational Film
The Florida Project
Best Documentary
I Am Not Your Negro
Best Director
Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water
Best Ensemble
The cast of Get Out
Best Grownup Love Story
The Greatest Showman
Best Time Capsule
Dunkirk
Readers’ Choice
Wonder Woman
Sean “Diddy” Combs seeks bail, citing changed circumstances and new evidence
Sean "Diddy" Combs filed a new request for bail on Friday, saying changed circumstances, along with new evidence, mean the hip-hop mogul should be allowed to prepare for a May trial from outside jail.
Lawyers for Combs filed the request in Manhattan federal court, where his previous requests for bail have been rejected by two judges since his September arrest on racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges.
He has pleaded not guilty to charges that he coerced and abused women for years with help from a network of associates and employees, while silencing victims through blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and physical beatings.
He has been awaiting a May 5 trial at a federal detention facility in Brooklyn.
In their new court filing, lawyers for Combs say they are proposing a "far more robust" bail package that would subject the entertainer to strict around-the-clock security monitoring and near-total restrictions on his ability to contact anyone but his lawyers. But the amount of money they attach to the package remains $50 million, as they proposed before.
They also cite new evidence that they say "makes clear that the government's case is thin." That evidence, the lawyers said, refutes the government's claim that a March 2016 video showing Combs physically assaulting his then-girlfriend occurred during a coerced "freak off," a sexually driven event described in the indictment against Combs.
They wrote that the encounter was instead "a minutes-long glimpse into a complex but decade-long consensual relationship" between Combs and his then-girlfriend.
The lawyers argued that the jail conditions Combs is experiencing at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn violate his constitutional... Read More