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    “Great Performances”: AARP Movies For Grown-Up Awards Makes On-Air Debut

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    Kristin Scott Thomas (l) and Gary Oldman in a scene from "Darkest Hour." Oldman won the Best Actor honor from the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards (photo by Jack English/courtesy of Focus Features)
    BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. --

    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

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    Christmas TV movies are in their Taylor Swift era, with 2 Swift-inspired films airing this season

    Friday, November 22, 2024
    This image released by Hallmark Media shows Hunter King, left, and Tyler Hynes in a scene from "Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story. (Joshua Haines/Hallmark Media via AP)

    Two new Christmas TV movies have a Taylor Swift connection that her fans would have no problem decoding.

    "Christmas in the Spotlight" debuts Saturday on Lifetime. It stars Jessica Lord as the world's biggest pop star and Laith Wallschleger as a pro football player, who meet and fall in love — not unlike Swift and her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.

    "It's clearly inspired by Taylor and Travis, but I don't know them and I don't know what is going on behind the scenes. I only know what's been put out there," said Eirene Tran Donohue, a longtime, devoted fan who jumped at the opportunity to write a script even loosely based on her favorite musician.

    She was inspired by the couple's support of each other's accomplishments, particularly Kelce's ease with dating the star despite the glare of the spotlight, adding, "I love the way that he celebrates her."

    Tran Donohue wants fellow Swift fans to know she wrote the script with them in mind.

    "There are so many Easter eggs," she said of little details added that a Swift fan would pick up on. "I put in as many as I could."

    Then, on Nov. 30, Hallmark will air "Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story." Instead of a nod to Swift, it's an ode to family traditions and bonding, like rooting for a sports team. Hallmark's headquarters is also in Kansas City, so it makes sense why the company chose the Chiefs to be highlighted.

    In this story, written by Julie Sherman Wolfe, sparks fly when a new employee for the Chiefs organization (Tyler Hynes) meets a woman — played by Hunter King — whose family's dedication to the team goes back generations.

    Sherman Wolfe, a San Francisco 49ers fan, said she got the call a week after Super Bowl LVIII, when the Chiefs... Read More

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