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Robert Love EDITOR IN CHIEF
The Joy of Movies for Grownups
Hollywood’s hottest turned out for our annual film and TV awards event
Top, left to right: Best TV actor Jeff Bridges; Annette Bening with best supporting actress Judith Ivey; Hong Chau with best actor Brendan Fraser. Middle, left to right: AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins; best director Baz Luhrmann with Austin Butler. Bottom, left to right: Frankie Faison and Jalyn Hall; event MC Alan Cumming; best TV actress Sheryl Lee Ralph with Lisa Ann Walter; Career Achievement Award winner Jamie Lee Curtis.
AFTER TWO YEARS as a virtual event, AARP The Magazine’s annual Movies for Grownups Awards ceremony was back in person this year, in all its starry splendor. At the historic Beverly Wilshire Hotel in late January, some of Hollywood’s hottest 50-plus actors and directors toasted the best films, TV shows and performances of 2022. The acceptance speeches often touched on the virtues of growing older. As best actor winner Brendan Fraser said—quoting Herman Melville—“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.” Couldn’t have said it better myself.
