Who won the Ninth-Annual Movies for Grownups Awards?

Last year, I enjoyed reading about AARP’s selections for its Eighth-Annual Movies for Grownups Awards.

Since the Hollywood offerings for 2009 were so mediocre, I thought I’d write about the Ninth-Annual Movies for Grownups Awards. The winners are:

• Readers’ Choice – “The Blind Side”

• Best Movie for Grownups – “Invictus”

• Best Actress 50-Plus – Helen Mirren, “The Last Station”

• Best Actor 50-Plus – Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart”

• Best Supporting Actress 50-Plus – Kim Basinger, “The Burning Plain”

• Best Supporting Actor 50-Plus – Alec Baldwin, “It’s Complicated”

• Best Director 50-Plus – Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker”

• Best Comedy – “It’s Complicated”

• Best Grownup Love Story – Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci, “Julie and Julia”

• Best Documentary – Aron Gaudet, writer and director, “The Way We Get By”

• Breakthrough Accomplishment – LeVar Burton, director, “Reach for Me”

• Best Buddy Movie – Joe Wright, director, “The Soloist”

• Best Intergenerational Movie – Kirk Jones, director, “Everybody’s Fine”

• Best Movie for Grownups Who Refuse to Grow Up – J.J. Abrams, director, “Star Trek”

• Best Screenwriter 50-Plus – Nancy Meyers, “It’s Complicated”

• Best Foreign Film – Jordan, director, “Captain Abu Raed”

• Judges’ Award for Extraordinary Merit – John Lasseter, chief creative officer, Pixar and Disney Animation Studios, “Up”

Five of these films won Academy Awards: “The Blind Side,” Best Actress; “Crazy Heart,” Best Actor and Original Song; “Up,” Animated Feature Film and Original Score; “Star Trek,” Makeup; and “The Hurt Locker,” Best Movie, Directing, Original Screenplay, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, and Film Editing.

One movie I really enjoyed was the documentary “Food Inc.” My next post will be “Food Inc., the Movie, Offers Shocking Information on the American Food System.”