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We’re in the midst of a very clogged awards season at the moment, as the California wildfires have forced several big statue ceremonies to suffer major delays, moving around the schedule and elbowing for what we can only assume is a very limited supply of unsullied red carpets. Hence, presumably, why Friday night’s Critics Choice Awards have been forced to share a weekend with this Saturday’s AARP Movies For Grownups Awards, the official award ceremony of the group, who, we feel moved to note, are probably very nice, and who we are not making fun of. The two inadvertently paired awards shows do make for a study in contrasts and comparisons, though, especially when you look at their picks for Best Picture and/or the AARP’s Best Movie For Grownups: The Critics might have liked Anora, but America’s retirees goddamn love Bob Dylan.
Yep: James Mangold’s Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown took home the top prize at the competition, also snagging the “Best Time Capsule” award for best recreating the past. (A huge blow for competing nominee September 5, which was so committed to its love of history that it put it right there in the movie’s name.) The film did not win in the acting categories, however; in fact, Timothée Chalamet (detestably 29) didn’t even rate a nomination for his performance as Dylan. Instead, Best Actor went to Critics Choice Awards winner Adrien Brody for The Brutalist. Similarly, Demi Moore scored double-wins this weekend, taking home Best Actress at both shows for The Substance. (Peter Sarsgaard and Joan Chen won in the AARP Supporting categories, meanwhile, for September 5 and Didi.) As with the CCAs, the biggest takeaway was the fact that no one movie walked away with the whole show: Emilia Pérez added another trophy to its shelf with a directing win for Jacques Audiard, Sing Sing won for Best Ensemble, Wicked got a screenplay award, and—we are not making fun of the AARP—the single least surprising award of the evening was handed out for “Best Intergenerational Movie,” for, obviously, Thelma.
Oh, and the AARP also very briefly dabbled in TV: Take it as read that they still like Jodie Foster (for True Detective: Night Country), Jon Hamm (Fargo), and, like every other TV-minded award-granting body on the planet, Shōgun, which won Best TV Series Or Limited Series.
[via THR]
[Note: A previous version of this story referred to the AARP by its former name, the American Association Of Retired Persons.]
