AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Movie for Grownups Who Refuse to Grow Up

The AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Movie for Grownups Who Refuse to Grow Up was one of the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards presented annually by the AARP. The award honored the best film in a given year that, while targeted at people below the age of 50, could still be enjoyed by an older audience.^[1]

AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Movie for Grownups Who Refuse to Grow Up
Awarded for	Best film targeted at people below the age of 50
Country	United States
Presented by	AARP
First award	2002 (for films released during the 2001 film season)
Final award	2017
Most recent winner	Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
Website	https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/movies-for-grownups/

History

The award is one of the seven original trophies issued by AARP the Magazine, along with awards for Best Movie for Grownups, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Foreign Film, and Best Documentary.^[2] The award was discontinued after the 16th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards in 2017.^[3]

Winners and Nominees

  indicates the winners.

2000s

Year	Film	Director	Ref.
2001 (1st)	Shrek‡	Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson	[4]
2002 (2nd)	Spirited Away‡	Hayao Miyazaki	[5]
	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	Chris Columbus
	Ice Age	Chris Wedge
	Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie	Phil Vischer & Mike Nawrocki
2003 (3rd)	School of Rock‡	Richard Linklater	[6]
	Finding Nemo	Andrew Stanton
	Kill Bill: Volume 1	Quentin Tarantino
2004 (4th)	The Incredibles‡	Brad Bird	[7]
	Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy	Adam McKay
	Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story	Rawson Marshall Thurber
	Mean Girls	Mark Waters
	The Polar Express	Robert Zemeckis
2005 (5th)	King Kong‡	Peter Jackson	[8]
	Batman Begins	Christopher Nolan
	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	Andrew Adamson
	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit	Nick Park & Steve Box
	Wedding Crashers	David Dobkin
2006 (6th)	Lassie‡	Charles Sturridge	[9]
	Charlotte's Web	Gary Winick
	Nacho Libre	Jared Hess
	Nanny McPhee	Kirk Jones
	Night at the Museum	Shawn Levy
2007 (7th)	Enchanted‡	Kevin Lima	[10]
	Ratatouille	Brad Bird
	Mr. Bean's Holiday	Steve Bendelack
	Knocked Up	Judd Apatow
	The Simpsons Movie	David Silverman
2008 (8th)	Iron Man‡	Jon Favreau	[11]
	Wall-E	Andrew Stanton
	Kung Fu Panda	John Stevenson & Mark Osborne
	City of Ember	Gil Kenan
	Marley & Me	David Frankel
2009 (9th)	Star Trek‡	J. J. Abrams	[12]
	Coraline	Henry Selick
	The Princess and the Frog	Ron Clements & John Musker
	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Wes Anderson
	Up	Pete Docter

2010s

Year	Film	Director	Ref.
2010 (10th)	The Karate Kid‡	Harald Zwart	[13]
	Alice in Wonderland	Tim Burton
	Diary of a Wimpy Kid	Thor Freudenthal
	How to Train Your Dragon	Chris Sanders & Dean DeBlois
	Toy Story 3	Lee Unkrich
2011 (11th)	The Muppets‡	James Bobin	[14]
	Dolphin Tale	Charles Martin Smith
	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2	David Yates
	Hugo	Martin Scorsese
2012 (12th)	Moonrise Kingdom‡	Wes Anderson	[15]
	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Peter Jackson
	Mirror Mirror	Tarsem Singh
	The Three Stooges	Farrelly brothers
	Wreck-It Ralph	Rich Moore
2013 (13th)	Saving Mr. Banks‡	John Lee Hancock	[16]
	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs	Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
	Frozen	Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee
	The Lone Ranger	Gore Verbinski
2014 (14th)	The Lego Movie‡	Phil Lord and Christopher Miller	[17][18]
	Big Hero 6	Don Hall & Chris Williams
	Maleficent	Robert Stromberg
	Muppets Most Wanted	James Bobin
	Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb	Shawn Levy
2015 (15th)	Inside Out‡	Pete Docter	[19][20]
	Kingsman: The Secret Service	Matthew Vaughn
	Paddington	Paul King
	The Peanuts Movie	Steve Martino
	Shaun the Sheep Movie	Mark Burton & Richard Starzak
2016 (16th)	Kubo and the Two Strings‡	Travis Knight	[21]
	Moana	Ron Clements & John Musker
	Sing	Garth Jennings
	The Jungle Book	Jon Favreau
	Zootopia	Byron Howard & Rich Moore