Movies for Grownups Awards Nominations: ‘One Battle After Another’ Leads With 8 Nods

The 2026 Movies for Grownups Awards nominations have been revealed, with Paul Thomas Anderson’s acclaimed One Battle After Another scoring a leading eight nominations, including for best picture.

The Warner Bros. film is also up for best actor (Leonardo DiCaprio), supporting actress (Regina Hall), supporting actor (Benicio Del Toro and Sean Penn), best director and screenwriter (Anderson) and best ensemble.

For the best picture, One Battle faces off against triple nominees A House of Dynamite and Sinnersdouble nominee Train Dreams and Hamnet.

Although not up for best picture, Nuremberg scored the second most nominations with four nods, including best supporting actor (Michael Shannon), screenwriter (James Vanderbilt), ensemble and period film.

In the TV categories, The White Lotus and The Studio lead with three nominations apiece, followed by two nods each for Adolescence, Hacks and The Pitt. All five shows are up for best TV series or limited series.

The awards recognize the best films and TV shows celebrating the stories and voices of people over the age of 50.

“These nominees prove that powerful storytelling transcends age. At AARP, we believe representation matters — not just for audiences, but for the industry itself,” AARP CEO Myechia Minter-Jordan said in a statement. “By honoring these actors and creators, we’re shining a light on the richness, depth and diversity of experience that deserves to be seen and celebrated.”

Alan Cumming is set to host the 2026 Movies for Grownups Awards on Jan. 10 at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills. The show will be broadcast by Great Performances on Sunday, Feb. 10 p.m. at 7 p.m. on PBS.

A complete list of this year’s nominees follows.

Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups Hamnet
A House of Dynamite
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Train Dreams

Best Actress Laura Dern (Is This Thing On?)
Jodie Foster (A Private Life)
Lucy Liu (Rosemead)
Julia Roberts (After the Hunt)
June Squibb (Eleanor the Great)

Best Actor George Clooney (Jay Kelly)
Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another)
Joel Edgerton (Train Dreams)
Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon)
Dwayne Johnson (The Smashing Machine)

Best Supporting Actress Regina Hall (One Battle After Another)
Amy Madigan (Weapons)
Helen Mirren (Goodbye June)
Gwyneth Paltrow (Marty Supreme)
Sigourney Weaver (Avatar: Fire and Ash)

Best Supporting Actor Benicio Del Toro (One Battle After Another)
Delroy Lindo (Sinners)
Sean Penn (One Battle After Another)
Michael Shannon (Nuremberg)
Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value)

Best Director Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)
Kathryn Bigelow (A House of Dynamite)
Scott Cooper (Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere)
Guillermo del Toro (Frankenstein)
Spike Lee (Highest 2 Lowest)

Best Screenwriter Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)
Noah Baumbach and Emily Mortimer (Jay Kelly)
Bradley Cooper, Will Arnett and Mark Chappell (Is This Thing On?)
Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale)
James Vanderbilt (Nuremberg)

Best Ensemble A House of Dynamite
Jay Kelly
Nuremberg
One Battle After Another
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Best Intergenerational Film Eleanor the Great
The Lost Bus
Rental Family
Rosemead
Sentimental Value

Best Period Film Dead Man’s Wire
Marty Supreme
Nuremberg
Sinners
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

Best Documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin
Cover-Up
My Mom Jayne
Riefenstahl
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost

Best Foreign-Language Film It Was Just an Accident
No Other Choice
Nouvelle Vague
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value

Best TV Series or Limited Series Adolescence
Hacks
The Pitt
The Studio
The White Lotus

Best Actor (TV) Walton Goggins (The White Lotus)
Stephen Graham (Adolescence)
Gary Oldman (Slow Horses)
Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us)
Noah Wyle (The Pitt)

Best Actress (TV) Kathy Bates (Matlock)
Kathryn Hahn (The Studio)
Catherine O’Hara (The Studio)
Parker Posey (The White Lotus)
Jean Smart (Hacks)