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- Can't keep my hands to myself -There are times that demand that even old men should become threats. -...up on the shelf - In case my little baby girl is in need Am I coming out of left field? Ooh, ooh, I'm a rebel just for kicks now -Do you have the papers? - I been feelin' it since 1966 now -Not yet. - Might be over now, but I feel it still -This creature is intelligent, capable of language... of understanding emotions. - Ooh, ooh, I'm a rebel just for kicks now Let me kick it like it's 1986 now -Hey! - Might be over now, but I feel it still -This is not going to go...

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...the way you think. -I want you to be the very best version of yourself that you can be. -To the queen. -To the queen! -To the queen! -To me! - Ooh, ooh, I'm a rebel just for kicks now -I'm done talking. Let's play. -Ha ha ha ha! - I been kickin' it since 1966 now Might've had your fill... -Showtime. -...but I feel it still

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-Ladies and gentlemen, your host for the 17th Annual Movies for Grownups Awards with AARP The Magazine, Alan Cumming.

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-Good evening... friends, movie lovers... fans of adult entertainment.

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Oh. Oh, no, wait. That -- That just came out wrong. No, I didn't mean it. I-I mean -- I mean sort of fans of, um, movies for, um, mature audiences. Um... ugh, you know what I mean. Anyway, we're gonna have a really great time tonight celebrating the Movies for Grownups with AARP The Magazine. And since we're all grownups here, I'd like to dedicate this one to you. Yes, to you.

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Hey, old friends Isn't it great, old friends? Movies that rate, us friends Are they or are they unique? Reels roll by Much of them skew much younger You and I Search for a good one each week Most films fade Or they don't make the grade New ones are quickly made And in a pinch, sure, they'll do But these screen hits Are to been seen, with glitz Here's to them Who's like 'em? Damn few Gosh, look who's here tonight -- Helen Mirren and Taylor Hackford!

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Or, as this crowd likes to call them, "young love"!

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We've got Gary Oldman over here. But, of course, tonight, with these awards, he's being renamed Gary "Old Man." Thank you very much.

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I'll be here all night. Don't forget to tip your waitress and try the veal.

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Oh, what? What -- is that Saoirse Ronan over there? How are you, Saoirse? Hey, hang on. How old are you? 23? Security! Security!

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A young person is in the building. Saoirse, could you act old? You could do anything, la-- There you go.

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Films debut Some of them don't break through Maybe there's one or two If you find one, that'll do But these top flicks They're made to please, our picks Here's to them Who's like 'em Damn fe-e-e-e-w

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Thank you. Oh, please, save it, save it. If you're just tuning in, this is not a rerun of "Masterpiece Mystery!" I'd just like to put your minds at rest. No one did it in the library with a candlestick.

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But the night is young.

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Um, apparently -- I don't like to blow my own trumpet, but I did such a great job hosting "Masterpiece Mystery!" for the past decade, PBS is giving me the chance to do my thing with this full 36-piece orchestra, ladies and gentleman...

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...33 pieces of which are stuck in Los Angeles traffic. Showbiz!

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It's great to have you fine folks here with us for the 17th Movies for Grownups Awards." Now, I know what you're all saying at home. You're saying, "What happened to the first 16 Movies for Grownups Awards? Did I miss them? Do I need to change my medication?"

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"Should I not have accepted that drink from a stranger?"

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No, none of those things. You did not miss them, because this is the first time they have been televised, you see? They've never been televised before.

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So, thanks to PBS' "Great Performances" series for asking me to be the first ever host of this first ever telecast of these awards. Thank you.

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And you know what they say. You know what they say. You never forget your first.

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And I promise you an unforgettable evening.

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This is the official halfway point of awards season, you'll be delighted to know -- just six more months to go.

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But these awards are special. They recognize compelling movies and dynamic performances that appeal to a mature state of mind. So, who better to host them than a sexually ambiguous Scottish man-child best known for running around a Broadway stage, wearing little more than a pimped-up jockstrap and a bow tie?

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Thank you.

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But, you know, one man's maturity is another woman's...

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Anyway, so, no matter who we are or how old we are, we all love a good story, and the films tonight were chosen from some of the top stories of the past year, like "Lady Bird"...

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..."Get Out"...

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..."Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri."

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By the way, "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," must be where PBS is advertising this show because I've been up and down Wilshire Boulevard, and I've yet to see my smiling face.

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Though I did make $75 in cash.

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But that's another story. So, tonight's nominees range from fairy-tale love to spectacular adventure, and the powerhouse artists who created them are each at the top of their game. So, now, before we begin, there's a message I've been asked to share with you to sum up the mood of this evening. Table 24 needs more wine and a bucket.

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Well, table 24...

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Make that two buckets.

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So, let's get started, shall we? The first category is Best Supporting Actress, and here are the nominees. Holly Hunter, "The Big Sick." -I feel good about the surgery. -Yeah. Me too. These doctors know what they're doing. -No, they don't. They're just wingin' it like e'body else. -Allison Janney, "I, Tonya." -This here is my daughter, Tonya. -Mrs. Harding, I told you on the phone -- -I know what you told me, only you never seen her skate. -I don't train beginners. -All she does is talk about skating all day and night -- can't shut her up about it. So it's easier for me to put her on ice, if you know what I mean. -Melissa Leo, "Novitiate."

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00 at night, signifying the beginning of Grand Silence, that means you... don't... talk. Any questions? Put your hand down, Sister. Postulants don't have questions. And you are free to go home. -Lesley Manville, "Phantom Thread." -No, don't turn it on me. I don't want

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your cloud on my head. -Oh, shut up, Cyril. -And you can shut right up. Don't pick a fight with me. You certainly won't come alive. I'll go right through you, and it'll be you who ends up on the floor. Understood?

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-Laurie Metcalf, "Lady Bird." -Is it too pink? - Maybe now...

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-Why can't you say I look nice? -I thought you didn't even care what I think. -I still want you to think I look good. -Okay, I'm sorry. I was telling you the truth. You want me to lie?

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-And now, to present the award, please welcome Oscar-nominated writer and director Greta Gerwig and the only three-time Oscar nominee whose name rhymes with "inertia," the incredible Saoirse Ronan!

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-Hello. -Um, so, the winner of the Movies for Grownups Award for Best Supporting Actress is... Laurie Metcalf.

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The characters that Greta Gerwig wrote for us in "Lady Bird" are so precise that there isn't a moment that doesn't feel completely real. -Laurie is brilliant as a mother trying to keep her family afloat financially, doing everything within her power to help her daughter succeed. Lady Bird often clashes with her mother, but Laurie's deeply empathetic performance is grounded in the infinite love she has for her daughter. -These two equally strong women are at the time in life when childhood is coming to an end, which raises the emotional stakes of every interaction. While their dynamic onscreen is complicated, I feel a great sense of calm when I am around Laurie. She is an amazing mom in real life with two sons and two lovely daughters, so she was fully prepared to parent my character. -Laurie is an actor's actor. She lives and breathes the craft of acting. It's all about the art, and it's all about the work. There was never a day or a take that she didn't completely inspire me and blow me away. -Laurie Metcalf is so giving and brilliant and open and so deserving of this honor. Here's just one of the brilliant moments she brought to "Lady Bird." -I wish I could live through something. -Aren't you? -Nope. The only exciting thing about 2002 is that it's a palindrome. -Okay, fine. Well, yours is the worst life of all, so you win. -Oh, so now you're mad because I wanted to listen to music? -No, it's just you're being ridiculous because you have a great life. -I'm sorry I'm not perfect. -No one's asking you to be perfect -- just considerate would do. -I don't even want to go to school in this state, anyway. I hate California. I want to go to the East Coast. -Your dad and I will barely be able to afford in-state tuition. -There are loans, scholarships. -Your brother, your very smart brother, he can't even find a job. -He and Shelly work. They have jobs. -They bag at the grocery store. That is not a career. And they went to Berkeley. -

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-Your father's company is laying off people right and left. Did you even know that? No, of course you don't, because you don't think about anybody but yourself. And Immaculate Heart is already a luxury. -"Immaculate Fart." You wanted that, not me. -Miguel saw someone knifed in front of him at Sac High. Is that what you want? So you -- s-- you're telling me that you want to see somebody knifed right in front of you? -He barely saw that. -Right in front of... -I want to go where culture is, like New York... -How in the world did I raise such a snob? -...or at least Connecticut or New Hampshire, where writers live in the woods. -You couldn't get into those schools, anyway. -Mom. -You can't even pass your driver's test. -Because you wouldn't let me practice enough! -The way that you work -- or the -- or the way that you don't work, you're not even worth state tuition, Christine. -My name is Lady Bird. -Uh, well, actually, it's not, and it's ridiculous because your name is Christine. -Call me "Lady Bird," like you said you would. -Just -- You should just go to city college, you know, with your work ethic. Just go to city college and then to jail and then back to city college, and then maybe you'd learn to pull yourself up and not expect everybody to make every --

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It gives us the greatest pleasure to present the Movies for Grownups Award for Best Supporting Actress to our friend Laurie Metcalf. -Oh!

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-I -- Uh, it's an honor to be here. Um, I had the amazing, uh, good fortune to work with these two incredible women, uh, in -- behind "Lady Bird" -- Greta Gerwig, who not only wrote but directed this beautiful, beautiful movie, and Saoirse Ronan, who is literally the best scene partner than any actor could wish for. "Lady Bird," to me, is a beautiful reminder that we can't let what we want for one another get in the way of our love for one another. And it's hard to let Lady Birds go. I've had to do it myself a number of times. We cross our fingers and hope that the world will be as gentle with them as it possibly can be, and that's all any mother has wished for her daughter -- a better life and a better world to live it in. I-I would like to thank A24, Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Evelyn O'Neill, everyone who poured their heart and souls into the making of "Lady Bird," and especially AARP for this beautiful recognition. Thank you very much.

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- Got a whale of a tale to tell you now A whale of a tale for you 'Bout a fishy man and the girl he loved On a Cold War night with the moon above A whale of a tale, and it's all true I swear by my tattoo!

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Thank you very much. Now, actually, maybe it's not true. Um, and, also, I'm not actually going to show you my tattoo, um, this early in the evening, and certainly not without a couple of cocktails first, but it is a fantastical tale of love between an isolated girl and an amphibian man. Here's a look at our first nominee for Best Movie for Grownups, "The Shape of Water."

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-Elisa, hurry, hurry.

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-Oh! -She deaf? -Mute, sir. She can hear you. -You clean that lab. You get out. -This may very well be the most sensitive asset ever to be housed in this facility. -You may think that thing looks human. Stands on two legs, right? But we're created in the Lord's image. You don't think that's what the Lord looks like, do you? -This creature is intelligent, capable of language, of understanding emotions.

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-"When he looks at me, he does not know how I am incomplete. He sees me as I am." Get him out? What are you talking about?

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No. -We need to take it apart, learn how it works. -

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-I don't want an intricate, beautiful thing destroyed. -We can do nothing. I'm sorry. -Don't do this, Elisa. -What did she say?! -Don't do this. -Oh, God, it's not even human.

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-You know, um, that clip actually reminds me -- I left a tap running in my hotel room...

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...and -- and a naked fish-man in my tub.

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Well, you know, he's not really a fish-man, but he can breathe underwater. Um, rim shot, please!

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Thank you very much.

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This next award recognizes stories that embrace the most powerful force in the universe. To present Best Grownup Love Story, a talented director who made his big-screen debut this year with "The Greatest Showman" -- please welcome Michael Gracey.

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-I couldn't be more excited that the award for Best Grownup Love Story is being presented to "The Greatest Showman." Our film depicts many love stories. In one sense, it's the romantic tale of P.T. Barnum and the sense of wonder and imagination, that he gave birth to the rise of show business. There's also the personal romance between Barnum and his wife, Charity, and Phillip Carlyle and the trapeze artist, Anne Wheeler. But this award celebrates the love story at the heart of the film, which is Barnum's devotion to the oddities. These were the, uh, outcasts who existed in the shadows, and he pulled them into the spotlight. He didn't just take these people who were invisible to society and turn them into stars. He made them feel loved for the first time in their lives. And with that, he created a family of circus performers. In our film, the stirring ballad "This Is Me" is sung by the bearded lady, Lettie Lutz, who is played by the incredible Keala Settle. The song has become an anthem for all of those who have found strength in what makes us different. So here is that moment from "The Greatest Showman." - Oh, oh, oh, oh - And I know that I deserve your love - Oh, oh, oh, oh - There's nothin' I'm not worthy of - Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh - When the sharpest words wanna cut me down I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown 'em out This is brave, this is proof This is who I'm meant to be This is me - Look out, 'cause here I come - Look out, 'cause here I come And I'm marching on to the beat I drum - Marching on, marching on - To the beat I drum I'm not scared to be seen -

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- I make no apologies This is me Whenever the words wanna cut me down I send a flood to drown them out - Oh, oh, oh, oh - Stand my ground - Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh This is me

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-It's my pleasure to present the award for Best Grownup Love Story to "The Greatest Showman." And on behalf of our cast and, uh, everyone connected with the film, the amazing Keala Settle will accept the award.

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- Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh -

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Oh. Thank you to everyone here for this prestigious honor. Um, what is a grownup love story? It's the same love story you had when you were a little kid. There's no time on it. There's no sequence of events that's attached to it. You're always in love. It was an honor to be a part of this film and be the vehicle for the message that it gives out on a daily basis. Humans need connection. I think

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Nat King Cole sang it best, you know? The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is just to love And be loved in return Thank you.

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-Congratulations, Keala. A Broadway star with a beard.

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That would never happen.

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And now, to present the award for Best Documentary, please welcome actress, model, and host Shari Belafonte.

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-Thank you. I am very pleased to announce the winner of the Movie for Grownups Award for Best Documentary. It's "I Am Not Your Negro." With an --

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With an unfinished book by novelist and social critic James Baldwin as a basis, filmmaker Raoul Peck has created this fascinating political and poetic examination of race in America. The author's original notes on the lives and assassinations of his friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. takes us on a journey into black History -- into American history. The struggles these men and others faced were the struggles of ordinary people. The March on Washington, during which Dr. King delivered his unforgettable "I Have a Dream" speech, was organized in part by my father, Harry Belafonte.

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Like so many people, Harry faced two defining moments -- he had been born into the Great Depression, and he had fought for America against the Nazis during the Second World War. And yet, less than two decades later, there was a war at home, as people of color were denied their basic rights as citizens. Through intellect and emotion, this eye-opening film connects those turbulent events of the 1960s to the current Black Lives Matter movement. Here is some of the timely perspective provided by "I Am Not Your Negro." -If any white man in the world says, "Give me liberty or give me death," the entire white world applauds. When a black man says exactly the same thing, he is judged a criminal and treated like one and everything possible is done to make an example of this bad nigger so there won't be any more like him. - I been lonely... -The story of the Negro in America is the story of America. It is not a pretty story.

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-Most of the white Americans I've ever encountered truly have nothing whatever against Negroes. That's really not the question -- really a kind of apathy and ignorance. You don't know what's happening on the other side of the wall because you don't want to know. -I do say that the bulk of the interpretation of whether this thing is going to end successfully and joyously or is going to end disastrously lays very heavily with a great middle stream in this country of people who have refused to commit themselves or even have the slightest knowledge that these things have been going on. -In America, I was free only in battle, never free to rest.

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-We need to take action...

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...any kind of action by any means necessary. -They needed us to pick the cotton, and now they don't need us anymore. Now that they don't need us, they're gonna kill us all off.

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-There are days when you wonder what your role is in this country and what your future is in it.

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-I am so honored to present the Movies for Grownups Award for Best Documentary to the producer of "I Am Not Your Negro," Hbert Peck.

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-I can't sing, um, so...

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...but I have a note. But thank you very much. Um, "Raoul Peck, Rmi Grellety, and I are honored to receive the AARP Movie for Grownups Award for Best Documentary. We want to thank our team and partners in the U.S., France, Belgium, and Switzerland. We are grateful to Nina Shaw, ITVS, ICM for their amazing work and for Samuel Jackson's great talent. Most of all, we want to thank the Baldwin Estate, especially Gloria Karefa-Smart, our guardian angel throughout all these years. Of course, my final thanks will be to James Baldwin, who gave us these strong words to help us see through the dark clouds ahead of us." Thank you.

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-And now the award for Best Supporting Actor. Here are the nominees. Willem Dafoe, "The Florida Project." -I'm gonna talk to Ashley, by the way. When your friend puts you in charge of her kid, that kid becomes your responsibility. You ain't takin' responsibility. And you got that one, too. She's from Futureland, right? -Oh, whatevs. You got to relax, my man. -You gonna redo my expense reports with your "whatevs"? -Laurence Fishburne, "Last Flag Flying." -There are times that demand that even old men should become threats! -A right. It's like during the pinko scare, everybody -- -I thought I was talkin'. -Yeah. You were. -I told my wife I am not coming home, not until we're done here. -Woody Harrelson, "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri." -I'd do anything to catch the guy who did it, Mrs. Hayes, but when the DNA don't match no one who's ever been arrested and when the DNA don't match any other crime nationwide and when there wasn't a single eyewitness from the time she left your house to the time we found her, well... right now, there ain't too much more we can do. -Richard Jenkins, "The Shape of Water." -"All that I am, all that I've ever been, brought me here to him." See, you're saying "him." It's a him now. It's a... Uh, you just hit me! Elisa, let go of me. I'm looking. I'm looking. You've never h-- Why, you hit me. -Christopher Plummer, "All the Money in the World." -With all due respect, nobody has ever been richer than you are at this moment. -I have no money to spare. -What would it take? I mean, what would it take for you to feel secure? -More.

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-And now, to present the award, an Emmy-winning and Tony-winning actress who has a long history with "Great Performances." She starred in "The Seagull" and "Eccentricities of a Nightingale," among other phenomenal productions. Please welcome Blythe Danner!

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-Oh, hello. Before I introduce the most important reason I'm here, I just want to thank our -- Uh, it's so wonderful to grow old because I'm getting many more parts than I ever have.

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Enough of the narcissistic moment, but I do want to quickly say I tip my hat to -- to Helen Mirren 'cause I saw her at the Barbican years ago, and I looked at my program, and I said, "Who is this person?" and was flabbergasted by her. Thank you for your grace and talent and power.

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So, but I'm really here to announce the Movies for Grownups Award for Best Supporting Actor goes to Richard Jenkins for his performance...

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...in "Shape of Water."

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Well, I do have to say this because, as an artist, this is something I can attest to and as a human being. Richard is an inspiration to any generation. We played husband and wife in the film "Waiting for Forever," and it seems like I have been waiting that long to present him with an award recognizing his immense talent. He has always been one of our industry's most beloved character actors, honing his craft in a hundred stage productions -- yes, theater, yay -- and more than 70 motion pictures. Now, 10 years ago, he seemingly came from nowhere, when, at age 60, he received an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor for "The Visitor."

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An over-- So, an overnight success story that was some

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four decades in the making. Last month, he received his second Oscar nomination for the breathtaking performance we recognize tonight. He plays Giles, an unemployed illustrator who is looking for things in the wrong places, in this remarkable film about lonely people trying to make connections. Here's a brief look at Richard Jenkins in "The Shape of Water."

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- Pretty baby -Oh, that's better. That's better. - And I'd like to be your sister... -Oh, look at Betty. Ohh, God, to be young and beautiful... If I could go back to when I was 18, I didn't know anything about anything, I'd give myself a bit of advice. - We'll cuddle all the time -I would say, "Take better care of your teeth and...a lot more." -

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-Oh, no, no. That's very good advice. - Pretty baby of mine - Pretty baby of mine -

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-Come. Come. It is my great pleasure to present the award, Best Supporting Actor, to Richard Jenkins. -Oh.

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-Oh.

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How about that? Thank you.

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Thank you. Is it because I'm the oldest one here? Is it...

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Uh...Ohh. Oh, my gosh. Uh, th--thank you, Blythe. That was -- That was terrific. Um, I want to thank Sam Rockwell for being too young to win this thing, so...

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I'm not... Yeah, come on. Sam, slow down, man. Slow down.

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Um, listen. Uh, my whole life, I wanted to be an actor in the movies. Uh, when I was a kid in DeKalb, Illinois, I'd go to the movies and I'd say, "How do you do that?" And, um, not only do they let me do it, but they give me one of these and put me in a room with this group of incredible talent -- Laurie. I'm a lucky man. Uh, okay, I want to thank Fox Searchlight, "The Shape of Water," our cast -- incredible cast in "Shape of Water" -- Doug Jones, who's here, out of rubber.

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Amazing. Um... the two brilliant Michaels, Stuhlbarg and Shannon. And the amazing Octavia Spencer. And --

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Yeah. And the -- the -- the one and only, singular, fabulous Sally Hawkins.

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Uh, yeah, there you... Now... You are all my friends now, and there isn't anything you can do about it.

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Now, Guillermo del Toro. Guillermo is -- um, he understands what film can do that no other medium can, and he does it. He reveres film history, he uses it, but at the same time, he's always looking to the future, and he's -- he's always trying to find a new way to make an emotional connection with the audience. Because Guillermo knows that, uh, it isn't finished until somebody sees it. So thank you for letting me, uh, be a part of this, Guillermo. Uh, you're a genius, man, and you're an -- you're really hysterical, too.

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And, uh, speaking of geniuses, my wife, Sharon, um, I have to thank her -- We met when we were 19.

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And -- I know. That always gets "aww." Yeah, aww. And you're 86 now. That's...

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But, um...

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Sharon -- I can't remember what she looks like, but I, um...

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Well, I-I'm just -- I'm glad I met her. That's... Um, and to one person that I don't thank enough, and that's my agent, Rhonda Price, who, uh...

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You ch-- You -- You changed my career. I love you, and, um, I'm a lucky man. Thank you very much. Thank you.

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- Daniel plays a man Who thought that things were normal Till he meets his girlfriend's folks Get out, get out Get out because you don't belong I was screaming at the movie screen for Daniel Kaluuya to save himself from that horrible nightmare. If you are one of the 10 people left who hasn't seen this film, it's about an interracial couple who spend the weekend with the woman's parents. It's an insightful and darkly comic horror-genre spin on race relations, and it's our second nominee for Best Movie For Grownups, "Get Out."

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-Do they know I'm black? -Should they? -You might want to, you know... -"Mom and Dad, my black boyfriend will be coming up this weekend. I just don't want you to be shocked that he's a black man."

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-I ain't never seen you like this before, brah, meeting families and takin' road trips. Don't come back all bougie, man. Come back, you got your damn pants up to your damn stomach.

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-So, you guys coming up from the city? -Yeah, we're just heading up for the weekend. -Can I see your license, please? -He wasn't driving. -I didn't ask who was driving. I asked to see his I.D. -Call me "Dean" and hug me, my man! So, how long has this been going on, this -- this "thang"?

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We hired Georgina and Walter to help care for my parents. When they died, I couldn't bear to let 'em go. -So, look, I go do my research. Apparently, a whole bunch of brothers been missin' in this suburb. -But it's cool. -Brah, how you not scared of this, man? -Good to see another brother 'round here. -Chris was just telling me how he felt much more comfortable with my being here.

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-Rose, we got to go. -Is everything okay? -Rose, the keys. Just get the keys. -I don't know where they are. -Rose.

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-And now, to present the award for Best Intergenerational Movie, please welcome one of the finest actors of his or, indeed, any generation -- three-time Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe!

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-Thank you. I'm pleased to present the Movies for Grownups Award for the Best Intergenerational Movie to "The Florida Project."

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I'm proud that people respond to the story of a 6-year-old girl, her mother, and her friends who exist week to week in a low-budget motel on the outskirts of Disney World. Audiences relate to the sweet humanity of people who are struggling to negotiate something good out of a tenuous situation. This award recognizes the relationships that exist between generations, so I'm equally proud of our intergenerational cast. The kids express a joyful chaos that is juxtaposed with the difficult situations of their parents and the other grownups at the motel. I play Bobby, the motel manager...

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Thanks....who does what he can to look after all of them. These amazing actors have brought to the screen complex and nuanced interactions within a community that many don't know exists. Here's a look at "The Florida Project."

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-Thanks for calling The Magic Castle. It's Amber. -Mmm. -Yeah. We sure do. $38 a night. -Mmm.

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Okay, I warned ya -- one drip, and you're out. -Oh, come on! -Out now. -It's gonna melt outside! -It's melting inside, too. -But, Bobby... -Out. -

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-Thank you very much. -You're not welcome! The man who lives in here gets arrested a lot. These are the rooms we're not supposed to go in. -Ooh! -But let's go anyways! Ooh!

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Could you give us some change, please? The doctors said we have asthma, and we got to eat ice cream right away. -Yeah. -Here you go. -Whoo! -New job? -Yeah. -If you're workin', who's lookin' after Moonee? -You're not my father! -And I don't want to be your father. -You can't treat me like this.

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-You don't think everybody knows what's up, Halley? Everybody. -She's about to cry. -

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-I can always tell when adults are about to cry. Why is my mom yelling? -They're just talkin'. They got to figure something out.

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Moo! See? I took you on a safari. -Wow! -Oh! -Whoa! -Whoo!

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-It's my pleasure to present the Movies for Grownups Award for Best Intergenerational Movie to the director, co-writer, and editor of "The Florida Project," Sean Baker, and two of my young costars, Valeria Cotto and Christopher Rivera.

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-Hi, everybody. Thank you so much. Christopher Rivera and Valeria Cotto.

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They are much better at memorizing things than I am, so I'm gonna be reading from this. Um, okay. Um, thank you, Willem. Thank you so much. "And thank you, AARP, for recognizing our movie with this award." Um, "My amazing multigenerational cast helped depict a problem that is faced by people of all ages across this nation -- the problem of the hidden homeless." Um, "These are families who struggle to pay their rent week-to-week, knowing that they are literally one night away from possibly being on the street. My co-screenwriter, Chris Bergoch, and I decided to set our story in the area along Florida's Route 192, which was particularly hit hard by the recession of '08. Like the children in our film, families and individuals take refuge in the budget motels in the shadow of the happiest place on Earth. If homelessness can happen there, it can happen anywhere. So, thank you to the people of Kissimmee -- Kissimmee, Florida -- the real motel owners and managers, the agencies that provide social services to those in need, and the temporary residents who eke out their day-to-day existence. They saw what we wanted to do with this film, and they opened their lives to us." Um, "If this story can shine a light and inspire people to make a change in their local communities, then I think we've done our job." So I want to thank A24, our wonderful distributor, and, of course, AARP for this wonderful honor. And, uh, you guys, you want to say something? All right, let me -- let me lift you up here.

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All right. Christopher? -Thank you. Thank you, AARP Awards.

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We are so proud to be here. -All right. Cool. And now Valeria.

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Okay. -Thank you all for all your great support. And where can I sign in for this?

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Can some-- Can somebody tell me? -You can use my card.

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-Well, now I get to announce the award for Best Ensemble. It goes to the cast of a chilling and hilarious film that is equal parts social commentary and provocative thriller. It transcends genres and has become a touchstone for conversation about race in America -- conversations we obviously very much need. If there weren't already enough reasons to be afraid of meeting your mate's parents, the performances of this ensemble made it even more terrifying. Daniel Kaluuya... Allison Williams... Catherine Keener... Bradley Whitford... Lakeith Stanfield... Marcus Henderson... Betty Gabriel... Stephen Root... LilRel Howery.

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Ladies and gentlemen, it's a pleasure to present the Best Ensemble Award to "Get Out." Accepting on behalf of the cast are Betty Gabriel and Marcus Henderson.

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- Brother Sikiliza kwa wahenga Brother Sikiliza, sikiliza, sikiliza kwa wahenga -Oh, man. Wow, man, I'm looking around -- I was like, "Man, is this, like, the AARP Awards, or is this gonna be like an audition for 'Get Out 2'?" Like...

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Hey, uh, we wanted to thank you all, uh, on behalf of Jordan Peele and the rest of the cast for, uh, having us here, uh, tonight 'cause this is a great honor. Thank you so much. And... -Uh, yeah, thank you, uh, to our ensemble, who was already listed. And I just want to say that we're really amazing actors because, uh...

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...we walked onto a set with the likes of them, um... -Yeah. -...Catherine Keener, Daniel Kaluuya -- Well, I'm not gonna say their names again, but, you know? -Yeah. We did. We -- We did it, yeah. -It was very intimidating but... -Yeah. We did it, though. -We did our thing. -Thank you all so much. We appreciate it.

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"Lady Bird" She makes her parents call her "Lady Bird" The things she says to Mom are not demurred Salty words Their whole world's upended And yet this story's splendid "Lady Bird" This is the story of two generations of women -- a fierce and deeply loving mother and her aspirational teenage daughter. It's about the relationships that shape us, the dreams that define us, and the inescapable pull of a place called home. Our third nominee for Best Movie For Grownups is "Lady Bird."

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-"Lady Bird"? Is that your given name? -Yeah. -Why is it in quotes? -I gave it to myself. It's given to me by me. -Lady Bird always says that she lives on the wrong side of the tracks, but I always thought that that was like a metaphor. But there are actual train tracks. -What you do is very baller. It's very anarchist. -Put the magazine back!

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-She has a big heart, your mom. -She's warm, but she's also kind of scary. -You can't be scary and warm. -I think you can. Your mom is. -We're afraid that we will never escape our past. -Whatever we give you, it's never enough. It's never enough. -It is enough! -We're afraid of what the future will bring.

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We're afraid we won't be loved... -You can't do anything unless you're the center of attention!

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-...we won't be liked... -Yeah, well, you know your mom's tits? They're totally fake! -She made one bad decision at 19! -Two bad decisions! -...and we won't succeed. -I want you to be the very best version of yourself that you can be. -What if this is the best version?

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-And now, to present the award for Best Screenwriter, please welcome the former Olympic-class skier whose true story is the subject of the film "Molly's Game" -- author and entrepreneur Molly Bloom!

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-The Movies for Grownups Award for Best Screenwriter goes to the brilliant writer and director of "Molly's Game," Aaron Sorkin.

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I strongly believe, as human beings, we should write our own story -- unless you can convince Aaron to write it, and then just do that.

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When I met Aaron, things were pretty bleak. I was broke, I had pled guilty to a felony, my reputation was in tatters, and the worst part was it was all my fault. So I mustered my last few drops of confidence, flew to L.A., and I told him my story. I guess it worked because he said to me, "Boy, I've never met someone so down on their luck, yet so full of themselves."

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To my utter disbelief, he told me he was in, and not only was he in, he was going to stop writing what he was working on and he wanted to start right away. He found the heart in the story, the heart that I had lost along the way. Watching it in the theater for the first time with my family was the moment of my life. In a thousand years, I wouldn't be able to thank him enough, but this is a start, and I'm grateful for that. With immeasurable pride and still utter disbelief, I present "Molly's Game."

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-You didn't do anything wrong. -I threw four people under the bus for $35,000, Charlie. I noticed you kept that out of your speech to the prosecutor. -No, don't do that to me. -I took advantage of gambling addicts. Donnie Silverman, my brilliant find, he lost $6 million on my table... -Molly. Stop. Stop. -...moved to Florida... -Uh-huh. -...got a job as a substitute teacher, then hanged himself in his shower. -Oh! And that's your fault? That's not your fault! -Donnie Silverman's dead, Harlan Eustice is in jail in Nevada, wishing he was, but that's not why I'm saying no. -You're not saying no. -I was named after my great-grandmother. -I don't care. -Molly Dubin Bloom is my name. -We'll stay here all night until you understand -- until you understand nobody gives a... about your good name. -I do. -Why? -

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Because. -Why? -Because! -Tell me why! -Because it's all I have left. Because it's my name. And I'll never have another.

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-It's my pleasure to present the Movies for Grownups Award for Best Screenwriter to Aaron Sorkin.

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-Ah, thank you very much. And, uh, Molly, having you present this to me is a very big deal. Um, I'll back to you in just a moment.

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Uh, early one morning, a long time ago, my father came over to my apartment where I was living in New York at the time because the Academy Award nominations were being announced, and there was some hope that a film I'd written that year would be nominated. And when it wasn't, my father turned to me and said, "Aaron, how many people in the world do you think woke up this morning with even a reasonable expectation that they might get an Oscar nomination?"

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And that's when I discovered that, for most people, it's an honor just to be nominated -- in my family, it's an honor just to be overlooked.

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So you can imagine how they and I feel about getting recognition like this in the company of a group of people like this. Uh, I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like, what I think my father would like, and then I keep my fingers crossed that enough other people will like it that I get to keep doing it. Uh, I-I like to give the audience what Lily Tomlin calls "the goose-bump experience." And that experience, Molly, is what I felt, uh, the first time I met you. I was so completely knocked out by your quiet sense of integrity, by your brilliance, by your sly sense of humor, by the fact that I knew that I'd be able to write that scene, and that you would be able to give the audience the goose-bump experience. There is no better delivery system ever invented for an idea than a story, and in this room are some of the world's greatest storytellers. So, in times like this, I would just ask you to remember that. Molly, uh, you are my heroine forever. Uh, you are a phenomenal muse, a fantastic inspiration, uh, and the fact that you trusted me, um, with your life, frankly, I -- that is an unrepayable debt. Thank you. And thank all of you.

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I don't know. I-I sort of expected Aaron Sorkin to accept his award like the people in his TV shows and films do -- you know, like in a long, long, long single take, walking and talking, right off the stage, through the audience, into the lobby, past the valet, and into a Tesla. But...

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...no. And now the award for Best Actor. Here are the first-rate nominees. Steve Carell, "Battle of the Sexes." -How 'bout this? "Man versus Woman." "Male Chauvinist Pig versus Hairy-Legged Feminist." No offense. -Daniel Day-Lewis, "Phantom Thread." -Why are you not married? -I make dresses. -Gary Oldman, "Darkest Hour." -You cannot reason with a tiger... when your head is in its mouth!

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-Denzel Washington, "Roman J. Israel, Esq." -You know what? I don't have time for this. -Well, I'm sorry for taking a nanosecond off of your assembly-line, rubber-stamp existence. -The people withdraw their offer.

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Hello? -Tom Hanks, "The Post." -There's dozens of stories in here. The Times has barely scratched the surface. We have 10 hours till the deadline, so... we dig in.

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-And now, to present the award, an Emmy-winning actor who costars as King George VI in "Darkest Hour," Ben Mendelsohn.

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-I am so happy to announce the Movies for Grownups Award for Best Actor goes to the extraordinary Gary Oldman.

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Gary's performance in our film is one for the ages. And during what, uh, many people see as a global crisis of leadership, it's no wonder why this captivating portrayal resonates around the world. Gary dives headlong into the prime minister's first tumultuous weeks in office, as he wrestles with the question, "What does it take to lead during our bleakest moments?" Uh, his physical transformation is nothing short of mind-blowing. Gary spent more than 200 hours in the makeup chair and hundreds more under those blistering lights and in front of that lens which loves him so much.

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However, it's not the makeup that does it -- it's the nuance that he brings to this electrifying performance that makes Churchill come alive. At one point in the film, Churchill's wife, Clementine, tells him that he's strong because he's imperfect and wise because he has doubts. And while Gary embodied Churchill's imperfections and wisdom, what makes his performance so exemplary is that he pulled it off without showing a shadow of his own doubts. This fascinating portrayal reveals one of the most brilliant men of all time during his darkest hour. -Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous states have -- have fallen or may fall...

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...into the, uh, grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of the Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end!

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We shall fight in France. We shall fight on the seas and oceans. We shall fight with -- with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. -Yeah! -Yeah! -We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be! -Yeah! -Aye, aye! -We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!

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-Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it is my pleasure to present the award for Best Actor to Gary Oldman.

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-Oh! Thank you very much. Uh, thank you, Ben, for that lovely introduction. Um, I'm nearly 60. The eyes are starting to go.

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The knees are a little dodgy. Um, I make those old-man sounds when I get up out of chairs.

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You know that sound.

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And then my wife says, "Are you all right?" And I go, "Yeah, I'm just standing up."

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But the great thing about being 60 is the things I've experienced and being able to say, "I was there." Dame Helen Mirren, I saw you as Nina in "The Seagull." It would have been 1975, '76. I fell in love with you and your acting. -Why didn't you tell me?

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-Well, I was a shy 14-year-old, you know.

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I have -- Well, I've been in love with you and your wonderful work ever since, so congratulations. After 50, it just got better. What can I say? I have the role of a lifetime. Um, I did a little research, and, um, the cast of "Darkest Hour," with the exception of Ben and a few others, the years in the cast add up to 884.

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So we were a wise, we were a mature and a decorated bunch. Um, I am absolutely, uh, chuffed and thrilled with this, and I would just -- just like to say I-I must acknowledge th-those who -- who encouraged me to dare the role. And that is my lovely wife, Gisele, my agent, uh, Jim Osborne, Eric Fellner, of course, at Working Title, and my dear, dear, dear friend and partner Douglas Urbanski. I would not be standing here with-- without you in my life. So thank you very much.

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-So, now to present our Career Achievement Award, please welcome a distinguished actor who is currently starring in "Mudbound" and also in the new movie "Winchester" -- Jason Clarke.

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-Thank you. Wow. I just saw Joe Orton talking to the queen.

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I'm a little nervous because, uh, the queen talks back, obviously, from the -- from the proscenium. Um, listen, ladies and gentlemen, tonight, I have what I think and I hope is one of the easiest of jobs. I get to present the Career Achievement Award to a most luminous woman in the midst of one of the most extraordinary careers. Helen Mirren said -- and I quote you, Helen -- "What it is all about is freedom. I take my inspiration from babies and dogs, and I'm constantly battling to be as free as them." So, not for the first time, Helen, I'm gonna take a cue from you, and I'm gonna take a -- uh, borrow a book, one of my favorite books of my son's, which, like these awards, is also for grownups. Congratulations, Helen. Tonight is your night. "You've been to great places, you've soared to great heights. With those brains in your head and those feet in your shoes, you have steered yourself any way you choosed." And so you are many things to many people all over this wonderful world. Helen Mirren is the Queen Elizabeth -- both of them. She is Detective Jane Tennison. She is an Oscar winner, an Emmy winner, Tony winner, a BAFTA winner, an action hero, sex symbol, a dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, an adventurer who has never stopped exploring, a student who has never stopped listening, and a teacher who truly never stops giving. Yours, Helen, is a career that is arguably and honestly unparalleled through film, television, and theater. As a supporting actor, as a character actor, as a leading actor, as a bankable star. Yes. You are the consummate example of all that is good and grand in our profession. You're a beacon of "why acting is a noble profession worth pursuing." "She doth bestride the natural world like a colossus." She's a constant leading lady in an industry that gives very small windows to leading ladies. She is pioneering "proof in the pudding" of all that is possible. The places you have been, the characters you have played, and the stories you have told -- you have climbed mountains, Helen Mirren... with grace and a smile. You never wanted to be famous. You just wanted to be a great actress. But we've got a little proof in the pudding that you are, indeed, both.

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-They say you're a legend around here. I've, um... I've never heard of you. Must've been a bit before my time. Ohh! Aah! Aah! Aah! -Well, you've heard of me now. -I know not by what power I am made bold, but I beseech your grace that I may know the worst that may befall me in this case if I refuse to wed Demetrius. -I may be getting old, Dr. Price, but I assure you I have not lost my senses. I know the difference between illusion and reality. -Yes, we love our work.

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-And if you can't give us 10 minutes of your time, Madam Chairman, then -- well, then, frankly, guys, I'm going to do it without council approval. -More. Show me more. Show me the dragon. Tell me the sacred Charm of Making! -Even though such knowledge would burn and blind you? -Then burn me. -

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-Your Majesty is not to have access to the king's presence. -Not have access? But I am the queen. What are you doing?! No, no! Get me Cecil! Get me Cecil! I'm the Queen of England! -Show me something.

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-Oh! -Make sure the safety's off before you start shootin' them, sweetheart. -Already done it, hon. -"Hitch," but you can't scare people just by going "boo." -All right, you do it, then. You -- You know it best. -Hitch, they have to anticipate it. -You always know best. Do it. -Take a -- Just take a step back. -I've never stopped loving you. -Of course. -But God knows you don't make it easy. -Why should it be easy? I am the work of your life -- you are the work of mine. That's what love is.

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-You didn't kiss me. So... I suppose I have to make my own breakfast. -Oh, you beauty. -What gift do you think a good servant has that separates them from the others? It's the gift of anticipation. And I'm a good servant. I'm better than good -- I'm the best. I'm the perfect servant. -We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. -And may we, each and every one of us, thank God for someone who made many, many people happy.

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-All that and more. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to present the Career Achievement Award to Helen Mirren!

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-Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. That's immensely kind of you. Thank you. And especially thank you to Jason, who just made me feel like a million bucks, I have to say. You know, we don't want to be vain and self-regarding, but, gosh, it's ever so nice

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to be flattered like that. Um... Uh, you know, lifetime achievement... loaded words there, aren't there? You know, achievement -- very nice. Time. Life. You know, many -- many years ago, I went to a palm reader. I was in my early 20s, and I was feeling incredibly insecure about myself and about the future and -- and imagining that really nothing would ever happen to me and my -- none of my dreams would come true. I wanted desperately to be a successful -- to be an actress, actually, just to be an actress, really. Um, so, um, in my despair and confusion, I went to this palm reader. And, um, I walked in, and, uh, it cost a fiver. And, um --

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And he gave a wh-- a sheaf of, uh, papers and a pencil because he said, "I'll read your palm, and I'll talk really, really fast, and you won't remember anything, so write it all down." Um, so, he read my palm, and then he started talking, and he d-- he did talk really, really fast, and I was writing, writing, writing, writing on these -- on these piece -- on these papers. Another piece of paper, another piece of paper. And, eventually, he said, "That's it." And I gave him the fiver, and I was out of there with this huge sheaf of papers upon which... none of which -- He was right. I couldn't remember anything. Uh, and, uh... and there was my future in -- in this pile of papers. And I looked at it, and I went to the nearest trash bin, and I threw it away. I threw my future away. Or, rather, I threw the knowledge of my future away. In other words -- And -- And here I want to quote the words of a very wise woman called Margaret Heffernan, and this is her quote. "Life has always been uncertain, and every generation has imagined that the future would be like the past, repeating itself, or like the present, staying the same. But it's neither. It is unknown. Nothing -- Nothing lasts forever. History doesn't really repeat itself. Life keeps surprising us." That's what makes it so rich with possibility. If it -- If it were all truly known, planned, and determined, it just -- it wouldn't be worth living. Just a giant to-do list waiting to be crossed off. But when something is unknown, why, then, anything can happen. Nothing is written. Everything is up for grabs. And so that is how the life I have lived up to this moment has unfolded -- with love, with work, with fun, with anger, with despair, with sadness, and with much laughter. So I thank all the colleagues I've ever worked with, all the wonderful writers, the directors. I thank my family, my husband, Taylor, my sister, Kate, who's here today, my nephew Simon, my representatives Fred and Stan, and, of course, I thank my lucky stars as I grab this award.

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Thank you very much.

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-Mark, this one's for you. Uh-huh. You got hitched onto a star Jedi forces took you far Luke is back, you're in the black Yes, dreams come true If only Disney had made the "Star Wars" movies. Wait. They do!

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The blockbuster franchise that began more than four decades ago continues with an epic adventure. Age-old mysteries of the Force are unlocked, and shocking truths from the past are revealed in our fourth nominee for Best Movie for Grownups -- "Star

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The Last Jedi." -When I found you, I saw raw, untamed power... ...and beyond that... ...something truly special.

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-Something... inside me has always been there. But now it's awake. And I need help.

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-I've seen this raw strength only once before. It didn't scare me enough then. It does now. -Let the past die. That's the only way to become what you were meant to be.

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-This is not going to go...

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...the way you think. -Fulfill... ...your... destiny. -I need someone... ...to show me my place in all this.

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-I'm -- I'm a little envious of the actors in that clip because I've never been in a "Star Wars" film. But I do have something that they don't -- the silhouette of C-3PO.

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Thank you very much. And now it's my pleasure to introduce the CEO of AARP, and BTW, I'll do this ASAP, LOL. Please welcome Jo Ann Jenkins.

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-I'd like to extend my congratulations to Helen Mirren for the extraordinary achievements and to all of our award winners who create Movies for Grownups. Our next award recognizes the best movie of the year that focuses on historical events. The winner of the Best Time Capsule is "Dunkirk."

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Set during World War II, it tells the monumental true story of how 400,000 British and Allied troops trapped on French beaches were rescued by hundreds of small civilian boats sailing from Britain. Crafted like a thriller by director Christopher Nolan, "Dunkirk" is told through both edge-of-your-seat action sequences and attention to the smallest of details. This film honors those who served and those who continue to put their lives on the line in the name of freedom around the world. For the generation that was raised on the telling of this inspiring rescue mission, it's a harrowing reminder of the barely averted catastrophe and the legendary "Dunkirk Spirit." For new audiences, it's a look at the brutality of war and the triumph of ordinary people coming together in a time of crisis. Here are a few moments that immersed audiences in this epic experience of "Dunkirk."

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-We shall fight on the beaches.

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-Ladies and gentlemen, to accept the Movies for Grownups Award for Best Time Capsule, I have the honor of introducing a true hero -- a World War II veteran who was a 20-year-old signalman in the Royal Navy during the Battle of Dunkirk. He was training in Portsmouth when the call went out for all able-bodied men to assist in the manning of the little ships in that miraculous rescue mission. He jumped into action, and he saved lives. This story is his story. Please welcome retired Petty Officer Ken Sturdy.

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-This movie has a simple title -- "Dunkirk." If I was to re-title it, I would call it "The Miracle of Dunkirk."

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Memory is a strange thing. I think seeing that film, which was made -- as you just heard -- by Christopher Nolan, reawakened many old memories. Now, the story, really, it's an interesting and very simple story -- we've got 300,000 of our troops stranded on a beach in Dunkirk, which is a small port in northern France, and the word went out -- if you have a small boat and you're physically active, for heaven's sake, get across to the continent and do your best to save some of these men. And that is why, still in my thinking, how the heck did we save them?

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Because the men were not just standing there, waiting and observing -- they were being bombed from the air, machine gunned from the air by the enemy, and still we managed to save so many of them, and this story is really what that film is about. Most stories have -- to make them interesting in a movie theater -- there's a little love interest, boy meets girl. None of this film...

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This is the grim reality of warfare. And I would like to offer thanks to all those who took part in the making of this film, particularly the director, who contacted me this evening to -- telling me that I would be here. If you haven't seen this film, do your best to see it. It's...

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-Wow, that was beautiful. You'll be glad to know we're about halfway through -- only 75 more awards to go.

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And now, to present Best Director, please welcome my slightly taller body double, the amphibian man from "The Shape of Water," Doug Jones.

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-Well, now you can see why they always cover me up with rubber make-ups.

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-Whoo! -I actually could not be more thrilled or proud or honored and all those words that the Movies for Grownups Award for Best Director goes to my friend -- and my favorite director I have ever worked with -- Guillermo del Toro.

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Now, Guillermo will be the first one to tell you that he is the ultimate fan of cinema. He loves his monster movies. I should know -- I've been in several of them.

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And he loves the classics. And the 1954 classic the "Creature from the Black Lagoon" inspired him to become the storyteller that he is today. In so many of those old films, the humans have sympathy for a monster, and there's even a hint of romance, but it's always unrequited love. Guillermo wanted to make that movie finally where the monster does get the girl. I was that lucky monster.

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In fact, as a kid, even, Guillermo will tell you that he, after seeing the "Creature from the Black Lagoon" and seeing the monster and Julie Adams and just assuming they would end up together, he would doodle from that point on pictures of the two of them sharing an ice cream cone or on a tandem bike together or

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sharing a sunset at the beach. I'm not kidding. All these years later, the grownup Guillermo has created this beautiful story to give us hope that love is available to all of us, even if we feel we're hopeless and love has passed us by. It hasn't. It's possible, and it's plausible -- even for a monster like me. Here's a look at some of the stunning work from Guillermo del Toro in "The Shape of Water."

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-Three, two, one. Ready? Action! -Guillermo del Toro -- he's an alchemist. He makes everyday things seem so otherworldly. -Let's find positions, please. -He's incredibly precise, and he has such a strong vision. -Yeah, perfect.

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-Ladies and gentlemen, the winner of the Movies for Grownups Award for Best Director, and my dear friend, Guillermo del Toro.

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-Thank you.

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Thank you. This is gorgeous, by the way. It is. You know, I have the -- the absolute certainty that we live our lives, our entire lives, for the last three minutes of them. You know, when all the barriers fall down, when all the illusions of who we were or what our titles were, go away, and we have the prodigious fading to black, and we realize what we did and what we didn't. As we do that, and we look back, we realize that we have aged backwards. I was 70 years old when I was 7.

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I was worried about everything from original sin to the expanding universe like Woody Allen did. And as I grew older, that anguish didn't fade until recently. I-I really feel that a -- stories help us heal, and when we articulate them, they heal ourselves and others. There's a beautiful thing in Japanese aesthetics called "kintsugi," which is the broken jar, the broken cup, that is repaired with gold and that shows the scars that -- and that shows the fractures patched in that gold. I think that's what stories do, and that's why, as we age, we have a single duty, and that is to tell our stories because we get bolder. And we decide it's time to do a movie in love with love and in love with cinema and make it a musical and make it a thriller and make it a comedy and tell the way we see the world. That's all we can do. We do it for the generations to come because we want to say we all feel the need to draw a line in the sand, but as you grow older, you want to erase those lines. Want to say -- that's the only way we're gonna get together, because ideologies, we realize, separate us, make us lonely, reduce us to one word, one notion, and empathy and understanding get us together, you know, unite us. We realize that the other has always been us. That's all there is -- we don't have "us" and "them." That's what they tell us to trick us into fracturing and becoming something else. It's all of us -- that's it. We share the stories, we share the laughter, we share a little bit of wisdom. In this movie, I want to thank my partners. I want to thank Dougie, I want to thank Richard, I want to thank the Michaels, Octavia Spencer, and the marvelous Sally Hawkins, Fox Searchlight for believing in this. Believe me, that was a pitch for the ages.

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You know?

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My partner Miles, you know, my agent Robert Newman, Gary Unger. I think that...we learn to value those that take risks with us, you know, those that realize that we don't want to tell the stories that have been told. We want to tell the ones that are -- need to be told in whatever shape they need to take, for love knows no shape, and we realize that emotion is the hardest thing to talk about in -- in our days right now. We have never been so close, and we've never been this far apart. We are so afraid of showing what we really feel, and we seem disingenuous when we admit that love exists and is the most powerful force in the universe, whether we like it or not, and it's like water, because it has no shape until it takes it, and it breaks through every barrier -- it breaks through every barrier, and it stops at nothing. I want to thank you for giving me this, the AARP. I want to thank my partners. And I'm gonna tell you that the oldest form of storytelling, which is fairy tales, as we grow older, we feel that need. We feel the need to sing a little lullaby that you can come out of the theater humming. Thank you.

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Three billboards in Ebbing Each one with a shocking verse Shaming cops into action Will the billboards make it worse? -This is a twisted tale about a frustrated mother who takes on the local cops when they fail to catch the killer of her daughter. She paints three billboards with a message calling out the chief of police and urging him to do something. Our final nominee for Best Movie for Grownups is "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri." -So, Mildred Hayes, why did you put up these billboards? -My daughter, Angela, was murdered seven months ago. It seems to me the police department is too busy torturing black folks to solve actual crimes. -What the hell is this?

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-Dixon, I'm in the middle of my goddamn Easter dinner. Sorry, kids. -I know, Chief, but I think we got kind of a problem. - Sunshine beating on the good times -I'd do anything to catch your daughter's killer. I don't think those billboards is very fair. -The time it took you to get out here whining a bitch, Willoughby, some other poor girl's probably out there being butchered right now. -We've had two official complaints about those billboards. -From who? -A lady with a funny eye. -A lady with a funny...eye? -And a fat dentist. -There's a lot of good friends of Willoughby in this town, Ms. Hay-- Ow! Aah! Aah! -You didn't happen to drill a little hole into the dentist today, did you? -Of course not. -Huh? -I said, "Of course not." -I'm sorry about Angie, but the town is dead set against these billboards. -You know who threw that can? -What can? -How 'bout you, sweetheart? -Uh, no, I-I didn't rea--

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-Go, girl. -The more you keep a case in the public eye, the better your chances are getting it solved.

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-You know, if you hadn't stopped coming to church, you'd have a little bit more understanding of people's feelings. -Aah! -All this anger, man... -...we used to pass by... -it just begets greater anger. -...every day -In three, two, one. - Just walk away, Renee You won't see me...

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-And now the award for Best Actress. Here are the nominees. Annette Bening, "Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool." -You should go to a hospital... -No. -...where they can treat you, where they can actually... -No. -...take proper care of you. Go -- -No! No! -Judi Dench, "Victoria & Abdul." -I am perhaps disagreeably attached to power... and should not have smashed the Emperor of Russia's egg. But I am anything but insane. -Salma Hayek, "Beatriz at Dinner." -I have to say, if you had been that man, I would have thought that fate brought us together. -For what? -I don't know. Revenge maybe? -Meryl Streep, "The Post." -I'm not protecting Lyndon. -No, you got his former Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, the man who commissioned this study. -I'm not protecting him. -He's one of about a dozen party guests out on your patio. -I'm not protecting any of them. I'm protecting the paper. -Frances McDormand, "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri." -Hey, baby.

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Yep. Still no arrests. "How come?" I wonder. 'Cause there ain't no God, and the whole world's empty, and it doesn't matter what we do to each other?

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-To present the award, Oscar nominee and four-time Emmy winner Alfre Woodard.

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-Because this is an actor to whom I look for a reminder of how to work thoroughly, honestly, in pitch and in focus, how to bring a person forward as opposed to simply a character, I am delighted to tell all of you grownups that this year's Movies for Grownups Award for Best Actress goes to Annette Bening...

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...for her inspired performance in Paul McGuigan's "Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool." The movies depicts the defiant, painful final act of one of Hollywood's most talented leading ladies, Gloria Grahame. It's a love story between Gloria and a much younger aspiring actor, Peter Turner, whose memoir is the basis for this film. When Gloria first appears, she is in self-imposed exile doing regional theater in England. After all-too-public relationships with elite Hollywood players, she finds happiness with a young man, who, unaware of her former life, loves her for who she is. Annette's performance brings to life a daring, contrary, and fragile woman who reminds us that being a performing artist is a lonely, intense, and glorious way to live. He's a look at Annette Bening in "Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool." -Sorry, Gloria, but it looks like it's come back. -What's come back? No, I-I... My -- My breasts are clear. I had the test in L.A. -When was that? -Um... it was about two years ago? -Well, I need to call the oncologists in California when they wake up. -Well, I -- The radiation killed it. -The only way to kill it is chemo, which you should have had with your radiation. You should have had chemotherapy, Gloria. Did the doctors offer it in L.A.? -Uh, yes, but, um... they told me that I'd lose all my hair, and, uh, that everybody would've found out -- I mean, the casting directors and my family and... and, uh, I need to work, and I can't work without my hair.

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-Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor as well as my pleasure to present the award for Best Actress to my friend, the incandescent Annette Bening.

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-Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, Alfre, and thank you to the AARP for this beautiful award tonight. We made this film as a love story. Peter Turner was our inspiration. He wrote a beautiful, tasteful, slender volume about loving Gloria Grahame, and with Barbara Broccoli and Colin Vaines as producers.

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So many great men really helped us make this film. Matt Greenhalgh wrote the screenplay, Paul McGuigan, our director, all the actors, and Jamie Bell, who I'm so grateful to. He gave me so much, and I -- I really love him. He became a true friend to me. So I very much appreciate this. I feel like more of a fan tonight than a participant.

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Watching everyone up here, I'm so inspired. My -- My parents -- My dad has been ill. He's 91. And I've been with them, and it's been tough, but he's going to get through this, have another chapter. But coming here tonight -- what an inspiration, because it reminds all of us what we want to do, which is to tell stories, to get the goose-bump moment -- which I've had a number of times tonight -- and to connect, as many have said. So what a pleasure to be with all of you in this moment, and I really appreciate this. Thank you.

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-We've come to the final award of the night, and it's the big one. Once again, here are the nominees for Best Movie for Grownups.

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The winner... is "Star The Last Jedi."

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To present the award, please welcome Mark Hamill and Kelly Marie Tran.

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-How amazing! -Oh, my God. -Aah! -

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As a bona fide senior citizen, I think I've earned my right to be here tonight.

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But it is a great honor to be amongst so many people that I've adored my entire life and have inspired me, so thank you so much to the AARP for letting us be a part of this. And I've seen every movie in this category, and I think they all deserve to win.

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-Whoo! -Honestly. I-I truly, truly believe that. You know, one of the most common questions that I get asked is, "Mark, when you were making the original 'Star Wars,' did you think that, 40 years later, you'd still be making them?"

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It's not a rhetorical question. They actually ask that.

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But thank God there's a Jedi pension plan.

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One of the things that I really like about the films is the multigenerational aspect. You know, children that were fans of the original films are grown now and are sharing them with their children and even their grandchildren. It's amazing to me. I never get tired of people who come up to me and relate stories -- it's become such a fabric of pop culture -- and they say, "You helped me get through my mother's illness," or, "I met my wife on line for the original. By the third sequel, we had children named 'Luke' and 'Leia.'"

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And you visit hospitals. It -- It -- It's so moving. A child who told me, "I'm not afraid that they're gonna amputate my arm because Luke lost his hand, and Luke's a hero." I'm telling you, it -- it just -- It's -- It's stunning how it's impacted people's lives, and I'm so grateful to have been a part of it, and now to share it with the new generation, the new cast members, like

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this young lady, the adorable and almost criminally talented Kelly Marie Tran.

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Um. It's no secret that this was my first movie.

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-Whoo! -Um, yeah!

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...getting the opportunity to work on a film like this has truly been surreal. Because I'm the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, I think that I am constantly reminding myself that everything that we get to do is truly impossible. And during production, I had the privilege of being able to kind of explore and walk around set and go to different departments, and what surprised me the most was probably the fact that everybody was just as in awe as I was. I am so honored to have worked alongside such amazing people... -Aww! -...Mark -- Specifically Mark Hamill. -That's the "aww." -

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-Aww! -It's incredible to me just how much these characters mean to so many people across different backgrounds and cultures and ages. It's been an honor to be a part of it.

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-To honor a film that continues to reach fans from 6 to 106, it's our pleasure to present the award for Best Movie to "Star The Last Jedi." -Accepting is our visionary writer and director, the one and only Rian Johnson.

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-Thanks. Wow. Thank you guys so much. Kelly and I were kind of the new kids in the "Star Wars" family, and every day on set, I looked at the way that Kelly looked at -- this is her first movie -- the way that she looked at something that could have been so overwhelming and scary and jumped into it with such joy. I took such inspiration from her spirit. And -- And, Mark, I think that we can take the phrase "never meet your heroes" back behind the barn and shoot it, because over the past four years getting to become your friends and collaborator has been one of the great privileges and pleasures of my life, and as far as heroes go, you're Luke Skywalker, man, so can't be better than that.

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I'll be really quick. I know we're at the end of the evening. I'll be really fast. I do want to thank just a couple people -- my partner Ram Bergman, Kathy Kennedy and everybody at Lucasfilm, Alan Horn, Alan Bergman, Bob Iger, everybody at Disney who let us get away with this, thank you. And my girlfriend, Karina, who was there through the entire thing. I love you. I also want to thank, obviously, the AARP for all the amazing work that you do and for this honor. I think, so often, films that are thoughtful and that have something on their minds are shuffled into a different category than films that are entertainment, and seeing all the films that have been honored here tonight, all the incredible work from all these amazing people, it shows that that doesn't have to be the case, and let's -- let's have more of that. Thank you you guys so much. Appreciate it.

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-Thanks to all of you at home for joining us for the Movies for Grownup Awards with AARP The Magazine. And to you here in this room tonight, our honorees, our storytellers, thank you for another year of movies that inspire and entertain all generations. Good night.

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