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Robert De Niro and Jeff Bridges at 2010 Movies for Grownups Awards

2010 Movies for Grownups® Awards

It’s award season here in Hollywood and AARP The Magazine has announced its annual Movies for Grownups Awards® .

Movies for Grownups® is a regular feature in AARP’s Prime Time Radio program heard on over 200 public radio stations across the US. AARP The Magazine Entertainment editor Bill Newcott hosts the two minute feature that focuses exclusively on films created by and for the 50+ demographic. “Movies For Grownups” previews upcoming movies, reviews current theatrical and home video releases, and interviews filmmakers whose work reflects the hopes, dreams, and experience of this too-often forgotten age group.

La Chaise d'Or trophy (Golden Chair)

Clint Eastwood’s film Invictus, starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon was named the Best Movie for Grownups.  Helen Mirren took the Best Actress 50+ award for her work on The Last Station, and Jeff Bridges was named Best Actor 50+ for his portrayal of the booze-soaked county singer Bad Blake in Crazy Heart.  The Readers’ Choice award went to Sandra Bullock’s feel-good flick, The Blind Side.  Robert De Niro received the Lifetime Achievement Award.  Among the other categories are Best Intergenerational Film, Best Buddy Movie, and Breakthrough Accomplishment.

Complete list of awards and photos from the event –

http://www.aarpmagazine.org/entertainment/movies_for_grownups_2010awards/

Movies for Grownups® is also available as a podcast -

http://www.aarp.org/aarp/broadcast/aarp_radio/AARP_Radio_Podcasts/

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Neil Harvey has been an independent radio producer for 20 years.

He is Senior Producer and Host of the award winning radio series Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature which is heard in over 300 communities in the U.S., Canada and abroad. He was editor for the California Indian Radio Project and is now the audio archivist for the California Indian Storytelling Association. He Co-produced the CISA radio special When the Ancestors Whisper . . . Stories From Native California. As Senior Producer for New Dimensions Radio he produced several award winning special series including The Synthesis Dialogues with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Monticello Dialogues which feature anticipatory design architect William McDonough, and the 13-hour Deep Ecology For The 21st Century.

Early in his career he produced a number of radio features for NPR’s Morning Edition, was Associate Producer for the nationally distributed series Music From the Hearts of Space, and served as Host and Producer for The Love of Wisdom with Alan Watts. As a sound engineer he has worked in Sweden, Austria, India, Nepal, Mexico and Israel. He works from his home at the feet of the Trinity Alps in a small mountain community in far Northern California. A self described celebrant, his passions include gardening, wine making, painting, poetics and petanques.