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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/

Mike Cuthbert, Host of Prime Time Radio, a one-hour weekly interview program that focuses on the wide-ranging interests and concerns of Americans 40 and older, is a skilled interviewer and acute listener whose thorough preparation surprises and delights his guests. Mike converses intelligently, provocatively, and easily with celebrities, politicians, academics, and bureaucrats, drawing out their personalities and weaving their insights and expertise into stimulating discussions.

A native of Wisconsin, Mike holds a master’s degree in music and education. His nearly 40 years in radio began in Beloit, Wisconsin. Mike then moved to Washington, D.C., where he led the development of WGMS into one of the nation’s leading classical music radio stations. His talk-radio career began at WRC in Washington and has included top-rated WRKO in Boston, WCKY in Cincinnati, where he was designated “Best Talk Show Host,” and public radio’s WAMU in Washington, where he was recognized with a number of broadcasting awards. Married with four grown children and one grandchild, Mike also conducts a local concert band.

Click HERE to listen to Mike’s recent interview with Stacy Keach.

Mike Cuthbert hosted the hour-long Town Hall from AARP with President Obama on July 28, 2009.  Watch HERE.

American Women in Radio & Television announced the 34th Annual Gracie National Award Winners.  PICKING UP THE PIECES: How Family and Faith are Healing Veterans Home From War from Prime Time Radio won Outstanding Documentary – Mid-Length Format.   The award will be presented at a black-tie Gala in the Broadway Ballroom of the New York Marriott Marquis on Wednesday, June 3, 2009.

PICKING UP THE PIECES visits with five families of veterans wounded by IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan. The families are coping with the aftermath of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and post traumatic stress (PTSD). This special breaks new ground by focusing on the parents, especially mothers, who have given up everything — their jobs, retirement savings, and plans for the future – to step in and care for their sons. This issue has not gotten the attention is deserves. In the coming years, as additional tens of thousands of injured veterans return home, overburdened parents will respond with love and support, but the rest of us need to…

PICKING UP THE PIECES is a special from AARP’s radio series, Prime Time Radio.

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