2018 movies for grownups award winners

BEST GROWNUP LOVE STORY: _WHAT THEY HAD_ Based on the real experience of writer-director Elizabeth Chomko's family when Alzheimer's disease struck her grandmother, the film

movingly depicts one terrible marriage, of the young heroine (Hilary Swank), and one inspiring marriage, between her dementia-afflicted mother (Blythe Danner) and her doting husband and

caregiver (Robert Forster), who jokes about what the guys at work would say if they saw him tenderly painting her toenails. Movies have never seen a more moving depiction of endless love.

“Alzheimer’s patients can still be who they are even if they’re not the same as they were,” Chomko told AARP. “They don’t want people to treat them as though the illness is their whole

identity." BEST DOCUMENTARY: _WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?_ The most popular "straight" documentary of all time — excluding music, nature and political docs — is this

touching tribute to Mister Rogers, the children's TV host few grownups will ever forget. "If you have a subject like Mister Rogers that screams nostalgia for boomers and Gen Xers,

you are truly golden at the box office," former _Hollywood Reporter_ film analyst Carl DiOrio tells AARP. Commercial success aside, this documentary is pure gold. BEST FOREIGN FILM: 

_ROMA_ Few if any foreign-language films ever made have been bigger awards magnets than Alfonso Cuarón's extraordinary personal tribute to the nanny who helped raise him in

turn-of-the-1970s Mexico City, a woman who got pregnant out of wedlock during his childhood and still lives in his family home. Aiming for a film that looks like it's from the past, but

not remote or nostalgic, he crafted his career-capstone masterpiece at 56. BEST ENSEMBLE: _BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY_ Though Rami Malek gets much of the glory as Queen's front man Freddie

Mercury, the strength of the whole cast is what made this $818 million hit the most popular biopic in history. Standouts include grownups Tom Hollander, 51, and Aidan Gillen, 50, as

Queen's managers, and Mike Myers, 55, as a record exec trying to forbid them from releasing the bizarrely operatic single "Bohemian Rhapsody." The band defies him — as Myers

did when he defied producers who demanded a Guns N' Roses song for 1992's _Wayne's World_. Myers insisted on "Bohemian Rhapsody," sparking the Queen revival that

apparently won't ever bite the dust. READERS' CHOICE: _A STAR IS BORN_ If you thought any other film had a chance to be as popular as the fourth version of the classic tale of a

young up-and-comer (Lady Gaga) mentored by a grownup star (Bradley Cooper), you obviously never saw its Toronto Film Festival premiere, where fans lined up around the block in rainy, chilly

weather overnight to see it. No wonder it earned costar Sam Elliott, 74, who plays Cooper's wise brother and manager, his first Oscar nomination 50 years after his first film, _Butch

Cassidy_ and the_ Sundance Kid_.