Best Actress Glenn Close
Grownup Movies
Come of Age
Did you notice how many of our Movies for
Grownups® Awards winners—honored at the
Beverly Wilshire hotel on February 6—got Oscar
nods, too? There was Albert Nobbs’s Glenn Close,
our Best Actress winner. Meryl Streep collected
our award for Best Grownup Love Story (The Iron
Lady). Octavia Spencer accepted our Readers’
Choice award for The Help. The Descendants’
director, Alexander Payne, won for Best Movie.
Plus, we had stars Oscar didn’t, including Lifetime
Achievement winner Sharon Stone. She received
her award from director Martin Scorsese, who
took home our Breakthrough Achievement
Award. It was a breakthrough night for all!
Lifetime honoree
Sharon Stone with
her mentor, director
Martin Scorsese
Editor in chief
Nancy Graham
with, from left,
actors Perry
King, Michael
Nouri, and Bruce
Boxleitner
Award
presenter
The Help’s
Octavia
Spencer
Meryl Streep
with Kenneth
Win Win’s Burt
Alexander Payne,
director of The
Descendants
Sassy
comedian
Best Actor
Oliver Litondo
meets Louis
Gossett Jr.
The Descendants’
Amara Miller
Beginners’
Goran Visnjic
with The Artist’s
James Cromwell
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