Demi Moore keeps Oscars momentum rolling with Best Actress win at AARP awards: 'The seniors are killing it'

Demi Moore keeps Oscars momentum rolling with Best Actress win at AARP awards: 'The seniors are killing it'
By: Entertainment Posted On: February 09, 2025 View:

One of the big stops this awards season may seem unlikely, but AARP the Magazine's Annual Movies For Grownups Awards has become one of the hottest (and most fun) events in town. The program advocates for audiences 50 and older to show aging is something to embrace in movies and television.

Following their wins at the Critics Choice Awards on Friday night, Oscars frontrunners Demi Moore and Adrien Brody kept their momentum going as they nabbed Best Actress and Best Actor, respectively, at Saturday's luncheon in Beverly Hills. While both stars have given inspiring speeches over the past several weeks, Moore got to show off a lighthearted side too.

"The seniors are killing it, of which I am proud to say I am," Moore, 62, said onstage. "If you had told me in my 20s that my 60s would be the best moments of my life, I wouldn't have believed it ... you couldn't pay me to be 21 again!"

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Here are more standout moments from the AARP Awards.

Moore and John Stamos have 'General Hospital' reunion

The Substance actress was given her award by John Stamos, her former co-star, who was "thrilled" to present the honor to his "old friend." The two starred on General Hospital as Moore played journalist Jackie Templeton and Stamos portrayed Blackie Parrish in the soap opera in the ’80s.

John Stamos and Demi Moore in an episode of General Hospital in 1982.

John Stamos and Demi Moore in an episode of General Hospital in 1982. (Erik Hein/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)

"We had big hair, big dreams and enough hairspray between us to single-handedly destroy the ozone," Stomos quipped. He said Moore was "not just another actress" but "had that faith, that rare electric quality that makes a star."

When Moore got onstage to accept the honor, she began by declaring she's "not a grown-up."

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"I feel like I'm like a 12-year-old boy," she said.

While Moore was clearly in a joking mood, she concluded with what's become one of her signature inspiring messages.

"The Substance forces [us] to look at the way society views beauty, aging and self-worth. But the more important question really is not what society is doing to us, but what we're doing to ourselves. And when we hold and appreciate the value of who we are, I truly believe that the world outside will change with us, and it can't happen the other way around," she said. "So to anyone who's ever felt like time is working against them, I hope that this film and this moment serve as a reminder that we don't fade, we evolve, and there's no expiration date for talent, passion, curiosity and purpose. And that's truly something worth celebrating."

Demi Moore, left, and John Stamos

Demi Moore accepts the Best Actress award from John Stamos onstage during AARP's annual Movies For Grownups Awards. (Michael Kovac/Getty Images for AARP)

Jane Seymour remembers 'my great love' Christopher Reeve

The actress presented the award for Best Documentary to the team behind Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story. Seymour and Reeve starred in the 1980 time-travel romance Somewhere in Time, and during her introduction, she honored her "great love" on-screen and off.

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"Chris was bright, fearless ... loved to fly airplanes, sail boats, ride horses. But after his tragic accident, he was unable to move and even unable to breathe alone," she said.

Reeve became paralyzed from the neck down following a horse riding accident in 1995. Reeve's family participates in the documentary, which follows his rise to stardom, the near-fatal incident and his activism.

"Once he processed what had happened to him, he asked, 'What can I do to help others in this situation?'" Seymour said. "All his energy, his intellect and his visibility to advance innovative research and to improve the quality of life [for] people and their families impacted by paralysis."

Alan Cumming's secret to living your best life

The Traitors host delighted the crowd as emcee. He sang original medleys about all the Best Picture nominees. He had the crowd — and especially Moore — laughing and engaged throughout the show with his theatrics. All of his jokes were on point.

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When Cumming spoke with Yahoo Entertainment ahead of the presentation, he shared this advice about living your best life at age 60.

"My whole theory about getting older is that people stop being curious," he said. "You let other people decide how you should live and dictate [it] to you. I've never done that. And I feel that is sort of the secret to, not necessarily staying young, but not acting your age. It's all about curiosity, and there's people who are 25 and [have] lost their curiosity. Especially as you get older, it is more sort of incumbent upon you to dress a certain way, do certain things. So stay curious, is my advice."

Adrien Brody gets emotional

The Oscar winner went entirely off-teleprompter for his moving speech.

"As an only child in Queens, surrounded by a lot of harshness, a lot of things I couldn't understand or defend myself against or defend others in this world against. I prayed to God to be a grown-up so that I would be somehow empowered to have a voice," he began. "And I realized that prayer has been answered through my work, to be able to speak to tremendous injustice and to give a voice to people who have been othered and not treated as equals ... to speak up against antisemitism, against racism."

Adrien Brody at the AARP the Magazine's annual Movies For Grownups Awards.

Adrien Brody at the AARP the Magazine's annual Movies For Grownups Awards. (Alberto Rogriguez/Variety via Getty Images)

Brody had the room laughing when he said that, truly, he read AARP the Magazine as a child.

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"I grew up reading AARP in my grandmother's home ... and remember the cards around and looking through the magazine and watching tennis on TV. My grandparents and my parents afforded me this moment. They treated me as a grown-up," he continued. "They treated me with respect. They gave me space to forge a creative path without judgment."

Brody concluded by calling out all of his peers "staying in the game."

"I've been doing this for almost 40 years, and I still have the same childlike enthusiasm that I've always had," he said.

Jodie Foster is manifesting a Natalie Portman project

Another icon who went mostly off-script was the True Detective: Night Country star, who, like Moore, seemed to be having a blast at the ceremony. She was always laughing at Cumming's jokes and made sure to find Moore for a sweet moment inside the ballroom at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Her speech was probably the biggest hit of the event.

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"I think the reason that I'm the happiest that I've ever been is that there is some weird chemical that hits your body when you have that 60th birthday where suddenly you just don't care about anything," the 62-year-old actress said when she won the award for Best Actress (TV).

When you’re younger, Foster said, you spent "all of this time agonizing about yourself ... the day that you make a decision not to do that anymore and to make it about others is the happiest day of your life."

Subconsciously, it seems Foster really wants to work with Natalie Portman. While talking about her love of acting, she highlighted some favorite acting partners, like her True Detective co-star Kali Reis.

"Working with a lot of new actors over the years that have played my daughter … whether it was Jennifer Lawrence or Jenna Malone, the list goes on. I say Natalie Portman, but I haven't worked with her. But who cares?" she said as the audience laughed.

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