Helen Mirren embraces being an adult — which is no easy feat in an industry that marginalizes women over 40. She’s called out Hollywood’s ageism as “fucking outrageous” and spoken about how she’s much more confident and willing to tell people to “fuck off” now than when she was younger. So it makes perfect sense that Mirren will receive her next accolade at the 17th annual Movies for Grownups Awards.
According to the Associated Press, the Oscar winner will take home the Movies for Grownups’ Career Achievement Award on February 5. Established by the AARP in 2002, the Movies for Grownups Awards honor films and performers with “a grown-up state of mind.”
Mirren stated that she is “greatly honored” to receive the Career Achievement Award and described film as “the ultimate mirror up to nature.”
Previous Movies for Grownups Career Achievement awardees include Susan Sarandon and Sharon Stone.
You can watch Mirren pick up her award when PBS airs the Movies for Grownups Awards on February 23. The actress has two films coming out in early 2018: “The Leisure Seeker” and “Winchester.” The former, out January 19, sees Mirren and Donald Sutherland as a runaway couple traveling in an old RV. The latter, due February 2, is a horror film about a firearm heiress who is haunted by the people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle.
“I have come to understand that feminism is not an abstract idea but it’s a necessity if we — and really by ‘we,’ I mean you guys — are to move us forward and not backward into ignorance and fearful jealousy,” Mirren said in her Tulane University commencement address earlier this year. “So now, I am a declared feminist and I would encourage you to be the same.”
