"When the Academy Award Nominations were announced late last month, you could be forgiven for thinking they were lifetime achievement awards. In the Best Supporting Actor category, 74-year-old Stellan Skarsgård is competing against 73-year-old Delroy Lindo. (Sean Penn, at 65, and Benicio Del Toro, at 58, also in the category, are mere babes.) Amy Madigan, 75, is up for Best Supporting Actress. One of the Best Adapted Screenplay nominees is in their sixties, and one of the Best Original Screenplay nominees is in his seventies."
"After all, it's not just movies. If you're a music fan, you may have noticed something interesting last year. While Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter Tour was the highest grossing tour of 2025, pulling in $407.6 million, according to Pollstar, the second-highest earning artist was the Britpop group Oasis, band of the famously quarrelsome 50-something Gallagher brothers. Their reunion tour grossed $405.4 million."
High-profile film award nominations include numerous artists in their 60s and 70s, with nominees such as 74-year-old Stellan Skarsgård, 73-year-old Delroy Lindo, and 75-year-old Amy Madigan. Filmmakers and actors well into their seventies and eighties continue releasing and making films, exemplified by Steven Spielberg (79) releasing Disclosure Day and Martin Scorsese (83) beginning a new project starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. Veteran actors Robert De Niro, Helen Mirren, Meryl Streep, and Ben Kingsley remain box-office draws. In music, Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter Tour grossed $407.6 million while Oasis's reunion tour grossed $405.4 million, underscoring strong commercial power among older artists, including Bruce Springsteen, 75.
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