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American actress Meryl Streep has been recognized with multiple awards and nominations for her work on screen and stage, including being one of few individuals to be nominated for both the Triple Crown of Acting and EGOT. Streep has won three Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, 9 Golden Globe Awards, three Emmy Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as nominations for 7 Grammy Awards and a Tony Award. She received numerous honorary accolades including an Honorary César in 2003, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2004, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2004, [1] the Honorary Golden Bear in 2012, [2] [3] and the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2017. [4] She received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2011 and President Barack Obama presented her with National Medal of Arts in 2010 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014. [5] [6]
She holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations of any actor, having been nominated 21 times—17 for Best Actress, and four for Best Supporting Actress—since the first nomination in 1978 for her performance in The Deer Hunter . [7] She has won three times for her work in Kramer vs. Kramer (1980), Sophie's Choice (1983), and The Iron Lady (2012), making her the fifth actor to win three competitive acting Academy Awards. [lower-alpha 1] In 2009, Streep became the most-nominated performer in the Golden Globe Awards history when her Best Actress nominations for Doubt and Mamma Mia! gave her 23 in total, surpassing Jack Lemmon’s previous record of 22. [9] [10] Three years later, she garnered her eighth win for The Iron Lady, more than any actors. [11] [12] She received a record-breaking 30th nomination for Florence Foster Jenkins (2013). [13]
With her fifteenth nomination for Florence Foster Jenkins in 2017, Streep tied with Judi Dench for the most-nominated actor at the BAFTA Awards. [14] She has won the award for Best Actress twice for her roles in The French Lieutenant's Woman (1982) and The Iron Lady (2012). For her work in The Hours , Streep received a Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival, who later recognized her with an Honorary Golden Bear at their 62nd ceremony. Her portrayal as Lindy Chamberlain in Evil Angels [lower-alpha 2] earned her a Cannes Film Festival Award.
In 1976, Streep won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Performance for her stage debut in Trelawny of the 'Wells' and Tennessee Williams' 27 Wagons Full of Cotton . [15] The latter work also earned her nominations for Best Actress at the Drama Desk and Tony Award. The following year, she was a double nominee at the Drama Desk Award for the featured role in The Cherry Orchard and starred in the musical Happy End. Streep won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie for her roles in the miniseries Holocaust (1978) and Angels in America (2003). She also won Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator for her work on documentary Five Came Back (2017). [16]
In 1983, Yale University, from which Streep graduated in 1975, [17] awarded her an Honorary Degree, a Doctorate of Fine Arts. [18] The first university to award her an Honorary Degree was Dartmouth College, where she spent time as a transfer student in 1970, in 1981. In 1998, Women in Film awarded Streep with the Crystal Award. [19] In 1999, she was awarded a George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film. [20] In 2004, at the Moscow International Film Festival, she was honored with the Stanislavsky Award for the outstanding achievement in the career of acting and devotion to the principles of Stanislavsky's school. In 2008, Streep was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. In 2009, she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts by Princeton University. [21] In 2010 she elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Arts degree by Harvard University. [22] [23] [24]
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Year | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
1979 | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Manhattan | Nominated | [46] |
Best Actress in a Leading Role | The Deer Hunter | Nominated | ||
1980 | Kramer vs. Kramer | Nominated | [47] | |
1981 | The French Lieutenant's Woman | Won | [48] | |
1982 | Sophie's Choice | Nominated | [49] | |
1983 | Silkwood | Nominated | [50] | |
1985 | Out of Africa | Nominated | [51] | |
2002 | The Hours | Nominated | [52] | |
Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Adaptation | Nominated | ||
2004 | The Manchurian Candidate | Nominated | [53] | |
2006 | Best Actress in a Leading Role | The Devil Wears Prada | Nominated | [54] |
2008 | Doubt | Nominated | [55] | |
2009 | Julie & Julia | Nominated | [56] | |
2011 | The Iron Lady | Won | [57] | |
2016 | Florence Foster Jenkins | Nominated | [58] | |
Primetime Emmy Awards | ||||
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Year | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
1978 | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Television Movie | Holocaust | Won | [59] |
1997 | ...First Do No Harm | Nominated | ||
2003 | Angels in America | Won | ||
2017 | Outstanding Narrator | Five Came Back | Won | |
2020 | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | Big Little Lies | Nominated | |
2024 | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series | Only Murders in the Building | Nominated |
Year | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
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1987 | Best Album for Children | The Velveteen Rabbit | Nominated | [90] |
1990 | The Tailor of Gloucester | Nominated | ||
The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Nominated | |||
2007 | Best Spoken Word Album for Children | The One and Only Shrek! [lower-alpha 3] | Nominated | |
2008 | Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media | Mamma Mia! | Nominated | |
2020 | Best Spoken Word Album | Charlotte's Web (E. B. White) | Nominated | |
2024 | Big Tree | Nominated | ||
Year | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
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1976 | Best Featured Actress in a Play | 27 Wagons Full of Cotton | Nominated | [108] |
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress. Known for her versatility and adept accent work, she has been described as "the best actress of her generation". She has received numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over four decades, including a record 21 Academy Award nominations, winning three, and a record 34 Golden Globe Award nominations, winning nine. She also won two BAFTA Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Silver Bear and Honorary Golden Bear in Berlin International Film Festival and Best Actress, Honorary Palme d'Or in Cannes Film Festival.
The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed for excellence in both international film and television. It is an annual award ceremony held since 1944 to honor artists and professionals and their work. The ceremony is normally held every January, and has been a major part of the film industry's awards season, which culminates each year in the Academy Awards. The eligibility period for Golden Globes corresponds to the calendar year.
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Ironweed is a 1987 American drama film directed by Héctor Babenco. Adapted to the screen by William Kennedy from his similarly named Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, Ironweed stars Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, with Carroll Baker, Michael O'Keefe, Diane Venora, Fred Gwynne, Nathan Lane, and Tom Waits in supporting roles. The story concerns the relationship of a homeless couple—Francis, an alcoholic, and Helen, a terminally ill woman—during the years following the Great Depression. Major portions of the film were shot on location in Albany, New York. The film received mixed reviews and was a box-office bomb, but Nicholson and Streep received Oscar nominations for Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively, for their performances.
Angels in America is a 2003 American HBO miniseries directed by Mike Nichols and based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning 1991 play of the same name by Tony Kushner. Set in 1985, the film revolves around six New Yorkers whose lives intersect. At its core, it is the fantastical story of Prior Walter, a gay man living with AIDS who is visited by an angel. The film explores a wide variety of themes, including Reagan era politics, the spreading AIDS epidemic, and a rapidly changing social and political climate.
Julie & Julia is a 2009 American biographical comedy drama film written and directed by Nora Ephron starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams in the title roles with Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina, and Linda Emond in supporting roles. The film contrasts the life of chef Julia Child in the early years of her culinary career with the life of young New Yorker Julie Powell, who aspires to cook all 524 recipes in Child's cookbook in 365 days, a challenge she described on her popular blog, which made her a published author.
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The Post is a 2017 American political thriller film about The Washington Post and the publication of the Pentagon Papers. It was directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, and written by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer. It stars Meryl Streep as Katharine Graham, the publisher of the Washington Post, and Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee, the longtime executive editor of The Washington Post, with Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Carrie Coon, Alison Brie, and Matthew Rhys in supporting roles.