The Big Picture: Meryl Streep Career & Biographical Notes: Majored in drama at Vassar College, and earned an MFA from the Yale School of Drama Has been nominated for an Oscar a record 13 times Has appeared in three feature films directed by Mike Nichols, as well as the HBO movie Angels in America Secretly longs to do a Police Academy film

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• Adaptation.
• Devil Wears Prada, The
• Fantastic Mr. Fox, The
• It's Complicated
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• Mamma Mia! (Easier Version)
• Mamma Mia! (Harder Version)
• That's Not My Movie (Actresses Edition)

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Recent Movies:

Film	Date	Rating	Screens	Opening	Total	Box Office
Hope Springs	8/10/12	N/A
It's Complicated	12/25/09	R			35.05	Info
Fantastic Mr. Fox	11/13/09	PG			18.38	Info
Julie & Julia	8/7/09	N/A
Doubt	12/12/08	N/A
Lions for Lambs	11/9/07	R			12.12	Info
Rendition	10/19/07				4.78	Info
Evening	6/29/07	N/A
The Ant Bully	7/28/06		3050	8.43	24.62	Info
The Devil Wears Prada	6/30/06	PG-13	2847	40.14	119.00	Info
A Prairie Home Companion	6/9/06	PG-13	760	4.57	19.89	Info
Prime	10/28/05	PG-13	1827	6.22	22.73	Info
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	12/17/04	PG	3620	30.06	118.63	Info
The Manchurian Candidate	7/30/04	R	2867	20.02	65.95	Info
The Hours	12/27/02		402	4.64	41.60	Info

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Awards:

2008
Doubt

• Runner-up: Best Actress, Academy Awards
• Win: Best Actress, Screen Actors' Guild
• Win: Best Actress, Washington (DC) Area Film Critics Association
• Win: Best Actress, Broadcast Film Critics Association
• Nominee: Best Actress, Chicago Film Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Actress, Online Film Critics Association
• Nominee: Best Actress - Drama, Golden Globes
• Runner-up: Best Actress - Drama, Golden Satellites
• Runner-Up: Best Actress, Dallas Fort Worth Critics

Mamma Mia!

• Runner-up: Best Actress - Musical or Comedy, Golden Satellites
• Nominee: Best Actress - Musical or Comedy, Golden Globes

2006
A Prairie Home Companion

• Win: Best Supporting Actress, National Society of Film Critics

The Devil Wears Prada

• Runner-Up: Best Actress, Academy Awards
• Win: Best Actress - Musical or Comedy, Golden Satellites
• Win: Best Actress - Musical or Comedy, Golden Globes
• Win: Best Supporting Actress, National Society of Film Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Actress, Chicago Film Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Actress, Broadcast Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actress, Boston Film Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Actress, Online Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Actress, Dallas Fort Worth Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Actress, Screen Actors' Guild

2004
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actress, BOP's Calvin Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actress, Golden Globes

2003
Adaptation

• Nominee: Best Actress, London Film Critics

2002
Adaptation

• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actress, Academy Awards
• Win: Best Supporting Actress, Florida Film Critics
• Win: Best Supporting Actress, Golden Globes
• Win: Best Supporting Actress, Chicago Film Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actress, Broadcast Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actress, BOP's Calvin Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actress - Musical or Comedy, Golden Satellites

The Hours

• Runner-Up: Best Actress - Drama, Golden Satellites
• Runner-Up: Best Actress - Drama, Golden Globes

1999
Music of the Heart

• Runner-Up: Best Actress, Academy Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Actress, Screen Actors' Guild
• Runner-Up: Best Actress - Drama, Golden Globes

1998
One True Thing

• Runner-Up: Best Actress, Academy Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Actress - Drama, Golden Globes
• Runner-Up: Best Actress, Screen Actors' Guild

1996
Marvin's Room

• Runner-Up: Best Actress - Drama, Golden Globes

1995
The Bridges of Madison County

• Runner-Up: Best Actress, Academy Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Actress - Drama, Golden Globes
• Runner-Up: Best Actress, Screen Actors' Guild

1994
The River Wild

• Runner-Up: Best Actress, Screen Actors' Guild
• Runner-Up: Best Actress - Drama, Golden Globes

1992
Death Becomes Her

• Runner-Up: Best Actress - Musical or Comedy, Golden Globes

1990
Postcards from the Edge

• Runner-Up: Best Actress, Academy Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Actress - Musical or Comedy, Golden Globes

1989
She-Devil

• Runner-Up: Best Actress - Musical or Comedy, Golden Globes

1988
A Cry in the Dark

• Runner-Up: Best Actress, Academy Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Actress - Drama, Golden Globes

1987
Ironweed

• Runner-Up: Best Actress, Academy Awards

1985
Out of Africa

• Runner-Up: Best Actress, Academy Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Actress - Drama, Golden Globes

1983
Silkwood

• Runner-Up: Best Actress, Academy Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Actress - Drama, Golden Globes

1982
Sophie's Choice

• Win: Best Actress, Academy Awards
• Win: Best Actress - Drama, Golden Globes
• Win: Best Actress, Boston Film Critics

1981
The French Lieutenant's Woman

• Runner-Up: Best Actress, Academy Awards
• Win: Best Actress - Drama, Golden Globes

1979
Kramer vs. Kramer

• Win: Best Supporting Actress, Academy Awards
• Win: Best Supporting Actress, Golden Globes

1978
The Deer Hunter

• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actress, Academy Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actress, Golden Globes

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