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Posted on Jan 19, 2015

Meryl Streep's Every Single Oscar Nominated Performance EVER

This week, Meryl Streep received her NINETEENTH Academy Award nom for her performance in Into The Woods. Bow down to Queen Meryl.

by Eleanore Hutch

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Something wicked this way comes.... Meryl gives Bette Midler a run for her money playing this spooky witch. — Disney

Something wicked this way comes.... Meryl gives Bette Midler a run for her money playing this spooky witch.

Disney

Something wicked this way comes.... Meryl gives Bette Midler a run for her money playing this spooky witch.

Meryl valiantly proves Mother knows best. — Smokehouse Pictures

Meryl valiantly proves Mother knows best.

Smokehouse Pictures

Meryl valiantly proves Mother knows best.

Margaret Thatcher would cower in the face of the force that is Meryl Streep. — 20th Century Fox

Margaret Thatcher would cower in the face of the force that is Meryl Streep.

20th Century Fox

Margaret Thatcher would cower in the face of the force that is Meryl Streep.

Even with a ridiculous accent, Meryl is perfection. — Sony Pictures

Even with a ridiculous accent, Meryl is perfection.

Sony Pictures

Even with a ridiculous accent, Meryl is perfection.

Amy Adams + Meryl = dream team. — Miramax Films

Amy Adams + Meryl = dream team.

Miramax Films

Amy Adams + Meryl = dream team.

Meryl nails it again. That's all. — 20th Century Fox

Meryl nails it again. That's all.

20th Century Fox

Meryl nails it again. That's all.

Meryl STONED? The idea! Still, because she is Meryl, she's makes it believable. — Columbia Pictures

Meryl STONED? The idea! Still, because she is Meryl, she's makes it believable.

Columbia Pictures

Meryl STONED? The idea! Still, because she is Meryl, she's makes it believable.

Like Whoopi Goldberg in Sister Act 2, Meryl excels as a teacher in an underprivileged school who inspires a group of misfit teens through music. This is what Oscar noms are made of. — Miramax Films

Like Whoopi Goldberg in Sister Act 2, Meryl excels as a teacher in an underprivileged school who inspires a group of misfit teens through music. This is what Oscar noms are made of.

Miramax Films

Like Whoopi Goldberg in Sister Act 2, Meryl excels as a teacher in an underprivileged school who inspires a group of misfit teens through music. This is what Oscar noms are made of.

One word: goosebumps. — Universal Studios

One word: goosebumps.

Universal Studios

One word: goosebumps.

Meryl and Clint Eastwood as star crossed lovers who have an intense moment in the pouring rain? There's a reason that this is everyone's mom's favorite movie. — Warner Brothers

Meryl and Clint Eastwood as star crossed lovers who have an intense moment in the pouring rain? There's a reason that this is everyone's mom's favorite movie.

Warner Brothers

Meryl and Clint Eastwood as star crossed lovers who have an intense moment in the pouring rain? There's a reason that this is everyone's mom's favorite movie.

Had Meryl's life got another way, her acting career could have turned out like her character's in Postcards From The Edge. *shudders* — Columbia Pictures

Had Meryl's life got another way, her acting career could have turned out like her character's in Postcards From The Edge. *shudders*

Columbia Pictures

Had Meryl's life got another way, her acting career could have turned out like her character's in Postcards From The Edge. *shudders*

Meryl can literally do ANY accent. — Warner Bros

Meryl can literally do ANY accent.

Warner Bros

Meryl can literally do ANY accent.

The New York Times said of this role: 'Streep uses the role of Helen as an opportunity to deliver a stunning impersonation of a darty-eyed, fast-talking woman of the streets, an angry, obdurate woman with great memories and no future.' — TriStar Pictures

The New York Times said of this role: 'Streep uses the role of Helen as an opportunity to deliver a stunning impersonation of a darty-eyed, fast-talking woman of the streets, an angry, obdurate woman with great memories and no future.'

TriStar Pictures

The New York Times said of this role: 'Streep uses the role of Helen as an opportunity to deliver a stunning impersonation of a darty-eyed, fast-talking woman of the streets, an angry, obdurate woman with great memories and no future.'

Meryl was out of this world in Out of Africa. — Universal Pictures

Meryl was out of this world in Out of Africa.

Universal Pictures

Meryl was out of this world in Out of Africa.

You know when you team that fierceness that is Meryl up with a diva like Cher, you are bound for cinematic perfection. — 20th Century Fox

You know when you team that fierceness that is Meryl up with a diva like Cher, you are bound for cinematic perfection.

20th Century Fox

You know when you team that fierceness that is Meryl up with a diva like Cher, you are bound for cinematic perfection.

Sophie's Choice was Meryl's career changing role. By this point she already had one Academy Award under her belt, but her performance as a mother facing an impossible decision was one of the best of that decade.
It's no wonder she would only do that scene in one take and refused to do it again, because she found it so painful and emotionally draining. — Universal Pictures

Sophie's Choice was Meryl's career changing role. By this point she already had one Academy Award under her belt, but her performance as a mother facing an impossible decision was one of the best of that decade.
It's no wonder she would only do that scene in one take and refused to do it again, because she found it so painful and emotionally draining.

Universal Pictures

Sophie's Choice was Meryl's career changing role. By this point she already had one Academy Award under her belt, but her performance as a mother facing an impossible decision was one of the best of that decade.
It's no wonder she would only do that scene in one take and refused to do it again, because she found it so painful and emotionally draining.

In this film, Meryl plays two different characters. Talk about range! — United Artists

In this film, Meryl plays two different characters. Talk about range!

United Artists

In this film, Meryl plays two different characters. Talk about range!

Meryl's first win at the Oscars was for this role. She made this role of a young mother with too many responsibilities so endearing. — Columbia Pictures

Meryl's first win at the Oscars was for this role. She made this role of a young mother with too many responsibilities so endearing.

Columbia Pictures

Meryl's first win at the Oscars was for this role. She made this role of a young mother with too many responsibilities so endearing.

A star is born. — Universal Pictures

A star is born.

Universal Pictures

A star is born.

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