Every award Meryl Streep has won during her incredible career

June 22, 2021

<strong><a href="/tags/0/meryl-streep">Meryl Streep</a></strong> is a living legend. The extraordinary actress, who turned 72 on June 22, has won more Golden Globes than anyone, and has also received the most Oscar nominations for an actress, having been nominated 21 times and winning three.
<p>Meryl has also garnered a stunning number of awards from film critics associations and film festivals throughout her career, and <strong><a href="/tags/0/tiff">TIFF</a></strong> named her the inaugural recipient of the TIFF Tribute Actor Award back in 2019.
<p>It's pretty hard to put Meryl's achievements into perspective, but we tried to with this gallery, where we round up all the awards she's received throughout her career. It really will make your jaw drop.
<p><strong>Click through the gallery (or keep reading if you're on mobile) to see just how many awards Meryl has won. "Stunning" really isn't even the right word. There simply isn't anyone else out there like her.</strong>
<p>Photo: © Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Netflix

Meryl Streep is a living legend. The extraordinary actress, who turned 72 on June 22, has won more Golden Globes than anyone, and has also received the most Oscar nominations for an actress, having been nominated 21 times and winning three.

Meryl has also garnered a stunning number of awards from film critics associations and film festivals throughout her career, and TIFF named her the inaugural recipient of the TIFF Tribute Actor Award back in 2019.

It's pretty hard to put Meryl's achievements into perspective, but we tried to with this gallery, where we round up all the awards she's received throughout her career. It really will make your jaw drop.

Click through the gallery (or keep reading if you're on mobile) to see just how many awards Meryl has won. "Stunning" really isn't even the right word. There simply isn't anyone else out there like her.

Photo: © Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Netflix

<h2><i>The Deer Hunter</i></h2>
<p>Early in her career, <strong><a href="/tags/0/meryl-streep">Meryl</a></strong> was already being recognized for her acting prowess. She took home this award for her role in <i>The Deer Hunter</i> alongside <strong><a href="/tags/0/robert-de-niro">Robert De Niro</a></strong> and <strong><a href="/tags/0/christopher-walken">Christopher Walken</a></strong>.
<p>Prior to this, Meryl had won two other awards: She received a 1976 Outer Critics Choice Award for her Outstanding Performances in <i>A Memory of Two Mondays</i> and <i>27 Wagons Full of Cotton</i> and was given a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debuts for her role in <i>Secret Service</i>.
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<h2>Emmy Awards, 1978</h2>
<p>The same year, Meryl was recognized for her role in the TV series <i>Holocaust</i>, winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Television Movie.
<p>Photo: © National Broadcasting Company/Getty Images

<h2>Los Angeles Film Critics Association, 1979</h2>
<p>The next year, Meryl received a Best Supporting Actress award from the LAFCA for her roles in <i>Kramer v Kramer</i> (pictured), <i>Manhattan</i> and <i>The Seduction of Joe Tynan</i>.
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<h2>National Board of Review and National Society of Film Critics, 1979</h2>
<p>The two bodies listed above also gave her Best Supporting Actress awards for her roles in the same three films...
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<h2>New York Film Critics Circle, 1979</h2>
<p>This body honoured her work in <i>Kramer vs Kramer</i> (pictured) and <i>The Seduction of Joe Tynan</i> with another Best Supporting Actress award th same year.
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<h2>Academy Awards, 1980</h2>
<p>Meryl won her very first Oscar the next year for her work in <i>Kramer vs. Kramer</i>. Dustin took home an award, too, for Best Actor!
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<h2>American Movie Awards, 1980</h2>
<p>Meryl's work on <i>The Deer Hunter</i> garnered her yet another Best Supporting Actress award the same year.
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<h2>Golden Globe Awards, 1980</h2>
<p><I>Kramer vs. Kramer</i> also earned Meryl her first Golden Globe the same year.
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<h2>Hasty Pudding Theatricals, 1980</h2>
<p>The Pudding is a theatre society at Harvard that's known for its crossdressing musicals, and it counts several former US presidents among its members, including both Roosevelts and both Adamses. It honoured Meryl with its Woman of the Year award.
<p>Photo: © Tom Wargacki/WireImage

<h2>Los Angeles Film Critics Association, 1981</h2>
<p>Meryl was next given a Best Actress award for her work in <i>The French Lieutenant's Woman</i> the next year.
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<h2>Obie Awards, 1981</h2>
<p>Meryl received a special award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress for her work in <i>Alice in Concert</i>, a musical version of <i>Alice in Wonderland</i>.
<p>Photo: © Evening Standard/Getty Images

<h2>Boston Society of Film Critics, 1982</h2>
<p>Meryl was awarded a Best Actress prize for her role in <i>Sophie's Choice</i>.
<p>Photo: © Tom Wargacki/WireImage

<h2>British Academy Film Awards, 1982</h2>
<p><I>The French Lieutenant's Woman</i> also garnered Meryl her first BAFTA.
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<h2>Golden Globe Awards, 1982</h2>
<p><I>The French Lieutenant's Woman</i> also garnered Meryl her second Golden Globe, this time for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.
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<h2>Academy Awards, 1983</h2>
<p>Meryl won her second Oscar for <i>Sophie's Choice</i>, taking home a statue for Best Actress.
<p>Meryl's incredible performance in the film also garnered her Best Actress awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, National Board of Review, National Society of Film Critics and New York Film Critics Circle.
<p>She also picked up her third Golden Globe for her performance in the film, and was also honoured with the Muse Award from New York Women in Film & Television the same year.
<p>Photo: © Barry King/WireImage

<h2>People's Choice Awards, 1984</h2>
<p>Meryl was named Favorite Motion Picture Supporting Actress in the annual awards gala, which is decided by members of the public and fans.
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<h2>Los Angeles Film Critics Association, 1985</h2>
<p>Meryl received another Best Actress from this body for her work in <i>Out of Africa</i>.
<p>The same year, she took home an Italian cinema academy award for Best Foreign Actress for her work in <i>Falling in Love</i>.
<p>She was also named Favorite Motion Picture Supporting Actress in that year's People's Choice Awards.
<p>She received an Italian film academy award for Best Foreign Actress the next year for her work on <i>Out of Africa</i>.
<p>Photo: © Hemdale/Getty Images

<h2>Multiple awards, 1986</h2>
<p>Meryl was named Favorite Motion Picture Supporting Actress for the third year in a row at the People's Choice Awards, at which she also won for Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer.
<p>She also picked up a Best Actress award for her work in <i>Heartburn</i> at that year's Valladolid International Film Festival.
<p>Photo: © Barry King/WireImage

<h2>People's Choice Awards, 1987</h2>
<p>The public (rightly) continued to love Meryl, who on again that year for Favorite Motion Picture Actress, partly for her work on <i>Ironweed</i> (pictured).
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<h2>New York Film Critics Circle, 1988</h2>
<p>Meryl was awarded a Best Actress award for her work on <i>A Cry in the Dark</i>.
<p>The next year, the film earned her a Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival.
<p>Photo: © Cannon Entertainment/Getty Images

<h2>AACTA Awards, 1989</h2>
<p>Meryl was next awarded a Best Actress in a Leading Role award for her work in <i>Evil Angels</i>.
<p>She was also named Favorite Actress in a Dramatic Motion Picture at the People's Choice Awards the next year.
<p>Photo: © Photoshot/Getty Images

<h2>People's Choice Awards, 1990</h2>
<p>The people loved Meryl! She took home two awards that year for World-Favorite Motion Picture Actress and Favorite Motion Picture Actress.
<p>Photo: © Keystone/Getty Images

<h2>American Comedy Awards, 1991</h2>
<p>Meryl's work in <i>Postcards from the Edge</i> saw her take home an award for Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture.
<p>Photo: © Columbia Pictures/Getty Images

<h2>Telluride Film Festival, 1998</h2>
<p>Meryl went awardless for a few years, but picked up a Silver Medallion at that year's festival, and also received a Crystal Award from Women in Film and Television International the same year.
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<h2>Berlin International Film Festival, 1999</h2>
<p>Meryl won the Berlinale Camera the same year she also took home a George Eastman Award from the George Eastman Museum. She also won a career tribute from the Gotham Awards.
<p>Photo: © Robin Platzer/Twin Images/Online USA

<h2>Multiple awards, 2002</h2>
<p>Meryl’s work on <i>Adaptation</i> garnered her a Chicago Film Critics Association award and Florida Film Critics Circle award for Best Supporting Actress, along with an AARP Movie’s For Grown-Ups award for Best Actress. The also won a Best Supporting Actress Gold Derby Award the next year for her work on the film.
<p>Photo: © Sylvain Gaboury/FilmMagic

<h2>Golden Globe Awards, 2003</h2>
<p>Meryl's work on <i>Adaptation</i> won her her fourth Golden Globe Award, this time for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture.
<p>Photo: © SGranitz/WireImage

<h2>César Awards, 2003</h2>
<p>Meryl received the Honourary César that year from the French film academy.
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<h2>Gold Derby Awards, 2003</h2>
<p>Meryl and her castmates of <i>The Hours</i> all received a Best Ensemble Cast award.
<p>Photo: © Robert Mora/Getty Images

<h2>Outfest, 2003</h2>
<p>Los Angeles's LGBTQ film festival awarded Meryl with a Screen Idol prize for her work on <i>The Hours</i>, which was a watershed film for the LGBTQ community at the time.
<p>Photo: © SGranitz/WireImage

<h2>American Film Institute, 2004</h2>
<p>Meryl was given a Lifetime Achievement Award from the film body that year.
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<h2>Golden Globe Awards, 2004</h2>
<p>Meryl took home her fifth Golden Globe for her work on <i>Angels in America</i>, a TV series for HBO based on the <strong>Tony Kushner</strong> play of the same name.
<p>She also received a Stanislavsky Award for achievements in acting throughout a career at the Moscow International Film Festival that same year.
<p>Photo: © SGranitz/WireImage

<h2>Emmy Awards, 2004</h2>
<p>Meryl's work on <i>Angels in America</i> also won her her second Emmy Award, this time for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Television Movie.
<p>Photo: © Albert L. Ortega/WireImage

<h2>Screen Actors Guild Awards, 2004</h2>
<p><I>Angels in America</i> also helped Meryl pick up an award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Mini-Series or Television Movie.
<p>She also won a Gracie Award for Outstanding Female Lead in a Drama Special for her work on the mini-series and a Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV for her work on it.
<p>Photo: © M. Caulfield/WireImage for Turner

Golden Globe Awards, 2007

Meryl's sixth Golden Globe was for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for The Devil Wears Prada.

The film also garnered her a Best Actress in a Comedic Performance award from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, a Best Supporting Actress award from the National Society of Film Critics, and a Best Comedic Performance award from the Women Film Critics Circle the year before.

She was also named Actress of the Year by the London Film Critics Circle in 2007 and received a Rembrandt Award for Best Foreign Actress that same year. It also won her a Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Satellite Award.

She also picked up an award for Best Foreign Actress from the Russian National Movie Awards for her work on the film along with The Ant Bully and A Prairie Home Companion.

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<h2>Multiple awards, 2008</h2>
<p>Meryl was part of the ensemble cast of <i>Doubt</i>, which won a Houston Film Critics Society award that year along with one from the National Board of Review. The cast also received a Best Ensemble Cast award from the Houston Film Critics Society and a Best Acting by an Ensemble award from the National Board of Review the same year.
<p>Photo: © Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for AFI

<h2>National Movie Awards, 2008</h2>
<p><i>Mamma Mia!</i> got Meryl a Best Performance – Female award that year.
<p>The next year, she was also named Best International Actress for her performance in the film by the Irish Film & Television Academy Awards.
<p>The film also saw her win a People's Choice Award for Favorite Song from a Soundtrack, along with a Rembrandt Award for Best Foreign Actress and a Russian Movie Awards prize for Best Foreign Actress the next year.
<p>Photo: © Jeff Spicer/Getty Images

<h2>Donostia Award, 2008</h2>
<p>Meryl was given the lifetime achievement award at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
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Multiple awards, 2009

Meryl and Alec Baldwin's depiction of an intimate moment between two older adults in Its Complicated won them an award from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. She also received an award for Actress Defying Age and Ageism from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists for her work on that film and Julie & Julia.

The latter movie got her a Best Actress award from the Boston Society of Film Critics the same year, and her work on Doubt saw her pick up a Best Actress award from the Critics' Choice Movie Awards. She was also named Best Actress for Doubt at the Gold Derby Awards, and the cast took home at Best Ensemble Cast award. She also won a trophy for TV Movie/Mini Actress of the Decade for her work on Angels in America.

The cast of It's Complicated also took home a Best Acting by an Ensemble award from the National Board of Review, and the New York Film Critics Circle named her Best Actress for her work on Julie & Julia, as did New York Film Critics Online.

At the Rome Film Festival, she took home the Golden Marc'Aurelio Acting Award for her work on the film, along with a Best Actress from the San Francisco Film Critics Circle and a Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Satellite Award. She also won a Best Comedic Actress award from the Women Film Critics Circle.

The next year, she won a Best Grown-Up Love Story award for her work on It's Complicated with Alec.

<h2>Goldene Kamera Awards, 2009</h2>
<p>The German film academy named Meryl the best international actress that year.
<p>Photo: © Franziska Krug/Getty Images

<h2>Screen Actors Guild Awards, 2009</h2>
<p>Meryl's work on <i>Doubt</i> saw her win her second Screen Actors Guild Award. She took home the trophy for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role.
<p>Photo: © Steve Granitz/WireImage

<h2>Multiple awards, 2010</h2>
<p>Meryl won a Critics Choice Movie Award for her work on <i>Julie & Julia</i>. She also became an honourary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was named Best Performer of the Decade at the Gold Derby Awards and Best Actress for <i>Julie & Julia</i>. She was also named Best International Actress at the Irish Film & Television Academy Awards.

<h2>Golden Globe Awards, 2010</h2>
<p>Meryl took home her seventh Golden Globe for her work on <i>Julie & Julia</i>.
<p>Photo: © Steve Granitz/WireImage

<h2>BAFTAs, 2012</h2>
<p>The British Academy of Film Awards and Television Arts named Meryl Best Actress for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in <i>The Iron Lady</i>.
<p>Photo: © Chris Jackson/Getty Images

<h2>Academy Awards, 2012</h2>
<p>Meryl looked like the living embodiment of the Oscar when she won Best Actress for <i>The Iron Lady</i>.
<p>Photo: © Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage

<h2>Golden Globe Awards, 2012</h2>
<p><I>The Iron Lady</i> garnered Meryl her eighth Golden Globe, and gave her a Guniness World Record for most Golden Globes and Most Golden Globes Won by an Actress.
<p>Photo: © Kevin Winter/Getty Images

<h2>Multiple awards, 2011 and 2012</h2>
<p>Meryl’s performance in <i>The Iron Lady</i> also saw her win Best Actress awards from the New York Film Critics Circle and New York Film Critics Online in 2011, along with Best Actress awards from the AACTA International Awards, Gold Derby Awards and the London Film Critics Circle. She and Jim Broadbent also won a Best Grown-Up Love Story award from the AARP’s Movies for Grown-Ups Awards, she received a Film Performance of the Year award for her role in the movie from the Dorian Awards and won an Honorary Golden Bear from the Berlin International Film Festival.
<p>In 2013, she also won a Best Foreign Actress from the Rembrandt Awards for her role.
<p>Photo: © Elisabetta Villa/Getty Images

<h2>Multiple awards, 2013</h2>
<p>For her work on <I>August: Osage County</i>, Meryl was named Best Actress by the Capri Hollywood International Film Festival. The cast of that movie also won Capri Hollywood International Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards.
<p>Meryl was also named Favorite Movie Icon at the People's Choice Awards that year and also won a Best Foreign Actress Rembrandt Award for her work on <i>The Iron Lady</i>.
<p>Photo: © Wireimage

<h2>Multiple awards, 2014</h2>
<p>Meryl was awarded a Monte Cristo Award by the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center for her achievements in film (pictured) and received a Fellowship Award from the Giffoni Film Festival. She also took home an Icon Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and was part of the cast of <i>Into the Woods</i>, which won an award at the Satellite Awards. She was also part of the cast of <i>The Homesman</i>, which won a Women Film Critics Circle award.
<p>Photo: © Walter McBride, WireImage

<h2>MTV Movie Awards, 2015</h2>
<p>Meryl was named Best Villain for her role in <i>Into the Woods</i>.
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<h2>Multiple awards, 2016</h2>
<p>Meryl was part of the cast of <i>Suffragette</i>, which won a Woman's Work/Best Ensemble award from the Women Film Critics Circle. She was also named Best Actress in a Comedy at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards.
<p>Photo: © Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/WireImage

<h2>Golden Globe Awards, 2017</h2>
<p>Meryl won the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award that year, and also set a Guinness World Record for the most Golden Globe nominations ever by an actress.
<p>Photo: © Steve Granitz/WireImage

<h2>Multiple awards, 2017</h2>
<p>Meryl took home a Distinguished Collaborator Award from the Costume Designers Guild, a Best Ensemble award from the Detroit Film Critics Society for <i>The Post</i> and a Best Actress award from the National Board of Review for the same film. She also won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator for <i>Five Came Back</i>.
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