Meryl Streep has broken her own record as the actress with the most Oscar nominations ever, as on Tuesday she received her 21st Academy Awards nomination for Steven Spielberg’s The Post.
The 68-year-old is miles ahead of anyone else when it comes to Oscar nominations and takes the lead by nine over Katharine Hepburn and Jack Nicholson, who both come in second place with a dozen each.
Despite her impressive number of nominations though, the actress has surprisingly only won three.
Her first Academy Award nomination was all the way back in 1978 for Best Supporting Actress in The Deer Hunter, but she was pipped to the post by Dame Maggie Smith.
However, she then went onto win her first award a year later for Kramer vs. Kramer where she starred opposite Dustin Hoffman.
In 1982 she won Best Actress for Sophie’s Choice, and her third Oscar came 29 years later in 2011 where she again took Best Actress for her role in The Iron Lady.
Since then Streep gained another four nominations for August: Osage County, Into The Woods, Florence Foster Jenkins, and now The Post.
This year she will be up against Frances McDormand for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird, Margot Robbie in I, Tonya, and Sally Hawkins in The Shape Of Water.
If Streep wins this one, she will sit side by side with Katherine Hepburn who is the only actress to win four Oscars.
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Meryl Streep's 21 Oscar nominations
1978: The Deer Hunter Nominated
1979: Kramer vs. Kramer Won
1981: The French Lieutenant’s Woman Nominated
1982: Sophie’s Choice Won
1983: Silkwood Nominated
1985: Out of Africa Nominated
1987: Ironweed Nominated
1988: A Cry in the Dark Nominated
1990: Postcards from the Edge Nominated
1995: The Bridges of Madison County Nominated
1998: One True Thing Nominated
1999: Music of the Heart Nominated
2002: Adaptation Nominated
2006: The Devil Wears Prada Nominated
2008: Doubt Nominated
2009: Julie & Julia Nominated
2011: The Iron Lady Won
2013: August: Osage County Nominated
2014: Into the Woods Nominated
2016: Florence Foster Jenkins Nominated
2017: The Post Pending
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