Meryl Streep has now racked up 19 Oscar nominations. Peter Bradshaw looks back over them, sifting the monster Meryls from the mediocre and identifying when she’s just going through the Meryl motions. All performances are rated out of five Meryls
Looking down the list of Meryl Streep’s Oscar nominated performances is to be awed by a career which has put the virtues of intensely observed and technically accomplished character acting at an absolute premium: the arc of her career is not a simplistic morph from sexy romantic lead to cantankerous old dame — although in some ways it is always a shock to revisit her (un-Oscared) performance in Woody Allen’s Manhattan, and be reminded of just how beautiful a young woman she was. Hardcore Streep fans might also fantasise about getting the Academy somehow to recognise her improvised mini-performance on BBC News, in the UK to promote The Iron Lady,...
Looking down the list of Meryl Streep’s Oscar nominated performances is to be awed by a career which has put the virtues of intensely observed and technically accomplished character acting at an absolute premium: the arc of her career is not a simplistic morph from sexy romantic lead to cantankerous old dame — although in some ways it is always a shock to revisit her (un-Oscared) performance in Woody Allen’s Manhattan, and be reminded of just how beautiful a young woman she was. Hardcore Streep fans might also fantasise about getting the Academy somehow to recognise her improvised mini-performance on BBC News, in the UK to promote The Iron Lady,...
- 1/16/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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