Entertainment Movies A Look Back at All of Meryl Streep's Golden Globe Nominations and Wins The actress broke her own record in 2023 as the most-nominated actor in Golden Globes history By Diana Pearl Diana Pearl Diana Pearl is a former writer and reporter at PEOPLE. She left PEOPLE in 2018. People Editorial Guidelines and Alexandra Schonfeld Alexandra Schonfeld Alexandra Schonfeld is a features writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since April 2022. Her work previously appeared in Newsweek. People Editorial Guidelines Updated on January 5, 2024 03:35PM EST Meryl Streep. Photo: Universal/courtesy Everett Collection (2); 20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection Everyone talks about Meryl Streep’s record-setting number of Academy Award nominations, but perhaps even more impressive is the number of Golden Globe Award nominations she’s received: 33, as of this year, with her latest nod for her role on Only Murders in the Building. And on top of her 33 nominations for her specific roles, Streep took home the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2017 for "outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment" (previous recipients include Denzel Washington, Martin Scorsese, Robin Williams and Audrey Hepburn — to name a few). In honor of Streep’s incredible feat — only Jack Lemmon has even come close, with 22 nominations (and a Cecil. B. DeMille Award of his own) — we’re looking back at the roles that got her the accolades. 1979: The Deer Hunter NOMINATED Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro in 'The Deer Hunter'. Universal/Courtesy Everett Collection Streep’s first Golden Globe nomination was also her first for the Academy Awards. Though she lost out on both prizes for her turn as the girlfriend of a fallen soldier in Vietnam, the role helped establish Streep as one to watch in the awards show game. 1980: Kramer vs. Kramer WON One to watch, no more: Streep catapulted to Golden Globe success when she snagged the best supporting actress in a drama trophy for Kramer vs. Kramer, in which she played a woman who leaves her husband and is in the throes of divorce. While the film won best picture that year, there was lots of drama behind the scenes between the lead actors. 1982: The French Lieutenant’s Woman WON Little did she know in ’80, but Kramer vs. Kramer was the start of a Golden Globe-winning streak for Streep. She won best actress in a leading role for The French Lieutenant’s Woman two years later. 1983: Sophie’s Choice WON The next year brought Streep her third Golden Globe win (though she missed the ceremony), her second Oscar and perhaps her most iconic role as Sophie, who must choose which of her children will be killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Stars Who Are Nominated for 2 Awards at the 2024 Golden Globes 1984: Silkwood NOMINATED Though ’84 ended Streep’s winning streak, the nominations kept coming. In Silkwood, she played real-life whistleblower and activist Karen Silkwood. 1986: Out of Africa NOMINATED Robert Redford and Meryl Streep in 'Out of Africa'. Universal/Kobal/Shutterstock The film adaptation of Baroness Karen von Blixen’s memoir about her life in Kenya was the vehicle for Streep’s sixth nomination; she starred opposite Robert Redford. 1988: Ironweed NOMINATED Playing the lover of Jack Nicholson’s character, an unhoused man who abandons his family, Streep nabbed another actress in a leading role nomination in 1988. 1989: A Cry in the Dark NOMINATED For her seventh and final nomination of the 1980s, Streep played the wife of a Seventh-day Adventist pastor who is charged with the murder of her infant daughter — based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain. 1990: She-Devil NOMINATED Streep doesn’t do comedy often, especially in the ’80s, but she was picture-perfect as the antagonist to Roseanne Barr’s crazed woman scorned (and on a mission for revenge). 1991: Postcards from the Edge NOMINATED Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by fellow Hollywood icon Carrie Fisher, Streep tackled the part of an actress with an even-more-famous mother (inspired by Fisher’s own mother, Debbie Reynolds, played in the film by Shirley MacLaine), who is struggling with addiction. 1993: Death Becomes Her NOMINATED Meryl Streep in 'Death Becomes Her'. Mary Evans/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection You can’t stop Streep: She picked up her 11th nomination in ’93 for the musical-comedy-horror hybrid. 1995: The River Wild NOMINATED Even in an action-packed flick, Streep scored. For this rafting adventure gone south, she earned a leading actress nomination. 1996: The Bridges of Madison County NOMINATED Yet another nomination came in ’96, with The Bridges of Madison County, in which she played an Iowa woman who has an affair with a National Geographic photographer. 1997: Marvin’s Room NOMINATED At this point, Streep could expect Golden Globe nominations for practically every year she worked. In ’97, she earned a nomination for Marvin’s Room, in which she starred in alongside Diane Keaton and Leonardo DiCaprio. 1998: …First Do No Harm NOMINATED Streep doesn’t do TV often, but when she does, she (obviously) nails it. In this made-for-TV movie, Streep played a mother who battles her son’s doctor for the chance to try experimental treatments to help his epilepsy. 1999: One True Thing NOMINATED Renee Zellweger and Meryl Streep in 'One True Thing'. Universal/courtesy Everett/Everett Collection Her fourth nomination in a row! In this familial drama, Renée Zellweger played Streep’s daughter as the two work on their relationship while Streep’s character grapples with cancer. All the Stars Competing Against Their Costars at the 2024 Golden Globe Awards 2000: Music of the Heart NOMINATED Streep doesn’t do anything half-heartedly. So when she played violinist Roberta Guaspari in Music of the Heart, she studied the violin for months, even learning to play one of Bach’s concertos for the role. 2003: Adaptation WON In Adaptation, inspired by New Yorker writer Susan Orlean’s article and book The Orchid Thief, Streep played Orlean (but the real-life writer would find little in the movie that resembled the events of her own life). Streep took home the supporting prize for this role. 2003: The Hours NOMINATED That same year, she was also nominated for her role in The Hours, but lost out to costar Nicole Kidman. 2004: Angels in America WON Her second television win came in 2004, for Angels in America, in which she played four different parts, including a male rabbi. Sadly, she only got one trophy for this win. Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. 2005: The Manchurian Candidate NOMINATED The remake of the 1962 film saw Streep as a U.S. Senator whose son is running for vice president. 2007: The Devil Wears Prada WIN Meryl Streep. Moviestore/Shutterstock Streep was chilly perfection as the ice-cold fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly, famously inspired by Vogue‘s editor Anna Wintour, and snagged the prize for lead actress in a comedy or musical. 2009: Doubt NOMINATED As a super-strict nun in Doubt, Streep was utterly convinced of a priest’s sexual misconduct with a boy in their parish. The film also featured Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis, who were all nominated for their roles. 2009: Mamma Mia! NOMINATED And for her other nominated performance of the year, Streep stepped into a completely different character in Mamma Mia! as a fun-loving mom preparing to send her daughter down the aisle while dancing to ABBA songs. 2010: Julie & Julia WON Streep snagged two of the five nominations for actress in a comedy or musical in ’10, for Julie & Julia and It’s Complicated. In the first, she took home the prize for her portrayal of iconic chef Julia Child (and absolutely nailed her one-of-a-kind voice). 2010: It’s Complicated NOMINATED And while she beat herself in the category, the second role saw Streep as a modern woman (with an amazing kitchen, thank you Nancy Meyers) going through a complicated almost-reunion with her ex, Alec Baldwin. 2012: The Iron Lady WON Meryl Streep. Paul Drinkwater/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Awards shows love when actors and actresses play real people (bonus points if they’re still alive!), and Streep’s take on Britain’s first female prime minister was so unforgettable, it won her her first Oscar since 1983, too. 2013: Hope Springs NOMINATED Hope Springs wasn’t an awards bait kind of movie, but with Streep in it, even the Globes couldn’t ignore it. She played a woman in the midst of a week of intense marriage counseling with her husband, played by Tommy Lee Jones. 2014: August: Osage County NOMINATED When you need an over-the-top matriarch in your movie, you call Streep. She played just that (with a whole lot of dysfunction) in the starry film adaption of the Broadway play. 2015: Into the Woods NOMINATED As the witch in Stephen Sondheim’s fairy tale with a twist, Streep nabbed a supporting actress nomination. 2017: Florence Foster Jenkins NOMINATED Her next nomination came for her role as Florence Foster Jenkins, in which she played a wealthy woman with big dreams of singing, but without the perfect pitch (or any pitch, really) to do so. 2017: The Cecil B. DeMille Award WON Meryl Streep. Michael Buckner/Variety/Penske Media via Getty Streep was presented with the special award by her Doubt costar, Viola Davis, and with her statue in hand, used her time on stage to point out that that Hollywood is "just a bunch of people from other places" before calling out then-president-elect Donald Trump — though never mentioning him by name. 2018: The Post NOMINATED In this drama, Streep led an all-star cast as Katharine Graham, the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, The Washington Post. 2020: Big Little Lies NOMINATED As the overly curious mother of deceased abusive husband Perry Wright (Alexander Skarsgard), Streep stirred up trouble with the women of Monterey, California, eventually taking daughter-in-law Celeste (Nicole Kidman) to court over custody of her grandsons. 2024: Only Murders in the Building NOMINATED Streep's most recent nomination was the result of her role on Hulu's Only Murders in the Building as actress and murder suspect Loretta Durkin, whose apartment was sprinkled with Easter eggs from Streep's real-life roles of the past — courtesy of the show's clever production designer, Rich Murray. 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