How many Oscars would you give Meryl Streep?

Well, I think she was the best of the nominees 5 times:

- 1978, The Deer Hunter
- 1979, Kramer vs. Kramer
- 1982, Sophie's Choice
- 1995, The Bridges of Madison County
- 2008, Doubt

But I wouldn't give her 5 Oscars if I had that power of all powers. I'd make it three: 1979, 1982 and 1995.

I think about 30.

I think just Sophie's Choice and even then I feel like I'm forgetting a performance I'd give the win over her.

3 for Sophie's Choice, Adaptation, and Doubt.

Let's get a steel cage match organized

I don't know tbh since awards and lists aren't my thing really - but just wanted to mention that I do love that my 2 favorite actresses did beast mode level work in te 80s - Huppert and Streep - and they could have a lot of great battles that would cause my head to explode....like how are you going to pick between A Cry in the Dark and Story of Women .........at least DePac had the decency not to really "face off" against each other in the 70s ffs

Kramer vs Kramer
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Still of the Night (TIE)
Sophie’s Choice (TIE)
Silkwood
Out of Africa
A Cry in the Dark
She-Devil
Postcards from the Edge
Defending Your Life
Death Becomes Her
The River Wild (my all time win)
Before and After
One True Thing
Music of the Heaer
AI
Adaptation (TIE)
The Hours (TIE)
Lemony Snicket’s (my all time win)
Prime
The Devik Wears Prada (tied for my all time win)
Mamma Mia (TIE)
Doubt (TIE)
It’s Complicated (TIE)
Julie & Julia (TIE) (also in a 3 way tie for my all time win)
The Iron Lady
Hope Springs
August
The Homesman (TIE)
Into the Woods (TIE)
Ricki and the Flash
Florence Foster Jenkins (my all time runner up)
The Post
Mamma Mia HWGA
The Laundromat
Little Women
The Prom (TIE)
Let Them all talk (TIE)
Don’t Look Up

So 39 actually

Is that a parallel universe where she actually gives 39 good performances?

That year has got to be one of the strongest the category has ever seen. (Going by US release dates - i.e. no Adjani or Huppert here.) My lineup would be somewhere here... Don't ask me how to narrow it down. 

Glenn Close, Dangerous Liaisons
Judy Davis, High Tide
Melanie Griffith, Working Girl
Barbara Hershey, A World Apart
Amy Irving, Crossing Delancey 
Christine Lahti, Running on Empty
Shirley MacLaine, Madame Sousatzka
Carmen Maura, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Michelle Pfeiffer, Married to the Mob
Gena Rowlands, Another Woman
Susan Sarandon, Bull Durham
Meryl Streep, A Cry in the Dark

I've seen Foster and Weaver, but I haven't seen Jamie Lee Curtis.

1....Out of Africa.


Weak as hell year is the only reason why.


Heres the complete rundown of her most famous years and categories.



1978... Urbanpatrician pick: Maggie Smith for California Suite

1979... Urbanpatrician pick: Mariel Hemingway for Manhattan

1981... Urbanpatrician pick: Diane Keaton - Reds

1982.... Urbanpatrician pick: Jessica Lange - Frances

1983....Urbanpatrician pick: Isabelle Adjani - One Deadly Summer

1985... Urbanpatrician pick: Meryl Streep - Plenty or Out of Africa.

She can take that weak as shit year. Easily one of my least favorite wins I've given out, tho.


1987... Urbanpatrician pick: Barbra Streisand - Nuts


1988... Urbanpatrician pick: Sigourney Weaver - Gorillas in the Mist or Catherine Denueve - Strange Place for an Encounter


1992... Urbanpatrician pick: Tilda Swinton - Orlando


1995: Urbanpatrician pick: Vanessa Paradis - Elisa


2002: Urbanpatrician pick: Samantha Morton - Minority Report for supporting

Julianne Moore - Far From Heaven leading


2003: Urbanpatrician pick: Anais Demoustier - Time of the Wolf


2006: Urbanpatrician pick: Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal

2008: Urbanpatrician pick: Tilda Swinton - Julia

2017: Urbanpatrician pick: Isabelle Huppert - Claire's Camera.



So...basically 1. Would be 0 if 1985 resembled a real year. But even then I might switch to Sandrine Bonnaire for Vagabond. Not my favorite of her works but she's not far off from Streep.