Meryl Streep wins the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts

The American actress Meryl Streep, the interpreter who has been nominated for the Oscar and the Golden Globe the most times in history, was awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts 2023 this Wednesday.

An emblematic and versatile actress, also recognized for her social activism, humanitarian, feminist and environmentalist, has been awarded three Oscars and has nine Golden Globes, as well as two Baftas from the British Academy.

She is considered a grande dame Hollywood, Streep (1949, Basking Ridge, New Jersey) He started his film career in the seventies of the last century, and in his more than sixty films he embodied some of the most memorable characters in the history of the seventh art.

Three the Oscars which he received – out of a total of 21 nominations – were for “Kramer vs. Kramer” (1979), “Sophie’s Decision” (1982) and “The Iron Lady” (2011), and he also has nine Golden Globes, out of a total of 32 nominations, plus two British Academy Baftas.

jury of Princess of Art Award he praised the actress’ “honesty and responsibility” in choosing her works “in the service of inspired and exemplary narratives”, and “for dignifying the art of interpretation and ensuring that ethics and coherence transcend her work, with the virtue of emphasizing that human beings, especially women, must win and stand out from your uniqueness, from your diversity.”

The candidacy of Streep, the second actress to be awarded Princess of Art after Nuria Espert in 2016 and the second film performer, if you count his professional colleagues Woody Allen (2002), Vittorio Gassmann (1997) and Fernando Fernán-Gómez (1995), was proposed by the director Pedro Almodóvar, who was awarded the same award in 2006.

Streep (1949, New Jersey) started her film career in the seventies and in her more than sixty films she embodied some of the most memorable characters in the history of the seventh art.

Beginnings in the theater

Descendant of a family of Sephardic Jews, STrep is the daughter of a graphic designer and top executive and studied music, drama and opera at Yale University.

After she was discovered at the Yale School of Drama – where she enjoyed a three-year scholarship – by theater promoter Joe Papp for his Public Theater in New York, critically acclaimed Streep has presented works by Shakespeare, Arthur Millar and Tennessee Williams.

In 1977, director Fred Zinnemann offered her a small role in the film “Julia”, which marked her film debut, but her character “Inge Weis” in the TV series “Holocaust” (1978) marked her world launch and for which she won the first Emmy Award for Best Actress.

In the same year, she starred opposite Robert de Niro in Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter, which earned her the American Critics Award and her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Two Oscars in just three years

After their collaboration in “Manhattan”, by Woody Allen (1979)won her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for “Kramer vs. Kramer” (1979), a marital drama in which she co-starred with Dustin Hoffman.

His first major role was in “The French Lieutenant” (1981), for which she won a BAFTA, a Golden Globe for Best Actress and her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

This film was followed by “Sophie’s Choice” (1982), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama.

a series of successes and awards

The best actress of the eighties according to film critics, this decade left behind many of her best performances: “Silkwood” (1983), a role for which she was nominated for an Oscar; “Out of Africa” ​​​​​​(1985), by Sydney Pollack, together with Robert Redford and which brought him another Oscar nomination; “Plenty” (1985) by Fred Schepisi or “Ironweed” (1987) with Jack Nickolson, a superb performance for which she was again nominated for an Oscar.

His 1990s filmography includes “Postcards from the edge” (1990), for which he earned another Academy Award nomination; “House of Ghosts” (1993), based on the novel by Isabel Allende, or the romantic “The Bridges of Madison County” (1995) directed and co-starred with Clint Eastwood, which earned him another Oscar nomination. The decade ended with two more nominations for “One True Thing” (1998) and “Music of the Heart” (1999).

For “The Hours” (2002) she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress, which she shared with colleagues Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore, and for “Adaptation” (2002) she won her fourth Golden Globe (Best Supporting Actress) and a new Oscar nomination in the same category.

In 2004, she won her fifth Golden Globe (Best Actress in a Series) for “Angels in America,” and three years later, for her iconic role as a ruthless fashion editor in “The Devil Wears Prada,” she won her sixth Golden Globe (Best Actress). comedy actress), as well as a new Oscar nomination.

change record

Streep surprised in 2008 “Mama Mia!” changing the register, singing and dancing non-stop and triumphing in the film version over the stage musical.

In addition, she masterfully became the former British Prime Minister Margaret Tachert in “The Iron Lady” (2011), a role for which she won many awards, such as the New York Film Critics Circle for Best Actress, the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and her third Oscar, for Best Actress.

recognized activist

Cecil B. DeMille Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award received at the gala Golden Globes 2017, The actress then accused President Donald Trump, without mentioning him, of treating “Hollywood, the press and foreigners” badly.

Translator, social work activist, humanitarians, feminists and environmentalists, He was a spokesman for the Natural Resources Defense Council.