2007 | Meryl wins the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Movie Musical or Comedy for her work in The Devil Wears Prada. Meryl also receives the National Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actress award for her work in both The Devil Wears Prada and in A Prairie Home Companion.

 2006 | Meryl receives the Coolidge Award.

 2005 | Meryl receives her 20th Golden Globe nomination (and is nominated for the BAFTA Award) for her work in The Manchurian Candidate.

 2004 | Meryl wins the Emmy, the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television and the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or MiniSeries for her work in Angels in America. Meryl is named New Dramatists 2004 Career Achievement honoree; and on June 10, 2004 receives AFI's 32nd Life Achievement Award; later that month, she is awarded the Stanislavsky prize for best actress at the Moscow Film Festival.

 2003 | In December 2003, Meryl receives her 19th Golden Globe Award Nomination for her work in Angels in America (the 61st Annual Awards will air January 25, 2004). In November Meryl was honored by The Actor's Fund of America with the Lee Strasberg Artistic Achievement Award. This year Meryl was nominated for her 13th Academy Award (BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Adaptation); received two BAFTA nominations (PERFORMANCE BY ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE: {The} Hours and PERFORMANCE BY ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Adaptation); and Meryl won the GOLDEN GLOBE FOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS for her role as Susan Orlean in Adaptation. Meryl, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore are awarded the Silver Berlin Bear for BEST ACTRESS for their performances in {The} Hours; Meryl is named More Magazine's ALPHA Woman of the Year; and Meryl received an honorary Cesar (France's answer to the Academy Award) in February.

 2002 | Meryl receives two Golden Globe nominations (BEST ACTRESS: {The} Hours and BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Adaptation); Meryl receives Premiere Magazine's ICON Woman of the Year Award; and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award (Outstanding Actress in a Play) for The Seagull.

 2000 | Meryl was nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award (her 12th Oscar nomination) and also received a nomination for the Golden Globe for her portrayal of Roberta Guaspari in Music of the Heart; and France honors Meryl with the much coveted medal of Officier in the Ordre des Arts et Des Lettres (the insigna of the Order of Arts and Letters) in March.

 1999 | Meryl was nominated for the Best Actress IFTA (Irish Film & Television Academy) Award for Dancing at Lughnasa (11/99); received the Matrix Award (Winner), IFP's Gotham Award for Lifetime Achievement (Winner), and for her incredible performance as Kate Gulden in One True Thing, Meryl was nominated for her 11th Academy Award, the People's Choice Favorite Motion Picture Actress Award, the Screen Actors' Guild and the Golden Globe Best Actress Awards. Meryl also won the Berlinale Camera Award in February.

 1998 | Meryl receives her Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 9/16/98; was honored with "The Silver Medallion" at The Telluride Film Festival; received the first Bette Davis Lifetime Achievement Award; and was honored as the 1998 Women in Film Crystal Awards. Meryl also received an Emmy and a Golden Globe nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special for her work in "...First Do No Harm," and was nominated for the People's Choice Award.

 1997 | Meryl received the Dartmouth Film Society Award.

 1996 | Meryl was nominated for a Golden Globe (Best Actress, Drama) for her role as Lee in Marvin's Room; and nominated for her 10th Academy Award for Best Actress, received a Golden Globe nomination (Best Actress, Drama), and was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award (Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role) for her stunning role as Francesca in Bridges of Madison County.

 1995 | For her role as Gail in The River Wild, Meryl was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Awards (Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role) and the Golden Globe.

 1994 | Meryl is awarded The Helen Caldicott Leadership Award from Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND); On September 25, 1994, Meryl was honored with a place in the Forecourt of the Stars in front of Grauman's (now Mann's) Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

 1993 | Meryl was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress (Musical/Comedy) for her role as Madeline Ashton in Death Becomes Her.

 1991 | Meryl received her 9th Academy Award nomination (Best Actress), and was also nominated for the Golden Globe (Best Actress, Musical/Comedy) for her role in Postcards from the Edge. Her performance of "I'm Checkin' Out" was also nominated for Best Song.

 1990 | Meryl won the American Comedy Award for Best Actress for Postcards from the Edge, and was nominated for the Golden Globe (Best Actress, Musical/Comedy) for She-Devil.

 1989 | Meryl was nominated for both the Academy Award and Golden Globe (for Best Actress in a Drama) for A Cry in the Dark. Meryl's handprint in set in ceramic tile at the Palais des Festivals, home of the Festival International du Film every May in Cannes, France.

 1988 | Meryl was nominated again for an Academy Award (Best Actress) for her role in Ironweed; and was awarded the following awards for her role in A Cry in the Dark: Cannes (Best Actress), New York Film Critics Award, and Australian Film Award for Best Actress.

 1987 | Meryl was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama for Out of Africa.

 1986 | Meryl won the David Di Donatello Award for Best Actress (the Italian Academy Award) for Falling in Love, and won the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Actress for Out of Africa.

 1984 | Meryl was nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award and received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, Drama for her performance in Silkwood.

 1983 | Meryl received the Outstanding Mother of the Year Award, she won her second Academy Award (Best Actress) and the Golden Globe Award (Best Actress, Drama) for her stunning performance as Sophie Zawistowska in Alan J. Pakula's Sophie's Choice. (Introduced by Sylvester Stallone as "Marvelous Meryl Streep.")

 1982 | For her first starring role (in The French Lieutenant's Woman), Meryl was nominated for the Academy Award (Best Actress), received the Golden Globe Award (Best Actress in a Drama), and won the British Film Academy Award for Best Actress. Meryl was also given the New York Film Critics Award, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Actress for Sophie's Choice.

 1980 | Meryl wins her first Academy Award (Best Supporting Actress) and wins the Golden Globe Award (Best Supporting Actress, Drama) for her role as Joanna Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer. Meryl and Alan Alda receive the Hasty Pudding "Man and Woman of the Year" Awards.

 1979 | Meryl receives her first Academy Award nomination (Best Supporting Actress) and is nominated for the Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Golden Globe Award for her performance in The Deer Hunter. She wins the New York Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in both Kramer vs. Kramer and The Seduction of Joe Tynan.

 1978 | The National Society of Film Critics Award Meryl with their Best Supporting Actress Award, as do the Los Angeles Film Critics for her role in The Deer Hunter, and Meryl receives the Emmy Award for Best Actress for Holocaust.

 1976 | Meryl wins the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Theater World Award and is nominated for a Tony for her stage work in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and A Memory of Two Mondays, and wins the OBIE Award for Alice in Concert.