--- description: Meryl Streep is the most nominated actor in the history of the Academy Awards, title: See How Meryl Streep Reacted to Every One of Her 19 Oscar Nominations image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25a8fb12ded7a90f/6988bb9fbc6cfc857a3e043e/meryl-streep-oscar-noms.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # See How Meryl Streep Reacted to Every One of Her 19 Oscar Nominations by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Feb 24, 2017 3:13 PM CUT  Actress Meryl Streep accepts the Best Actress Award for 'The Iron Lady' onstage during the 84th Annual Academy Awards held at the Hollywood & Highland Center on February 26, 2012 in Hollywood, California. Actress Meryl Streep accepts the Best Actress Award for 'The Iron Lady' onstage during the 84th Annual Academy Awards held at the Hollywood & Highland Center on February 26, 2012 in Hollywood, California.Kevin Winter—Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Feb 24, 2017 3:13 PM CUT Meryl Streep is the most nominated actor in the history of the [Academy Awards](http://time.com/4673701/oscars-2017-what-to-know/ "undefined"), making history this year with her 20th nomination for her performance in _Florence Foster Jenkins_. Streep has racked up a number of [Oscar nods](http://time.com/4677356/oscars-2017-la-la-land-predictions/ "undefined") since 1979, when she was first nominated for her role in _The Deer Hunter_. Although she lost that year to Maggie Smith, Streep came back the next year and won Best Supporting Actress for her performance in _Kramer vs. Kramer_. By 2012, when she won the Oscar for Best Actress for playing Margaret Thatcher in _The Iron Lady_, Streep had been nominated 17 times. “When they called my name I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, ‘Oh no. Oh, come on. Why? Her. Again,’ you know?” Streep said while accepting the award. “But, whatever.” If Streep [wins](http://time.com/4674774/oscars-2017-predictions/ "undefined") for _Florence Foster Jenkins_, she will tie Katharine Hepburn for most acting awards ever, with four. Check out Streep’s nominations throughout the years above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4680719/oscars-meryl-streep-nominations/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4680719/oscars-meryl-streep-nominations/"},"headline":"See How Meryl Streep Reacted to Every One of Her 19 Oscar Nominations","datePublished":"2017-02-24T15:13:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:29:29.229Z","description":"Meryl Streep is the most nominated actor in the history of the Academy Awards","url":"https://time.com/4680719/oscars-meryl-streep-nominations/","keywords":["movies","onetime","Oscars 2017"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25a8fb12ded7a90f/6988bb9fbc6cfc857a3e043e/meryl-streep-oscar-noms.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25a8fb12ded7a90f/6988bb9fbc6cfc857a3e043e/meryl-streep-oscar-noms.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"84th Annual Academy Awards - Show","caption":"84th Annual Academy Awards - Show","creditText":"Kevin Winter—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4680719/oscars-meryl-streep-nominations/","name":"See How Meryl Streep Reacted to Every One of Her 19 Oscar Nominations"}}]}] ```