Meryl Streep's worst Oscar-nominated role?

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Meryl Streep will most like get Oscar nod #20 for “Florence Foster Jenkins.” But which of the previous did she really not deserve?

1.     Supporting Actress: “The Deer Hunter,” 1977

2.     Supporting Actress: “Kramer vs. Kramer,” 1978

3.     Lead Actress: “The French Lieutenant’s Woman,” 1980

4.     Lead Actress: “Sophie’s Choice,” 1981

5.     Lead Actress: “Silkwood,” 1982

6.     Lead Actress: “Out of Africa,” 1984

7.     Lead Actress: “Ironweed,” 1986

8.     Lead Actress: “A Cry in the Dark,” 1987

9.     Lead Actress: “Postcards from the Edge,” 1989

10.  Lead Actress: “The Bridges of Madison County,” 1994

11.  Lead Actress: “One True Thing,” 1997

12.  Lead Actress: “Music of the Heart,” 1998

13.  Supporting Actress: “Adaptation,” 2001

14.  Lead Actress: “The Devil Wears Prada,” 2005

15.  Lead Actress: “Doubt,” 2007

16.  Lead Actress: “Julie & Julia,” 2008

17.  Lead Actress: “The Iron Lady,” 2010

18.  Lead Actress: “August: Osage County,” 2012

19.  Supporting Actress: “Into the Woods,” 2013

wins are in bold.

For me it’s  “Music of the Heart” which could’ve easily been a Lifetime TV movie. Maybe its the movie…or maybe the NSYNC song is what really did it for me.

 

 

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[M: The Original Joined: Aug 5th, 2014 Topics: 61 Posts: 6687 View Predictions]

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Music of the Heart stands out easily as a sore thumb in her nomination count.

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[Philip Joined: Jan 29th, 2012 Topics: 4 Posts: 1497 View Predictions]

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The Iron Lady, Julie and Julia.

She’s in the wrong categories for Devil and August.

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[8CHRIS5 Joined: Apr 19th, 2016 Topics: 3 Posts: 253 View Predictions]

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Philip wrote:

The Iron Lady, Julie and Julia. She’s in the wrong categories for Devil and August.

Are you serious? That’s one of her best. The movie is bad but not the performance.

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[8CHRIS5 Joined: Apr 19th, 2016 Topics: 3 Posts: 253 View Predictions]

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Music of the Heart is her worse.

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[msamandaspears Joined: Jul 26th, 2012 Topics: 44 Posts: 356 View Predictions]

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Stupid Excel Subtracted a year!

1.     Supporting Actress: “The Deer Hunter,” 1978

2.     Supporting Actress: “Kramer vs. Kramer,” 1979

3.     Lead Actress: “The French Lieutenant’s Woman,” 1981

4.     Lead Actress: “Sophie’s Choice,” 1982

5.     Lead Actress: “Silkwood,” 1983

6.     Lead Actress: “Out of Africa,” 1985

7.     Lead Actress: “Ironweed,” 1987

8.     Lead Actress: “A Cry in the Dark,” 1988

9.     Lead Actress: “Postcards from the Edge,” 1990

10.  Lead Actress: “The Bridges of Madison County,” 1995

11.  Lead Actress: “One True Thing,” 1998

12.  Lead Actress: “Music of the Heart,” 1999

13.  Supporting Actress: “Adaptation,” 2002

14.  Lead Actress: “The Devil Wears Prada,” 2006

15.  Lead Actress: “Doubt,” 2008

16.  Lead Actress: “Julie & Julia,” 2009

17.  Lead Actress: “The Iron Lady,” 2011

18.  Lead Actress: “August: Osage County,” 2013

19.  Supporting Actress: “Into the Woods,” 2014

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[Philip Joined: Jan 29th, 2012 Topics: 4 Posts: 1497 View Predictions]

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8CHRIS5 wrote:

Philip wrote:

The Iron Lady, Julie and Julia. She’s in the wrong categories for Devil and August.

Are you serious? That’s one of her best. The movie is bad but not the performance.

To me it is one of her weaker performances. Sophie’s Choice, Silkwood, Kramer, Deer Hunter and many more are vastly superior.

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[Bee Joined: Oct 25th, 2016 Topics: 26 Posts: 5220 View Predictions]

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Philip wrote:

The Iron Lady, Julie and Julia. She’s in the wrong categories for Devil and August.

She’s co-lead for August and literally the backbone of Prada.

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[Bee Joined: Oct 25th, 2016 Topics: 26 Posts: 5220 View Predictions]

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If we start a thread of this, we can do Jack Nicholson too. But her “worst” nom is Music of the Heart and to a lesser extent, Adaptation.

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[Macca Joined: Dec 22nd, 2015 Topics: 10 Posts: 5343 View Predictions]

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A Cry in the Dark, Music of the Heart, One True Thing, August: Osage County, Into the Woods and probably FFJ shouldn’t have been nominated, and I think she could have been better in Ironweed and Doubt.

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[Bee Joined: Oct 25th, 2016 Topics: 26 Posts: 5220 View Predictions]

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One True Thing is so underrated for me…performance wise. I didn’t understand her praise for Adaptation. She was just meh in that. And Music of the Heart, yes she played an ordinary person, but no.

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[Philip Joined: Jan 29th, 2012 Topics: 4 Posts: 1497 View Predictions]

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Bee wrote:

Philip wrote:

The Iron Lady, Julie and Julia. She’s in the wrong categories for Devil and August.

She’s co-lead for August and literally the backbone of Prada.

Hathaway is the lead of Devil. Streep starts out as the focus of August, but Roberts becomes the true lead.

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[Jackson B Joined: May 29th, 2013 Topics: 5 Posts: 255 View Predictions]

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Among all these very showy performances MUSIC OF THE HEART stands out bc it was a very flat kind of role. She is good but definitely not oscar worthy. Esp over Reese Witherspoon in Election, that’s one of the greatest comedic performances of all time.
I also don’t think there is anything too special about her Adaptation performance.

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[AwardsConnect Joined: Jan 16th, 2016 Topics: 17 Posts: 3626 View Predictions]

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I wouldn’t have recognized her for The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Out of Africa, Ironweed, Music of the Heart, The Devil Wears Prada or Into the Woods. The absolute worst, I would argue, is Into the Woods.

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