The Oscars are over. And I'm just as pleased as almost everyone else that Martin Scorcese finally has a Best Director Oscar. I guess I'm glad on some level that Helen Mirren got an Oscar for best actress. She was superb in 'The Queen' but despite all the odds, I was still hoping for Meryl Streep to beat the odds and take her third Oscar (2nd for best actress). She does have the record for the most Oscar nominations - 14. But this also means she has lost more times than anyone else (at least in the acting categories).
So anyway here's a bit of a tribute to the Marvellous Meryl Streep, whom Diane Keaton calls "My Generation's Genius" (Diane's tribute to Meryl in 2004 when Meryl was given the American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award:
After all, she not only can act...
(my fave scene in 'The Devil Wears Prada'):
She can also sing...
(from 'Postcards from the Edge' - if there is any vid in this post you watch from start to finish, this should be it):
(and from 'A Prairie Home Companion')
And no one does accents and even languages better than her!
Speaking in perfect Polish in "Sophie's Choice" (warning: this video is extremely heart-wrenching!!)
Speaking in perfect German, also in "Sophie's Choice"
And copying Lindy Chamberlain's half-Australian/half-New Zealand accent to perfection in "A Cry in the Dark"
Congratulations again to all the Oscar winners. I am just hoping that at some point in the future, Meryl wins at least a couple more.
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