Meryl Streep Actress, National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her collective work in her three film releases of 1979. Both "The Deer Hunter" and "Kramer vs. Kramer" were major commercial successes and were consecutive winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 1979, Streep began workshopping "Alice in Concert", a musical version of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", with writer and composer Elizabeth Swados and director Joseph Papp; the show was put on at New York's Public Theater from December 1980. Frank Rich of "The New York
Meryl Streep in the 2000s films "The Manchurian Candidate" and "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events". In 2005, Streep starred in the film "Prime". Streep began 2006 with the film "A Prairie Home Companion", and that same year starred in "The Devil Wears Prada" and the stage production "Mother Courage and Her Children". In 2007, Streep appeared in the films "Dark Matter", "Rendition", "Evening", and "Lions for Lambs". In 2008, Streep starred in the films "Mamma Mia!" and "Doubt". In 2009, Streep starred in the films "Julie & Julia" and "It's Complicated", as well as loaning her voice to the animated film "Fantastic Mr.