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 director Redford considered the movie "the tightest schedule I've ever worked with". Upon its release, "Lions for Lambs" received generally negative reviews from critics, with Wesley Morris from "The Boston Globe" writing: "It does not feel good to report that a movie with Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, and Tom Cruise makes the eyelids droop. But that's what "Lions for Lambs" does." In 2008, Streep found major commercial success when she starred in Phyllida Lloyd's "Mamma Mia!", a film adaptation of the 1999 West End musical of the same name, based on the songs of the Swedish pop group ABBA. Shot