Meryl Streep to receive lifetime achievement award at Berlin film fest.
Posted January 3, 2012 8:52 am.
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Actress Meryl Streep is set to receive an honorary Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
The Golden Bear for lifetime achievement will be presented to the actress at the screening of her latest film, The Iron Lady, on February 14 at the Berlinale Palast.
In the film, directed by Mamma Mia director Phyllida Lloyd, Streep plays former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who led the UK from 1979 to 1990.
It is a both a study of the rise and fall of political power, as well as an intimate portrait of Thatcher, and stars Streep as Lady Thatcher and British actor Jim Broadbent as her husband, Denis Thatcher.
Streep was previously honoured with the Berlinale Camera, given to distinguished actors, in 1999 at the Berlin Film Festival, where she and director Carl Franklin presented the film One True Thing. In the film, Streep plays a cancer-stricken mother, opposite her career-minded screen daughter, Renee Zellweger, a role that saw Streep nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar the same year.
In 2003, Streep shared a Silver Bear with Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman for their performances in Stephen Daldry’s The Hours.
Streep has appeared in over 40 films, received 16 Oscar nominations, of which she has won two for Alan J. Pakula’s Sophie’s Choice (Best Actress in a Leading Role) in 1983 and Robert Benton’s Kramer vs. Kramer (Best Actress in a Supporting Role) in 1980: Both will be screened as part of the Berlinale homage.
She has also received 18 Golden Globe nominations, winning seven times.
The actress’s breakthrough role was in the late 1970s with the TV series Holocaust and Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter.
