Are you excited for the Oscars?  The 84th Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, February 26.   Leading the pack of nominations  is Martin Scorsese‘s 3D animated film Hugo, with 11 nominations.  Baseball film Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, also did well, with six nominations, including Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor respectively.

Did your favorite film or star make the list?  Check out the nominees and tell us what you think.

Actor In A Leading Role

Demián Bichir in A Better Life
George Clooney in The Descendants
Jean Dujardin in The Artist
Gary Oldman in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Brad Pitt in Moneyball

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Meryl Streep is Vogue‘s January 2012 cover girl.  At 62 years old, she’s the oldest actress to grace the magazine’s cover, but who’s counting?   Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Streep looks incredible:  luminous, natural, and lovely.

She gives a serious, smart interview, discussing her pet causes – sustainable agriculture, the National Women’s History Museum – and her role as Margaret Thatcher, England’s controversial, first female prime minister, in The Iron Lady.   Streep explained why this project matters more to her than anything she’s worked on in awhile:

“Because the material embedded in it is a lot of what I’ve been thinking about. The themes in the film, which I don’t feel like underlining, have interested me for a while. And you never see these subjects covered in films normally, and so that was very thrilling…Women and power and diminishment of power and loss of power.  And reconciliation with your life when you come to a point when you’ve lived most of it and it’s behind you. I have always liked and been intrigued by older people, and the idea that behind them lives every human trauma, drama, glory, jokes, love.”

Smart, serious, luminous and lovely.  Read the whole article here.

Photo:  Vogue

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Here’s the first official poster for the upcoming film starring Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher The Iron Lady.

Meryl Streep is probably going to be contending for best actress yet again at next year’s Oscars for her role in this film. She’s the only actress that is so consistently impressive that nominations are incredibly common. This isn’t a movie that would have any pull for me were it not for her involvement. The Iron Lady opens on December 16th, 2011.

Source: IMP Awards

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Here’s the very first teaser trailer for the upcoming film The Iron Lady starring Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher.

It only shows her for a couple of lines, but it’s enough to show her ever present brilliance on screen. Meryl Streep will be an Oscar nominee again next year, I’d be willing to stake money on it. This movie is probably going to be quite good, I’m looking forward to this one.

Source:  YouTube

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Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating today, June 22nd, including:

1936 – Kris Kristofferson, actor
1943 – Brit Hume, news anchor
1948 – Todd Rundgren, musician
1949 – Meryl Streep, actress
1949 – Lindsay Wagner, actress
1952 – Graham Greene, actor
1953 – Cyndi Lauper, singer
1958 – Bruce Campbell, actor
1960 – Erin Brokovich, environmental activist
1960 – Tracy Pollan, actress
1962 – Stephen Chow, director
1964 – Amy Brenneman, actress
1964 – Dan Brown, author
1965 – Uwe Boll, director
1973 – Carson Daly, talk show host
1974 – Donald Faison, actor
1978 – Jai Rodriguez, television fashion commentator

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Tommy Lee Jones is joining Meryl Streep and Steve Carell in he upcoming movie Great Hope Springs.

Tommy Lee Jones will star alongside Meryl Streep and Steve Carell in Great Hope Springs, the Mandate comedy being directed by David Frankel.

The project, written by Vanessa Taylor, centers on a middle-aged couple (Streep and Jones)  who after 30 years of marriage attend an intense counseling weekend to examine the marriage and sex issues that are threatening their marriage. Carell plays the famed relationship guru who tries to help the couple out once they arrive in the town of Great Hope Springs.

This movie sounds like it has the potential to be really funny, all three have comedy chops. I’m looking forward seeing how this one turns out, I see a lot of laughs coming from these actors. Meryl Streep is always good, she’s one of the most consistently good actors out there. Expect Great Hope Springs in theaters late next year.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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Here’s the first official image from the upcoming film The Iron Lady starring Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher.

Here’s a shot of the real people for comparison:

Meryl Streep and Jim Broadbent show their true — blue — colours as they portray former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her husband Denis.

My exclusive shot is from Phyllida Lloyd’s film The Iron Lady and it’s a recreation of the 1980 Conservative Party conference at Brighton, when the Fighting Lady (as Time magazine dubbed her that year) put the country on alert over battles with unions regarding pay and jobs.

Pretty amazing makeup! I’m looking forward to seeing Meryl Streep in this role, we all know she’ll be amazing. She fully commits to her roles, I’m sure she’ll make the portrayal completely solid! Expect this one in theaters next year.

Source: Daily Mail

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Here’s the first image of the hugely talented Meryl Streep in the upcoming film The Iron Lady.

Finally, here’s the first image of Meryl Streep as former British prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. She’s playing the leader in The Iron Lady, which focuses primarily on the days of Thatcher’s government leading up to the war in the Falkland Islands. Phyllida Lloyd is directing — that’s the director of Mamma Mia!

Impressive! She really looks like Margaret Thatcher, and knowing Streep she’ll peg the character like no other actress could. There are few actors in the world that I would say are truly brilliant, Meryl Streep is one of them. I wouldn’t usually be interested in a movie about the former British prime minister, but I’m looking forward to this one for obvious reasons.

Source: /Film

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Finally Meryl Streep and Tina Fey will likely be working together in the upcoming film Mommy & Me.

The two very talented ladies are showing interest in a movie project titled, Mommy & Me. There is a 21 year age difference between Tina and Meryl so that doesn’t sound too bad.

Stanley Tucci, Streep’s good friend and co-star in The Devil Wears Prada and Julie & Julia will direct the comedy.

The movie is currently in the very beginning phases. There’s no script yet, but the concept has been getting a lot of buzz at the studios.

I love both of them, should be a great combination! We’ll have to wait and see what it’s going to be about.

Source: Hollyscoop

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Getting actress Penelope Cruz to guest edit the May edition of French Vogue really came with some perks namely Meryl Streep, Gwyneth Paltrow, Julianne Moore, Naomi Watts, Kate Winslet and Bono, to name a few. The actresses all appear together on one cover in Gap t-shirts that benefit Bono’s ONE charity. The other two alterna-covers have Penny cozied up to Bono for one and Cruz wrapping herself around Meryl on the other.

There are some notable features thanks to Ms Cruz and her friends – including a collage story from John Galliano about Cruz and her longtime director and close pal, Pedro Almodovar, Cruz taking pics of pals Salma Hayek, Javier Bardem and Sean Penn, a fashion shoot by Steven Meisel with plus size model Crystal Renn (highlighting Renn’s 70′s porn pubes, yes that is true) and Almodovar interview the legendary actress Jeanne Moureau.

Check out the two alternative covers below.

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