# Meryl Streep's best movies

Three Oscars and a record 21 nominations: the best Meryl Streep films, ordered from SlashFilm, Gold Derby and Metacritic.

- 3 votes · 15 items
- Aug 15, 2026 · N. Clark
- https://even.best/en/l/3850/meryl-streep-s-best-movies

## Top 15

1. **Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A divorce and a custody battle; her first Oscar.
2. **The Post (2017)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Katharine Graham and the Pentagon Papers.
3. **Sophie's Choice (1982)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Her second Oscar; often called her defining performance.
4. **The Devil Wears Prada (2006)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Miranda Priestly, comic and terrifying.
5. **The Deer Hunter (1978)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Steelworkers sent to Vietnam; Best Picture.
6. **Little Women (2019)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Aunt March in Greta Gerwig's adaptation.
7. **The Bridges of Madison County (1995)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — An Iowa farm wife and a photographer, with Clint Eastwood.
8. **Doubt (2008)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A nun suspects a priest, from John Patrick Shanley's play.
9. **Adaptation. (2002)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Susan Orlean in Charlie Kaufman's puzzle.
10. **Silkwood (1983)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The nuclear-plant whistleblower Karen Silkwood.
11. **Out of Africa (1985)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Karen Blixen in Kenya; Best Picture.
12. **The Iron Lady (2011)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Margaret Thatcher; her third Oscar.
13. **Postcards from the Edge (1990)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — An actress in rehab, from Carrie Fisher.
14. **Mamma Mia! (2008)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — ABBA songs on a Greek island.
15. **Julie & Julia (2009)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Julia Child in 1950s Paris.

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