Meryl Streep, national treasure, went on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday night to promote Steven Spielberg’s The Post in the midst of awards season, and, naturally, because she is Meryl Streep, the topic of nominations came up.
With The Post this season’s Oscar bait-iest of baits, we’re likely to see it make a showing at the Academy Awards next month.
Streep, giggling through it, manages to get five of the 20 before her time is up — The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Kramer vs. Kramer, Silkwood, Sophie’s Choice, and Out of Africa.
Seth Meyers even had a joke in his Golden Globes monologue in which he listed all the big names involved in it – Meryl Streep, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks — and then shooed an aide off the stage who had prematurely brought out all of their awards.