100 Days until Oscar. Let's Talk Oscar's (Future) Centennial...
Friday, November 24, 2017 at 10:30AM It's 100 days until Hollywood's High Holy Night but it's zero days until the HFPA, their bastard younger cousin starts voting. Balloting begins today for the 75th annual Golden Globe nominations. But today's magic number is 100.... so never mind about the HFPA. Let's talk about the future when we're all ten years older.
Meryl in old age makeup
Since this season is Oscar's 90th, we're ten years away from Oscar's centennial. Meryl Streep will be 78 years old by then but she seems like the only lock so far for the 2027 Oscar nominations. Tee hee! Out of curiosity how old is 78 for Oscar love? Quite old...
Only 19 actors that old or older have ever been nominated (with Christopher Plummer & Jessica Tandy as the only repeaters over that age) with only 4 of them winning. They are, from oldest to youngest in their times:
OLDEST OSCAR ACTING NOMINEES OR WINNERS
- 87 years old -- Supporting Actress Gloria Stuart, Titanic (1997)
(the oldest acting nominee of all time) - 85 years old -- Actress Emmanuelle Riva, Amour (2012)
- 85 years old -- Supporting Actress Ruby Dee, American Gangster (2007)
- 84 years old -- Supporting Actress June Squibb, Nebraska (2013)
- 84 years old -- Supporting Actor Robert Duvall, The Judge (2014)
- 82 years old -- Supporting Actor Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild (2007)
- 82 years old -- Supporting Actor Max von Sydow, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011)
- 82 years old -- Supporting Actress Jessica Tandy, Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
- 82 years old -- Supporting Actor Christopher Plummer, Beginners (2011)*
(the oldest acting winner of all time) - 82 years old -- Supporting Actor Ralph Richardson, Greystoke (1984)
- 82 years old -- Supporting Actress Eva le Galliene, Resurrection (1980)
- 80 years old -- Actress Jessica Tandy, Driving Miss Daisy (1989)*
- 80 years old -- Supporting Actor George Burns, The Sunshine Boys (1975)*
- 80 years old -- Supporting Actor Christopher Plummer, The Last Station (2009)
- 80 years old -- Actress Edith Evans, The Whisperers (1967)
- 79 years old -- Actor Richard Farnsworth, The Straight Story (1999)
- 79 years old -- Actress Judi Dench, Philomena (2013)
- 79 years old -- Supporting Actress Ann Sothern, The Whales of August (1987)
- 79 years old -- Supporting Actor Melvyn Douglas, Being There (1979)*
- 78 years old -- Supporting Actor Alan Arkin, Argo (2012)
- 78 years old -- Supporting Actor Paul Newman, Road to Perdition (2002)
So what will Meryl Streep be nominated for in 2027? Care to take a silly guess as to the type of role and category?
Reader Comments (18)
She'll still look youngish so she'll probably be playing Hillary in a biopic about the election.
Streep is nominated for a remake of "The Whales of August" but having won only 2 years prior for her Golda Meir biopic her co-star Glenn Close (finally) takes home the Oscar as does Annette Bening (finally) in Supporting for the Ann Sothern role in the original.
I hope they delay her cabal championed fourth win until she's in her 70s. Hepburn got her fourth in her 70s and so should Streep. Because damn it they refuse to let her go. What I'm really curious about is Meryl doing a Broadway show? Will critics and audiences eat her alive? (God I so want that!) or will everyone keep the myth going? The only truth 45 ever told is that she's overrated. Overrated as fuck.
Will a nonwhite actress ever again win Best Actress before Oscar turns 100?
Yeah-I’m with BillyBob-she’ll be nominated for playing Hillary around then.
Judi Dench might join this list again for Victoria and Abdul.
You are so sad, hurtful. How do you function carrying so much hate every single day?
Streep isn't overrated but her filmography sure is. She's had a weird habit of being the best thing in a lot of middling Oscar bait. This has been the case since the 80s with some exceptions.
The strange thing about Tandy is that she very easily could have gotten a third nomination after the age of 80 with Nobody's Fool (on paper, she, Sally Field, or Robin Wright make more sense than Jennifer Tilly, seemingly a big surprise in 1994). If Plummer does it, he'll become the first actor ever to get his first three acting nominations after 80.
I love.the haters here of an extremely talented actress like
Streep and then gush over the Stepford bean pole Kidman.
She can play Sandra Day O’Connor. Or star in Geek Love. The possibilities are endless. And I think she has several great films on her resume, but I know everyone is a critic.
She will star in a remake of The Trip to Bountiful and win an Oscar just like her idol Geraldine Page.
Susan B Anthony Biopic directed by Spielberg, Mamma Mia 3: Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie, and for the holidays a Disney film called Mrs. Scrooge!
Whatever the case she will be the most in demand 78 year old working in Hollywood and will receive her 5th Oscar the same year she announces her retirement from acting.. And then a couple years later will receive the honorary Oscar for her body of work.
I just love her in General and so very very much in Angels in America. OMG, the Rabbi alone was worth it. I literally fell off my chair when I first saw him.... her. :D
Meryl's nomination in 2027 will be for a movie that Pedro Amodovar will direct her in a story who will remind us like ALL ABOUT EVE with a great female cast supporting:
Kate Winslet
Cate Blanchett
Marion Cotillard
Penelope Cruz
Saoirse Ronan
Michelle Pfeffer
Glenn Close
Viola Davis
Gong Li
Isabelle Huppert
I love it when a badass grandma can make a much-younger man's life hell on a daily basis.
I'm not thinking about Meryl in the next 10 years just yet. I'm just glad The Post seem to be a great movie and Meryl will be nominated which is already more than enough for me.
But....that would be nice if Meryl can still sing and dance just to piss someone off with a supporting performance (and working with Cher again) in Mamma Mia 3 at the age of 78. She should only think about fun cause she would be nominated for a total of at least 25 times by then. What a badass Grandma!
Jamie, please give it a rest. Meryl doesn't deserve that or will even get that.
Brookesboy- guess we will see....
@jamie
I love your love for Streep! I am also crazy about her work.