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?