The first half brought a lot of public appearances at awards shows as a nominee for last year’s season of “Only Murders in the Building”. Streep attended the Golden Globes, AFI Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards – and, later in the year, the Primetime Emmy Awards. She also attended the Palm Springs International Film Festival to honor Carey Mulligan, and presented life achievement awards to both Cher at the iHeartRadio Music Awards and to Nicole Kidman at the AFI Life Achievement Awards. In May of 2024, Streep herself picked up an award – the much-publicized Honorary Palme d’Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.

In August, the fourth season of “Only Murders in the Building” premiered, and although Meryl returned as Loretta Durkin, her peformance was limited to three episodes. As Vulture wrote, “One thing Only Murders is very good at is strategically timing Meryl Streep’s appearances so we don’t realize that she’s barely in this show”. Later in the year, she joined musician Rufus Wainwright as the narrator of his opera “Dream Requiem” in Paris, narrated a couple of documentaries on the arts and politics, and took part in the television special “Unite for America with Oprah Winfrey” to endorse presidential candidate Kamala Harris.