Congratulations to Meryl for winning the Critics Choice Movie Award as Best Actress for “Julie & Julia”. Just like last year the category resulted in a tie, honoring Streep for “Julia” as well as Sandra Bullock for “The Blind Side”. Judging from the pictures it must have been a fun night. A video of Meryl’s acceptance speech will follow, if you have managed to record it, please let me know. For now, 180 photos from the event can be found in the Image Library.

“It’s Complicated” has opened US theaters on Christmas Day and I’m sure many of you have either seen it or are curious to know how it was. So here you can write down your review on how you liked the film and what you thought of it. Please keep in mind to avoid spoilers for those who haven’t seen it. Your reviews are appreciated!

Today, Meryl has attended Good Morning America to promote “It’s Complicated”, dish on her double Golden Globe nomination and Christmas. The complete interview can be streamed in the video archive, screencaps in high quality can be found in the Image Library.

Today’s British Sunday Times newspaper has a (rather strange) cover of Meryl and Alec Baldwin and a very funny interview with the two inside. Thanks to Alvaro for the scans, be sure to read the article in the magazines archive, an excerpt can be found below the Image Libraries’ previews. Enjoy your Sunday!

Streep: At this age it’s unusual for somebody to do a love scene, to be making love. Yeah, that is unusual. But that is just how benighted we are. Because, you know, we still are alive. It’s you and I, baby. It’s authentic. The whole idea that you have to look a certain way and be a certain age to earn love is ridiculous. We love what we love. It doesn’t matter what shape it is. It’s thrilling to see real people on screen. The thing that broke that little barrier for me was Julie & Julia, where everyone said, “Isn’t it remarkable that a tall overweight woman and a short bald man could be in love?” Well, yeah? You know what I mean? You’re alive.

Baldwin [mock angry]: And the day you brought Stanley Tucci to the set of our film, I hated you for doing that. I thought, what a rude thing of you to do.

Streep: Did you really?

Baldwin: I was soooo hurt that you did that, because you and he had such chemistry. You were lovely together. It was like bringing your ex-husband to the set.

Streep: Oh, my God, I never thought of that.

Baldwin: Obviously you didn’t! I was your man in this movie, and you brought Stanley there? My penis telescoped up into my body. You know what? I’m going to do one of those movies like 300, where I’m all muscled up, and I’ve got my boobs all oiled and everything.

Streep: And they’ll be going, “Alec Baldwin’s back! He’s back!”

A new interview video from CNN with the cast of “It’s Complicated” has been added to the video archive. It can be also streamed below. 

Congratulations to Meryl for winning a Best Actress nomination for “Julie & Julia” for the Screen Actors Guild Award. The awards will be handed out in a live ceremony January 23, 2010.

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy – “The Blind Side”
Helen Mirren as Sofya – “The Last Station”
Carey Mulligan as Jenny – “An Education”
Gabourey Sidibe as Precious – “Precious”
Meryl Streep as Julia Child – “Julie & Julia”

Meryl Streep has received two Golden Globe nominations, both in the category of Best Actress in a Comedy, for “Julie & Julia” and “It’s Complicated”. Both films also received nominations as Best Picture, Musical or Comedy. Her third motion picture of 2009, “Fantastic Mr. Fox” is in the running as Best Animated Feature. A complete list of nominees in the related categories can be found below. Congratulations!

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Sandra Bullock – The Proposal
Marion Cotillard – Nine
Julia Roberts – Duplicity
Meryl Streep – It’s Complicated
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia

 

Today, Meryl has scored two more Best Actress nominations for “Julie & Julia” – this time by the Critics Choice (she won the Best Actress award for “Doubt” last year) and the St. Louis Film Critics Association. The St. Louis winners will be announced on December 20, the Critics Choice Awards will be handed out in a live ceremony on January 15, 2010 on VH1. Update: Meryl has been announced as the Best Actress winner of the 2009 New York Film Critics Circle Award for “Julie & Julia”. Congratulations!

Meryl has won the Boston Society of Film Critics as Best Actress for “Julie & Julia”. More and more award winners and nominations will be announced in the coming days – the Los Angeles and New York Film Critics as well as the Critics Choice Awards tomorrow and the Golden Globe Award nominations on Wednesday. The calendar has been updated with all important award dates, with many thanks to Stephanie for creating this list, so have a look at what to look forward to in the coming weeks.

Added more clips and pictures from the New York premiere of “It’s Complicated”. Enjoy and thanks as always to Nora and Tina for the heads-up!