Meryl Streep Achievements - add "truth to power"

Although speaking "truth to power"isn't an official award, the kind to display in an awards cabinet, Meryl Streep's brilliant stature in the performing arts provided her a tremendous opportunity to stand up to Donald Trump and his bullying by intimidation style. 

Obviously, what upset Donald Trump, so much that he desperately tried to respond with more ugly intimidation tactics, was the reality that Ms. Streep pierced his ego with precision accuracy. 

Meryl Streep Award

Here's the full transcript of her Golden Globe speech at this link.

Indeed, Trump had no way to respond except to pile on more of the same lexicon pulled from his limited vocabulary.

So, Donald Trump accuses Meryl Streep of being overrated when it's his own business ineptness that put his financials into 6 bankruptcies.

In "Entertainment", is a long list of Ms. Streep's impressive credentials, to which she adds "speaking truth to power" as an *asterisk to her Cecile B. DeMille award (in my opinion):

After 30 Golden Globe nominations in 38 years, Meryl Streep was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award at Sunday’s 74th annual Golden Globes. In what has become the biggest moment from the show’s broadcast, Streep used her acceptance speech as an opportunity to criticize president-elect Donald Trump, singling out his mockery of New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, who is disabled, during a 2015 rally.

According to Viola Davis, who presented Streep with the honor on Sunday, the world sees Streep for what she is: “a muse” whose “artistry reminds us the impact of what it means to be an artist, which is to make us feel less alone.” Trump, however, quickly responded to Streep’s remarks, labeling her “one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood.”
Three Academy Awards
With more nominations (19 total) than any actress — living or dead — to her credit, Streep has amassed three Oscars in just over three decades. She received her first Academy Award nomination in 1979 and won her first statuette the following year as a supporting actress in Robert Benton’s Kramer vs. Kramer. That film’s success ignited Streep’s ascension to the status of an industry royal, earning critical raves for her master turns in both prestige productions and commercial hits alike, ultimately winning an additional pair of Oscars — one for Sophie’s Choice in 1983 and a third for The Iron Lady in 2012.

Presidential Medal of Freedom
Her status in the film industry rivals that of a deity, so it’s difficult to remember Streep is still considered a “civilian” in the eyes of the government. She scored the highest civilian honor from President Barack Obama in 2014, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom alongside Stevie Wonder and Tom Brokaw for their “contributions to U.S. security, world peace, and cultural achievement.” Speaking on Streep’s contributions to the art of acting, Obama said, “I love her. Her husband knows I love her. Michelle [Obama] knows I love her. There’s nothing that either of them can do about it. Meryl is truly one of America’s leading ladies.”

Kennedy Center Honor
Six years ago, the John F. Kennedy Center honored Streep for her contributions to culture through performing arts. She was saluted at a ceremony presided over by the Obamas, and attended by the likes of Bill and Hillary Clinton — the latter of whom Streep was touted to portray in a film adaptation during the awards ceremony. Clinton, then the country’s Secretary of State, reportedly flew home to Washington, D.C. for 36 hours to celebrate the honorees. Streep would later lend her voice to various political efforts, memorably taking the stage in support of Clinton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

Honorary doctorate degrees from four Ivy League universities
A former homecoming queen during her tenure at Bernards High School, Streep starred in various productions at the New Jersey institution, later going on to front stage plays at Vassar College before successfully completing her MFA program at the Yale School of Drama in 1975. As her film career took off, Streep received an honorary degree from her graduate school alma mater in 1983, receiving similar recognition from Dartmouth, Princeton, and Harvard.

Cannes Film Festival Best Actress
Streep has earned trophies and nominations from a gaggle of global awards bodies, including two BAFTA prizes in the U.K., a Silver Bear for best actress at Berlinale, and an honorary César in France. In 1989, for her work in Fred Schepisi’s A Cry in the Dark, Streep earned one of the most prestigious acting prizes in the film industry: the Cannes Film Festival’s best actress prize. The award is bestowed by an annually rotating jury of esteemed film industry figures, which included icons like Wim Wenders, Sally Field, Georges Delerue, and Krzysztof Kieślowski the year Streep won.

Read on for more notable industry honors, in alphabetical order, Streep has garnered since 1976.

-American Film Institute: 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award
-BAFTA Awards: Two competitive wins, 14 total nominations since 1979
-Berlin International Film Festival: Berlinale Camera, Silver Bear for best actress, Honorary Golden Berlin Bear
-Critics’ Choice Awards: Three competitive wins, 11 total nominations since 2003
-Golden Globes: Eight competitive wins, one Cecil B. DeMille Award, 30 total nominations since 1979
-Grammy Awards: Five total nominations since 1986
-Hollywood Walk of Fame: Received her star in 1998
-National Board of Review: Four competitive wins since 1979
-National Medal of the Arts in 2010
-Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France’s highest artistic honor) in 2003
-Palm Springs International Film Festival: 2014 Icon Award
-People’s Choice Awards: Eight competitive wins, 38 total nominations since 1979
-Primetime Emmy Awards: Two competitive wins, three total nominations since 1978
-Screen Actors Guild Awards: Two competitive wins, 17 total nominations since 1995
-Tony Awards: One nomination since 1976

Now, Ms. Streep can proudly add a "truth to power" gilded certificate to all of the above.

Maybe a Nobel Peace prize, too?

Standing ovation for Meryl Streep

Here's the transcript of how Ms. Streep used her brilliant acceptance speech for the Cecile B. DeMille 2017 Award to "streep" Donald J. Trump. Thank you, Ms. Streep.

I’ve lost my voice from screaming in lamentation this weekend. 

Meryl Streep who "Streeped" truth to power to Donald Trump at the Golden Globes.

 She said:

I have lost my mind sometime earlier this year, so I have to read. 

Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press. Just to pick up on what Hugh Laurie said, you, and all of us in this room, belong to the most vilified segments in American society right now. Think about it. Hollywood. Foreigners. The Press. Who are we? What is Hollywood, anyway? It’s just a bunch of people from other places. I was born and raised in the public schools of New Jersey. Viola [Davis] was born in a sharecropper’s cabin in South Carolina and came up in Central Falls, Rhode Island. Sarah Paulson was born in Florida and raised by a single mom in Brooklyn. Sarah Jessica Parker was one of several or eight kids from Ohio. Amy Adams was born in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem. Where are their birth certificates? The beautiful Ruth Negga was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, raised in Ireland, and she’s here nominated for playing a small town girl from Virginia. Ryan Gosling, like all the nicest people, is Canadian. Dev Patel was born in Kenya, raised in London, and is here for playing an Indian raised in Tasmania. So Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners, and if we kick them all out, you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.

An actor’s only job is to enter the lives of people that are different from us and let you feel what that feels like. 

There were many, many, many powerful performances this year that did exactly that—breathtaking, compassionate work. But there was one performance this year that stunned me, that sank it’s hooks in my heart. It wasn’t because it was good—there was nothing good about it—but it was effective and it did it’s job. 

t made its intended audience laugh, and show their teeth. It was that moment, when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can’t get it out of my head, because it wasn’t in a movie; it was real life. This instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.

This brings me to the press. We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them to the carpet for every outrage. That’s why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our community to join the Committee to Protect Journalists, because we’re going to need them going forward, and they’ll need us to safeguard the truth.

One more thing: Once, when I was standing around on the set one day, whining about something, that we were going to work through supper or the long hours or whatever, Tommy Lee Jones said to me, ‘Isn’t it such a privilege, Meryl, just to be an actor?’ Yeah, it is, and we have to remind each other of the privilege, and the responsibility, of the act of empathy. 

We should all be very proud of the work Hollywood honors here tonight. As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once: Take your broken heart, make it into art.

Standing ovation for Ms. Streep!