Meryl Streep: Is the 3-time Oscar winner about to become a 4-time Emmy champ?
Meryl Streep returned to the awards spotlight this year with an Emmy bid for Best Comedy Supporting Actress for her scene-stealing role in Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building.” In this hit Hulu comedy, Streep plays Loretta Durkin — a struggling Broadway actress who becomes the love interest to Martin Short‘s Oliver.
Streep has always been an awards darling so it was no surprise to see her cited here. Her rivals in this race are: Carol Burnett (“Palm Royale”), Liza Colón-Zayas (“The Bear”), Hannah Einbinder (“Hacks”), Janelle James (“Abbott Elementary”) and Sheryl Lee Ralph (also “Abbott Elementary”).
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This marked Streep’s sixth Emmy nomination. That’s a long way from her whopping 21 Oscar bids. Scroll down for a comparison of her win/loss record at the biggest TV and movie awards in the world.
Streep has over three times the amount of Oscar nominations than she does Emmy bids. She’s been nominated at five of the last six decades at the Emmys — 1970s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s. The only decade she missed was the 1980s, which was when her movie career really took off. Indeed, she racked up a staggering seven bids in that decade. She has also been Oscar-nominated in five out of the last six decades. She was Oscar-nominated in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. The only decade she has missed (so far) is the 2020s, although there is still time to fix that.
With 21 Oscar nominations across six decades, Streep has averaged 3.5 nominations per decade. Conversely, she has averaged one Emmy bid per decade.
Even though Streep has had over three times the amount of Oscar bids than Emmy citations, she has won the same amount of awards at both groups. She won two of her Oscars in the 1980s (“Kramer vs. Kramer” in 1980 and “Sophie’s Choice” in 1983) and one in the 2010s (“The Iron Lady” in 2012). She won her Emmys, however, in three different decades — the 1970s (“Holocaust”), the 2000s (“Angels in America”), and the 2010s (“Five Came Back”).
However, she has a far better hit rate at the Emmys. With three Oscar wins out of 21 bids, she has a success rate of 14%. Her Emmys success rate, with three wins out of five, sits at 60%. If she were to win this year for “Only Murders in the Building,” however, that hit rate would jump up to 67%. If she were to lose, it would drop to 50% (corrected as per comment below).
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