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Awards Season: Broadcast Film Critics nominations announced and the kudos begin for Meryl Streep

Awards season is upon us with the Golden Globe Award nominations being announced early tomorrow morning. But the Broadcast Film Critics Association beat the Globes by announcing its award nominees today.

I’m excited that Tom Ford is nominated for his A Single Man screenplay and Colin Firth and Julianne Moore receiving acting nods for the film. Another out director, Lee Daniels, also got a nod for best director for the highly acclaimed Precious. Another out director, Rob Marshall, was passed over for the musical Nine but the film was nominated for best picture and earned nine other nods.

Then there is Meryl Streep, my favorite. Meryl has been nominated for her performance in Julie & Julia and won the award last year for Doubt. She will face stiff competition that includes Precious star Gabourey Sidibe.

(Here is a LINK to the full list of nominees)

But Miss Streep can already be assured of two victories for Julie & Julia: the Boston Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics Circle have both named her best actress for her wonderful performance as the late Julia Child in the summer box office hit.

She will most certainly get a Globe nod and be positioned as one of the favorites for the Academy Awards.

We’ve been waiting since 1983 – that is 26 years – for Meryl to win that third Oscar. She did not win for Doubt or for The Devil Wears Prada or for Adaptation or for One True Thing or for The Bridges of Madison County or for Postcards from the Edge or for A Cry in the Dark or for Ironweed or for Silkwood or for Out of Africa or for Music of the Heart.

Those are the movies she’s been nominated for since she last won for Sophie’s Choice. Her first actress came three years earlier for Kramer vs. Kramer. She’s also been nominated for The Deer Hunter and The French Lieutenant’s Woman.

Let’s hope this is finally her year again!

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