 In 2009 , Streep played chef Julia Child in Nora Ephron 's Julie & Julia , co @-@ starring Amy Adams and Stanley Tucci . ( Tucci and Streep had worked together earlier in Devil Wears Prada . ) The first major motion picture based on a blog , Julie and Julia contrasts the life of Child in the early years of her culinary career with the life of young New Yorker Julie Powell ( Adams ) , who aspires to cook all 524 recipes in Child 's cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking . Longworth believes her caricature of Julia Child was " quite possibly the biggest performance of her career while also drawing on her own experience to bring lived @-@ in truth the story of a late bloomer " . The same year , Streep starred in Nancy Meyers ' romantic comedy It 's Complicated , with Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin . She received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for both Julie & Julia and It 's Complicated ; she won the award for Julie & Julia and later received her 16th Oscar nomination for it . She also lent her voice to Mrs. Felicity Fox in the stop @-@ motion film Fantastic Mr. Fox . 
