Following the duties of the president at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in 2016 , Streep starred in the Stephen Frears-directed comedy '' Florence Foster Jenkins '' ( 2016 ) , an eponymous biopic about a blithely unaware tone-deaf opera singer who insists upon public performance . Other cast members were Hugh Grant and Simon Helberg . Robbie Collin considered it to be one of her most " human performance " and felt that it was " full of warmth that gives way to heart-pinching pathos " . She won the Critics ' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy , and received Academy Award , Golden Globe , SAG , and BAFTA nominations . Streep next starred as the first American female newspaper publisher , Katharine Graham , to Tom Hanks ' Ben Bradlee , in Steven Spielberg 's political drama '' The Post '' ( 2017 ) , which centers on '' The Washington Post '' s publication of the 1971 Pentagon Papers . The film received positive reviews with praise directed to the performances of the two leads . Manohla Dargis wrote that " Streep creates an acutely moving portrait of a woman who in liberating herself helps instigate a revolution " . It earned over $ 177 million against a budget of $ 50 million . Streep received her 31st Golden Globe nomination and 21st Academy Award nomination for Best Actress
66th Berlin International Film Festival
66th Berlin International Film Festival
Meryl Streep