AFI Taps Streep For Life Achievement Award
Double Oscar Winner Receives Honor June 10
POSTED: 7:59 a.m. EDT October 20, 2003
Two-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep has been selected by the American Institute as its 32nd recipient of its Life Achievement Award, the organization announced Friday.
"Meryl Streep is one of the great artists in the history of American film. Her talent, range and determination to master her craft bring out performances that sometimes border on the ethereal," said Sir Howard Stringer, the Chairman of the AFI's Board of Trustees. "In that sense, she is truly peerless. It is AFI's great honor to present its Life Achievement Award to this truly gifted actor."
Streep made film history earlier this year when she earned her 13th Oscar nomination, surpassing a record previously held by the late Katharine Hepburn. She's won two Oscars -- the first for Best Supporting Actress for 1979's "Kramer vs. Kramer" and the second for 1982's "Sophie's Choice."
Streep will be honored with the AFI award June 10 at the Kokak Theater in Hollywood, Calif.
Currently Streep is in production on the Jonathan Demme remake of the classic dramatic thriller "The Manchurian Candidate," where she'll star opposite Denzel Washington.
The Life Achievement honor last year went to Streep's "Deer Hunter" and "Falling in Love" co-star Robert De Niro.
Previous winners of the award include Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Barbra Streisand, Clint Eastwood, Fred Astaire, Alfred Hitchcock, Bette Davis and Orson Welles.
"Meryl Streep is one of the great artists in the history of American film. Her talent, range and determination to master her craft bring out performances that sometimes border on the ethereal," said Sir Howard Stringer, the Chairman of the AFI's Board of Trustees. "In that sense, she is truly peerless. It is AFI's great honor to present its Life Achievement Award to this truly gifted actor."
Streep made film history earlier this year when she earned her 13th Oscar nomination, surpassing a record previously held by the late Katharine Hepburn. She's won two Oscars -- the first for Best Supporting Actress for 1979's "Kramer vs. Kramer" and the second for 1982's "Sophie's Choice."
Streep will be honored with the AFI award June 10 at the Kokak Theater in Hollywood, Calif.
Currently Streep is in production on the Jonathan Demme remake of the classic dramatic thriller "The Manchurian Candidate," where she'll star opposite Denzel Washington.
The Life Achievement honor last year went to Streep's "Deer Hunter" and "Falling in Love" co-star Robert De Niro.
Previous winners of the award include Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Barbra Streisand, Clint Eastwood, Fred Astaire, Alfred Hitchcock, Bette Davis and Orson Welles.
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