Meryl Streep being nominated is just one of those things that happens during the Oscars, like a Best Actress winner bursting into tears or a Hollywood veteran making a heinous error.
Streep has been Oscar-nominated 20 times in the past 40 years. Her first was for The Deer Hunter in 1978, her most recent for Florence Foster Jenkins in 2016.
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This year, no doubt, she'll clock another for The Post. She's won three times: for Kramer vs Kramer, Sophie's Choice and The Iron Lady.
But who needs to know all of that? Certainly not Streep, who demonstrated just how poor her memory is / how little she cares for the gongs / how good she is at acting by struggling to remember a mere five films that she has been recognised by the Academy for when quizzed by US chat show host Jimmy Kimmel.