Florence Foster Jenkins type Movie genre Biography

The queen stays the queen, as Meryl Streep added another award to her collection by picking up Best Actress in a Comedy at the 22nd annual Critics’ Choice Awards in Los Angeles Sunday for her role in Florence Foster Jenkins.

Unfortunately, Streep couldn’t be there to accept her award. “We actually have a lunch date tomorrow, so I’ll make sure she gets her award,” joked Nia Long, who presented the award with Cuba Gooding Jr.

The casting is humorous: The ridiculously talented Streep plays a hilariously unqualified opera singer, who is nonetheless humored by her husband, St. Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant). Streep perfectly nailed the balancing act.

“The first time I heard Meryl, it was up there among the funniest things I’d ever heard,” Grant said in one making-of featurette. “Not just bad, but hilariously bad. Pure genius.”

Streep beat out Kate Beckinsale for Love & Friendship, Sally Field for Hello, My Name Is Doris, Kate McKinnon for Ghostbusters, and Hailee Steinfeld for The Edge of Seventeen.