No matter if Meryl will take home another Screen Actors Guild Award on Sunday or not, according to the SAG’s recent press release, she’ll take the stage anyway – as a presenter. The Screen Actors Guild Awards Executive Producer Jeff Margolis has announced that Actor® recipients including Tina Fey, Kevin Bacon, Kenneth Branagh, Jean Dujardin, John Krasinski, Kyra Sedgwick, Meryl Streep and Michelle Williams are to present at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. They join an already impressive list of actors who are honoring their colleagues, including Kyle Chandler, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Judy Greer, Larry Hagman, Armie Hammer, Ed Helms, SAG President Ken Howard, Regina King, Julianna Margulies, Natalie Portman, Maya Rudolph, Octavia Spencer and Dick Van Dyke. The 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® will take place at the hrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles and be simulcast live on TNT as well as TBS on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, at 8 p.m. (ET) / 5 p.m. (PT).

The presenters for the 2011 Theater Hall of Fame induction ceremony have been announced, according to a report in The New York Times. Estelle Parsons will host the event, which will be held at the Gershwin Theater on Monday, January 30. Jane Alexander, Brian Dennehy, Liza Minnelli, Phylicia Rashad, and Meryl Streep will serve as presenters at the induction ceremony, which honors theater professionals for lifetime achievement. The 2011 Theater Hall of Fame inductees are actors Tyne Daly and Ben Vereen; directors Daniel Sullivan and Paul Sills (the latter of which is a posthumous honor); costume designer Ann Roth; and producers George White, Elliot Martin, and Woodie King Jr.

Congratulations to Meryl Streep for receiving a Best Actress Oscar nomination for “The Iron Lady”. She shares the category with Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs), Viola Davis (The Help), Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn). This is the seventeenth Academy Award nomination for Meryl Streep. “The Iron Lady” has received a further nomination for Makeup (Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland). The Academy Awards are handed out on February 26, 2012.

I am honored to be in company with such beautiful artists, and touched deeply by my fellow actors for their generosity in giving me this acknowledgment. (Meryl Streep, Entertainmnent Weekly)

With the Academy Award nominations being announced tomorrow, I’ve chosen one of Meryl’s Oscar-winning films to cover this week. 1979’s “Kramer vs. Kramer” won five Academy Awards, including for Best Picture and, of course, Best Supporting Actress for Meryl. The film hasn’t lost its relevancy since 1979 and is very recommended to watch. You can read the production notes and my review after the cut. The image library has been updated with additional promotional stills, on-set pictures, captures from the 2001 documentary “Finding the Truth: The Making of Kramer vs. Kramer” as well as Blu Ray screencaptures from the film. The video archive has been updated with new clips as well. As always, please share your thoughts on the film in the comments.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Meryl Streep is to narrate “To The Arctic 3D”, a co-production from MacGillivray Freeman Films and Warner Bros. Pictures to bow in Imax theaters on April 20, 2012. The documentary by Oscar-nominated Greg MacGillivray (The Living Sea, Dolphins) takes viewers to the top of the world in a tale of survival. “To The Arctic 3D” is also MacGillivray Freeman’s third collaboration with Meryl Streep after she narrated Hurricane on the Bayou in 2006 and The Living Sea in 1995.

Lots of new scans from European magazines have been added to the gallery, ranging from December 2011 to January 2012 and coming from Spain, Italy, France and the United Kingdom. A complete list is below – my biggest thanks go to those who have contributed the scans to Simply Streep – Alvaro, Simona, Martine and Elmira. Thanks very much! :-)

Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2012 > Marie Claire (France, January 2012)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2012 > Gioia (Italy, January 28, 2012)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2012 > Imagenes de Actualidad (Spain, January 2012)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2012 > Cinemania (Spain, January 2012)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2012 > Gala (France, January 04-10, 2012)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2011 > Woman’s Own (United Kingdom, December 31, 2011)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2011 > Woman (United Kingdom, December 31, 2011)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2011 > Magasine La Vanguardia (Spain, December 18, 2011)

Three new videos have been added to the archives – a live interview with Fox2News from today, a backstage interview after winning the Golden Globe on “The Insider”, and a film excerpt from “The Iron Lady”. Edit: An interview with Good Day L.A. has been added as well. Then, Meryl has won the London Critics Circle Film Award as Best Actress (tying with Anna Paquin for, ironically, “Margaret). She has also won the Dorian Award as Film Performance of the Year and has received nominations for the Iowa Film Critics Award and the Australian Academy Cinema Television Arts as Best International Actress. Thanks to Frank for the heads-up.

Congratulations to Meryl for receiving a BAFTA nomination as Leading Actress for “The Iron Lady”. She shares the category with Bérénice Bejo (The Artist), Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn), Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin) and Viola Davis (The Help). The film scored a total of four nominations, including Best Supporting Actor (Jim Broadbent), Original Screenplay (Abi Morgan) and for Make-Up and Hair. The Hollywood Reporter has Meryl’s reaction on the nomination: “Thrilling thrilling news! Not just for me, but for the film of which I am very proud, and for the hundreds of people who worked on it! Thanks, from a (New) Jersey girl…” Jim Broadbent, nominated in the supporting actor category for his portrayal of Denis Thatcher opposite Streep, gave a very British reaction. Said Broadbent: “Really exciting news. I couldn’t be more excited that a film that was such fun to make, is getting this recognition. It’s fantastic for all of us and I can’t wait for the party!” The BAFTAs will be handed out on February 12, 2012.

Pictures and videos from the Golden Globes keep coming in, so here’s another update on last night’s big event. Videos of Meryl’s press room interview, a segment from Access Hollywood – and an interview on the Today Show, which was taped a day before the Golden Globes took place, have been added to the video archive.

Then, many additional pictures have been added to the Golden Globe galleries, have a look at the previews below.

Here’s the complete transcript of her speech: “Oh my God. Oh my God. Well, when Ricky Gervais’ deal fell through and they came to me to play Margaret Thatcher… (laughter). I can’t joke. This is such a thrill, but really, really embarrassing in a year that saw so many extraordinary performances by women in leading roles – by my friends, by people I don’t know. By people that I am so inspired by… Oh, shiii-it (points to her table), I’ve forgot my glasses. Oh, I’m gonna have to remember my speech (laughter). Okay, I’m gonna have to remember, but Glenn, Viola – oh my God I’m gonna leave people off – Michelle, Rooney, Gilda, yeah and how about Adepero Oduye, how about “Pariah” (applause)? How about Michelle, how about Mia Wasikowska in “Jane Eyre”? (applause). Fantastic! Tilda. Oh geez. Everybody I know I’m gonna leave you out. Anyone of these performances in any given year would have been a stand-out and an award winning peformance. But the fact that they all this year is really, really good news for all of us, because sometimes it seems that serious, challenging, weird movies are like exotic birds, near extinct birds, and every year a new flock flies in and somebody picks them up and gives them money and we get to see them. So, I just wanna thank my agent Kevin Huvane and God – Harvey Weinstein (laughter) – the punisher. Old testament, I guess? (laughter) Okay, I gotta thank everybody in England that let me come and trample all over their history. Especially, I’d like to thank Phyllida Lloyd (music starts to fade in) – oh, no! Abi Morgan, who wrote it, Damien Jones, who stayed with us for ten years. Oh, come on. All the cast and crew in England. We’ve made this for twenty-five cents in five minutes and I’m so proud of the film and I’m so, so, so grateful. And I love you, Viola. You’re my girl.

Lastly, lots of additional pictures from the Golden Globe Awards have been added to the image library. You can access all galleries below. Edit: Screencaptures from the ceremony have been added as well.