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Meryl Streep has won an Oscar for Actress in a Leading Role for "The Iron Lady," marking her third Academy Award win and 17th nomination.

Streep beat nominees Glenn Close of "Albert Nobbs," Rooney Mara of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo," Viola Davis of "The Help" and Michelle Williams of "My Week With Marilyn." Check out a transcript of comments Streep made to the press backstage at the Academy Awards.

Angelina Jolie channeled Maleficent when she stepped out onto the red carpet at the Women in the World Summit in New York.

Check out photos from the event, which was also attended by Meryl Streep and America Ferrera.

Mamie Gummer, daughter of Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep, is splitting from Benjamin Walker.

Gummer, 29, and her husband Walker, 30, are calling it quits after nearly two years of marriage, according to People magazine.

In their latest film, "Hope Springs," Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones play a pair of empty nesters who are trying to bring the spark back into their marriage.

Streep says that it's often the women who are the ones who try fix relationships, but her character uncovers things in therapy she was not ready to handle.

Meryl Streep took the stage at the Women in Film annual Crystal + Lucy Awards to take movie studios to task for the underrepresentation of women in the entertainment industry and for not creating more films targeted to women.

Steep said there were "dreadful" statistics about women in the industry during the award ceremony on June 12 and, according to the Los Angeles Times, even criticized the studios for favoring tent-pole blockbusters that eventually flop.

"Bully" will be released unrated on March 30, despite a push from the distributor, The Weinstein Company, and celebrities like Johnny Depp and Meryl Streep to lower the rating from R to PG-13.

"Furthering proof that the R rating for some language is inappropriate for a film that's meant to educate and help parents, teachers, school officials and children with what's become an epidemic in schools around the country, the fight against the rating continues on," The Weinstein Company said in a statement obtained by OnTheRedCarpet.com.

Celebs like Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep and Ellen DeGeneres have rallied for the Motion Picture Association of America to lower the R rating of the 2012 film, "Bully."

The Lee Hirsch documentary depicts the troubling trend of bullying in schools across America and garnered the restricted rating due to the depiction of real-life language used by bullies.

Meryl Streep has reportedly donated $10,000 to a school in Rhode Island in honor of actress Viola Davis.

Streep donated the money to a struggling charter school called the Segue Institute for Learning in the Rhode Island city of Central Falls, Davis' hometown, according to Reuters. Upon hearing about the town's plight from Davis, Streep sent a $10,000 check to the school, which is facing closure.

Jessica Chastain of "The Help" praised Meryl Streep as "one of a kind," hours before the veteran actress took home her third Oscar.

Streep, 62, won the award for Actress in a Leading Role for her performance as UK leader Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady." Chastain, 30, was nominated for her first Oscar, for her supporting role in "The Help," but lost to co-star Octavia Spencer, 39.

Jimmy Kimmel's post-Oscars special, which followed Sunday's 2012 Academy Awards, featured a special video - the trailer for what was dubbed the "greatest movie ever made."

"Movie: The Movie" stars Meryl Streep, George Clooney, Tom Hanks, Martin Scorsese, Helen Mirren, Charlize Theron, Don Cheadle, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Samuel L. Jackson, Cameron Diaz, JJ Abrams, Jessica Biel, Jason Bateman, Tyler Perry, Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Ryan Philippe and others stars.

Meryl Streep has won an Oscar for Actress in a Leading Role for "The Iron Lady," marking her third Academy Award win and 17th nomination.

Streep beat nominees Glenn Close of "Albert Nobbs," Rooney Mara of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo," Viola Davis of "The Help" and Michelle Williams of "My Week With Marilyn." The winners of the 2012 Academy Awards were named at a Los Angeles ceremony on Sunday, February 26.

Sandra Bullock, Gwyneth Paltrow, Morgan Freeman and Owen Wilson are the latest celebrities named as presenters for the 2012 Academy Awards. The ceremony is set to feature more than 30 of them and will air on Sunday, February 26 on ABC.