Meryl Streep celebrates 20th Oscar nomination with hilarious gif

Meryl Streep celebrated making Oscars history by posting a hilarious gif.

The US actress scooped her 20th Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of Florence Foster Jenkins in the film of the same name on Tuesday.

To celebrate the Best Actress nod, Streep shunned a written statement in favour of a gif of herself dancing.

The gif, which shows Streep dancing on the spot, is from Paul McCartney’s 2013 music video for his song, Queenie Eye.

Streep has received sixteen Best Actress nominations and four for Best Supporting Actress during her career.

The latest nomination comes a week after President Donald Trump branded her “over-rated”.

Mr Trump hit out at the actress on Twitter after she made an impassioned speech about him at the Golden Globes.

Without directly mentioning Mr Trump’s name, Streep referenced the time he appeared to mock a New York Times reporter for his disability.

“There was one performance this year that stunned me,” she said.

“It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter.

“Someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can’t get it out of my head, because it wasn’t in a movie. It was real life.”

She continued: “And this instinct to humiliate, when it’s modelled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life, because it kinda gives permission for other people to do the same thing.

“Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose.”

Mr Trump tweeted: “Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn't know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes. She is a Hillary flunky who lost big.

“For the 100th time, I never ‘mocked’ a disabled reporter (would never do that) but simply showed him ‘grovelling’ when he totally changed a 16 year old story that he had written in order to make me look bad. Just more very dishonest media!”

The 89th Academy Awards will be held on February 26.

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