Meryl Streep ▲

Apex — Sophie's Choice (1982)

24,850 feet (Camp III)

51st highest of 105

An enduring, oft-rewatched summit, edging The Iron Lady.

The career, climbed — every film on the shared Everest scale; hover for detail

Filmography — by elevation

	Film	Year	Elevation
	Sophie's Choice ▲ apex	1982	25,202 ft
	The Iron Lady	2011	24,534 ft
	The Devil Wears Prada	2006	24,128 ft
	The Devil Wears Prada 2	2026	23,878 ft
	The River Wild	1994	23,569 ft
	Evil Angels	1988	23,523 ft
	The French Lieutenant's Woman	1981	23,482 ft
	Death Becomes Her	1992	23,436 ft
	Florence Foster Jenkins	2016	23,401 ft
	The Bridges of Madison County	1995	23,368 ft
	She-Devil	1989	23,309 ft
	Music of the Heart	1999	23,306 ft
	Hope Springs	2012	23,255 ft
	Mamma Mia!	2008	23,109 ft
	Silkwood	1983	23,043 ft
	Out of Africa	1985	22,998 ft
	Julie & Julia	2009	22,975 ft
	Doubt	2008	22,896 ft
	A Prairie Home Companion	2006	22,857 ft
	Ricki and the Flash	2015	22,722 ft
	Before and After	1996	22,709 ft
	Postcards from the Edge	1990	22,663 ft
	The Post	2017	22,649 ft
	It's Complicated	2009	22,612 ft
	...First Do No Harm	1997	22,608 ft
	Plenty	1985	22,531 ft
	August: Osage County	2013	22,517 ft
	Five Came Back	2017	22,506 ft
	Wings of Life	2011	22,504 ft
	Dancing at Lughnasa	1998	22,464 ft
	The House of the Spirits	1993	22,390 ft
	Heartburn	1986	22,342 ft
	To the Arctic 3D	2012	22,324 ft
	Marvin's Room	1996	22,249 ft
	Let Them All Talk	2020	22,235 ft
	Kramer vs. Kramer	1979	22,143 ft
	One True Thing	1998	22,046 ft
	Lions for Lambs	2007	21,973 ft
	Defending Your Life	1991	21,864 ft
	The Laundromat	2019	21,802 ft
	The Prom	2020	21,707 ft
	Still of the Night	1982	21,597 ft
	Into the Woods	2014	21,577 ft
	Prime	2005	21,539 ft
	The Manchurian Candidate	2004	21,514 ft
	Adaptation.	2002	21,499 ft
	The Giver	2014	21,418 ft
	The Hours	2002	21,309 ft
	Falling in Love	1984	21,295 ft
	Ironweed	1987	21,238 ft
	I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale	2009	21,027 ft
	The Seduction of Joe Tynan	1979	20,960 ft
	This Changes Everything	2019	20,955 ft
	Dark Matter	2008	20,848 ft
	Rendition	2007	20,807 ft
	Fantastic Mr. Fox	2009	20,740 ft
	Don't Look Up	2021	20,692 ft
	Manhattan	1979	20,541 ft
	The Deer Hunter	1978	20,486 ft
	Suffragette	2015	20,483 ft
	Everything Is Copy	2015	20,416 ft
	The Ant Bully	2006	20,406 ft
	Girl Rising	2013	20,374 ft
	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	2004	20,290 ft
	Julia	1977	20,238 ft
	Mary Poppins Returns	2018	20,205 ft
	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	2001	20,171 ft
	Evening	2007	20,169 ft
	The Homesman	2014	20,149 ft
	Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again	2018	20,148 ft
	Little Women	2019	20,146 ft
	Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds	2017	20,141 ft
	Hoppers	2026	20,141 ft
	Stuck on You	2003	20,139 ft
	Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen	2012	20,139 ft
	Project Hail Mary	2026	20,139 ft