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A makeup-free Streep and a curtain of blond hair

breeze into the after-party for the premiere of The Seduction of Joe Tynan in Rockefeller Plaza, 1979.

 Cute date, Meryl: Streep's main squeeze at

the 51st Academy Awards in 1979, where she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress

for her work in The Deer Hunter, is hubby Don Gummer, but it's the actress' cheeks that really light up the room.

Listen, Woody…Streep lays down the law

in 1979's Manhattan. Proving her appeal to members of both sexes, Streep's character shacks up with a woman.

Meryl Streep and Kramer vs. Kramer co-star Dustin Hoffman

put their differences aside (that custody battle was so worth it) and

check their reflections in their new prizes—Best Actress and Best Actor awards, respectively

—at the 1980 Academy Awards.

Even in the midst of a bitter legal dispute,

Streep, in Kramer vs. Kramer, looks luminous.

 Streep slips into a comprising position

in The French Lieutenant's Woman in 1981. Besides chalking up a third Oscar nomination,

Streep's greatest feat in the movie may have been playing opposite Jeremy Irons' sideburns.

Not one for showing a lot of skin on the red carpet,

Streep's décolletage gives off a golden glow in 1982's Sophie's Choice. The other golden glow?

The Best Actress Oscar Streep took home for the role.

 Step aside, Julia Roberts. Streep (pictured here with

co-star Kurt Russell) played the Erin Brockovich prototype in 1983's Silkwood, garnering her

a Best Actress nomination and a wig we're pretty sure she didn't keep.

In what may be the sexiest cinematic non-shower shower

scene ever, Robert Redford gets Streep all lathered up in Out of Africa, 1985.

 Sixty what? Streep shows there's nothing to hide under

her Doubt habit and opts for a nuns-would-not-approve number at the Golden Globe Awards on January 11.

Up next: the 81st Annual Academy Awards.

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