Why not Meryl Streep?

Why not? Easy. She's not black, indigenous, or ethnic.

Meryl Streep Isn’t on Our List of Greatest Actors. Here’s Why. The Times’s co-chief film critics explain their rationale for some surprising inclusions, and exclusions, on their list of the greatest actors of the 21st century (so far).

There are few better ways to court the internet’s ire than to publish a list ranking the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century that does not include the words “Meryl” or “Streep.”