Meryl Streep called Walt Disney sexist and racist? Yes she did.

The multi-award winning actress called out Walt Disney as both a "gender bigot" and "anti-semitic" while presenting the best actress prize to Emma Thompson at the National Board of Review awards in New York.

Meryl Streep joked about how surprised she is that she is not the one to receive an award but the one who will give it.

Meryl Streep had nothing but good words to say about Emma Thompson. According to the report by Variety, Meryl Streep delivered a nine-minute-long speech honoring Emma Thompson, calling her as "practically a saint." Streep also recited a poem she had personally written for Thompson titled "An Ode to Emma, or What Emma Is Owed."

But Meryl Streep seemed to have nothing but controversial remarks when she was talking about Walt Disney.

"Disney, who brought joy arguably to billions of people ... had some racist proclivities. He formed and supported an anti-Semitic industry lobbying group and he was certainly, on the evidence of his company's policies, a gender bigot," she said.

Meryl Streep then proceeded to read an excerpt from a 1938 letter from Disney rejecting a female applicant to the animation trainee program. "Women do not do any of the creative work in connection with preparing the cartoons for the screen, as that task is performed entirely by young men."

Thompson won the award for her performance as "Mary Poppins" author P.L. Travers in "Saving Mr. Banks." The film stars Tom Hanks as Disney, who sways Travers into giving him the rights to her work for a feature film adaptation.

Streep said, "When I saw the film, I could just imagine Walt Disney's chagrin at having to cultivate P.L. Travers' favor for the 20 years that it took to secure the rights to her work. It must have killed him to encounter in a woman an equally disdainful and superior creature, a person dismissive of his own considerable gifts and prodigious output and imagination."

Disney died in 1966 at the age of 65 after succumbing to lung cancer.