For many Oscar-watchers obsessed with actresses, it’s a match made in heaven (the Venn diagram is a circle). Julianne Moore And Tilda Swinton play the main role together Pedro Almodovar‘s upcoming English-language feature debut, The Room Next Door. Both women are Oscar winners — Almodóvar too — but it’s been a while since either of them competed for the Academy’s top honors. We’ll have more on the film after it premieres at the Venice Film Festival on September 2, but until then, how does it rank in the Oscar race?
The Room Next Door explores the friendship between Martha (Swinton) and Ingrid (Moore) and Martha’s falling out with her daughter. At the time of writing, the best hopes are for the actresses. Moore is in seventh place for Best Actress at odds of 20/1 based on the combined predictions of Gold Derby users. She has been nominated five times so far throughout her career, eventually winning for Still Alice (2014), but hasn’t been nominated since, although she probably came close to a Best Supporting Actress nomination last year for May December.
Swinton has now moved into the top 5 with odds of 14/1 for Best Supporting Actress, giving her a good chance of being nominated. And if she does manage to do so, it will be about time. Remarkably, she has only been in the running once, for “Michael Clayton” (2007), for which she won Best Supporting Actress. And that’s despite the fact that she has attracted attention for many of her performances since then, including “Burn After Reading” (2008), “I Am Love” (2009), “We Need to Talk About Kevin” (2011), “Snowpiercer” (2013) and “Suspiria” (2018), to name just a few. For “Kevin” she was nominated thisclose for an Oscar, received nominations for the Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards, BAFTA Awards and SAG Awards, but ultimately received no mention from the Academy.
In those races, The Room Next Door looks the best right now, but they’re not the only places where the film has potential. It’s currently in 14th place for Best Picture, just four spots away from an expected nomination. Almodóvar is ninth for Best Director. And he’s eighth for Best Adapted Screenplay; the famed Spanish filmmaker won his only Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Talk to Her (2002). We’ll likely see how his film and his actresses move in September — whether up or down.
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