‘The Room Next Door’: Long-awaited Oscars return for Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton? Here’s what the odds say
It’s a match made in heaven for a lot of Oscar watchers who are obsessed with actresses (that Venn diagram is a circle). Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton star together in director Pedro Almodóvar‘s upcoming English-language feature film debut, “The Room Next Door.” Both women are Oscar winners — Almodóvar too — but it’s been a while since any of them have competed for the academy’s top honors. We’ll learn more about the film after it premieres at the Venice Film Festival on September 2, but until then, where does it stand in the Oscar race?
Exploring the friendship between Martha (Swinton) and Ingrid (Moore) and Martha’s rift with her daughter, “The Room Next Door’s” highest hopes as of this writing are for its actresses. Moore ranks seventh for Best Actress with 20/1 odds based on the combined predictions of Gold Derby users. She has been nominated five times throughout her career thus far, finally winning for “Still Alice” (2014), but she hasn’t been nominated since, though she probably came close to a Best Supporting Actress bid last year for “May December.”
Swinton, meanwhile, has shot up into the top five with 14/1 odds for Best Supporting Actress, putting her in position for a nomination. And if she does make the cut, it’s about damn time. Remarkably, she has only ever been in contention once, for “Michael Clayton” (2007), for which she won Best Supporting Actress. This despite generating awards buzz for many performances since, including “Burn After Reading” (2008), “I Am Love” (2009), “We Need to Talk About Kevin” (2011), “Snowpiercer” (2013) and “Suspiria” (2018), to name a few. For “Kevin,” she was thisclose to Oscar, earning noms from the Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards, BAFTA Awards and SAG Awards but ultimately not getting a mention from the academy.
Those are the races where “Room Next Door” looks strongest at the moment, but they’re not the only places where the film has potential. It currently ranks 14th for Best Picture, putting it just four slots shy of a predicted nomination. Almodóvar is ninth for Best Director. And he’s eighth for Best Adapted Screenplay; the famed Spanish filmmaker won his only Oscar for writing, Best Original Screenplay for “Talk to Her” (2002). We’ll likely see his film and his actresses start to move — whether up or down — in September.
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