Oscar switch!: Tilda Swinton (‘The Room Next Door’) will now compete as Best Actress, not as Best Supporting Actress
We’re making a major switch in our Gold Derby Oscars 2025 predictions center. Previous Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton will now be in the Best Actress category for “The Room Next Door” instead of Best Supporting Actress, where she had 15/2 odds in fourth place. She will now be in a leading category with her co-star Julianne Moore, also a previous Oscar champ, who is currently in ninth place with 30/1 odds. It will take a few days or even weeks before we truly get a better picture of how Swinton starts to do when moving up the predictions chart.
According to the press release from Sony Pictures Classics, “The film follows Ingrid (Moore) and Martha (Swinton), who were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.”
The Pedro Almodovar film is his first feature completely in the English language. It won the top award of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival on September 7. The jury was headed up by French actress Isabelle Huppert. Last year’s Golden Lion winner was “Poor Things,” which went on to 11 Oscar nominations and a win for Emma Stone as Best Actress.
Moore is a previous Best Actress winner for “Still Alice” (2014). Swinton won her Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in “Michael Clayton” (2007).
The film “The Room Next Door” will arrive in select theaters on December 20. Watch the SPC teaser trailer below.
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