2 Clarice Starlings up against each other at this year’s Golden Globes

This year’s Golden Globe nominees for Best Film Supporting Actress are Emily Blunt (“Oppenheimer”), Danielle Brooks (“The Color Purple”), Jodie Foster (“Nyad”), Julianne Moore (“May December”), Rosamund Pike (“Saltburn”), and Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“The Holdovers”). Two of them in particular, Foster and Moore, happen to have something in common. It’s not just the fact that they’re both previous Oscar winners contending for Netflix releases this year. It’s actually the fact that they’ve both taken on the role of Clarice Starling in separate films adapted from novelist Thomas Harris‘s Hannibal Lecter series.

In 1991’s “The Silence of the Lambs” directed by Jonathan Demme, Foster played Clarice, who was assigned by the FBI to interview and profile deranged killer Lecter (Anthony Hopkins). The film was a huge critical and commercial hit upon release that February, so much so that 13 months later it won five Academy Awards including Best Picture. Foster also won her second Best Actress Oscar following her prior victory for “The Accused” (1988).

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In 2001’s “Hannibal” directed by Ridley Scott, Foster didn’t reprise her role as Clarice, so Julianne Moore took over. The film followed her as she attempted to apprehend Lecter (Hopkins) before his surviving victim, Mason Verger (Gary Oldman), captures him. Despite being a commercial hit, “Hannibal” sadly didn’t live up to the critical or awards success of its predecessor.

This year Foster and Moore are both back in the awards race. Foster is in contention at the Globes for her performance as Bonnie Stoll, best friend and coach to world-class athlete Diana Nyad (Annette Bening) in “Nyad.” If she is Oscar-nominated for this performance, it would be her first since her Best Actress bid for “Nell” (1994).

Meanwhile, Moore is in contention for her performance as a controversial woman loosely inspired by Mary Kay Letourneau in Todd Haynes‘s latest film, “May December.” If she is Oscar-nominated, it would be her first since finally winning Best Actress for “Still Alice” (2014). And if both are up against each other all season long, Hannibal Lecter fans may be saying the same thing Brendan Fraser said at the beginning of his Oscar acceptance speech last year, “So this is what the multiverse looks like?”

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