An Oscar race between two legends

The first time I saw this picture I did not recognize Glenn Close, a superb actress who will be returning to the big screen after devoting much of the last years to television, in a pet project, Albert Nobbs. This is a part she played on stage 30 years ago and has been battling to get it filmed ever since. She finally took matters into her own hands, writing the screenplay for this project and producing it herself.  An essay that looks at next year's best actress Oscar race is predicting it will boil down to a contest between Close and arguably the greatest screen actress of all time, Meryl Streep (left) as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady.