The Shape Of Water Oscars

Besides shape of water horror has also managed to nab a spot in the 2018 oscars lineup.

The shape of water oscars. Get the latest updates photos and videos for the 90th academy awards. Though it failed to win the awards. The shape of water is nominated for best picture for oscars 2018. The shape of water scooped four academy awards including best picture.

At a top secret research facility in the 1960s a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity. One day she comes across a fish tank with a creature in it that she can communicate with using american sign language asl. In addition to the awards listed here this was the first best picture oscar win by a major studio in three years birdman the previous such winner was produced by the same studio as this particular film 20th century fox. Towards the end of the show s third hour the shape of water picked up its second award of the night.

Directed by guillermo del toro. The shape of water bursts with humanity at its best in a story awash in the inhuman treatment of those who are different. Horror movies rarely get academy placement and the only one to win best picture was the silence of the lambs in 1992. With sally hawkins octavia spencer michael shannon doug jones.

Guillermo del toro marshals memories of american film from silent classics to 1930s musicals to 1950s horror films to create a visually stunning phantasmagorical romance that is both astonishingly new and echoes as a tale as old as time. The shape of water is a 2017 american romantic fantasy drama film directed by guillermo del toro and written by del toro and vanessa taylor. How did the shape of water a movie about a mute cleaning woman falling truly madly deeply in love with a fish man wind up winning the oscar for best picture. It stars sally hawkins michael shannon richard jenkins doug jones michael stuhlbarg and octavia spencer set in baltimore maryland in 1962 the story follows a mute cleaner at a high security government laboratory who falls in love with a captured.

Jordan peele s smash satire get out is vying for best picture too. It starts with the power of. The shape of water received acclaim with many critics declaring it del toro s best film since pan s labyrinth and particularly praising hawkins s performance.