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Bringing an end to one of the most wide open best picture races in years, «The Shape of Water» — a fantastical fable about a mute woman who falls in love with an aquatic creature — claimed the top prize Sunday night at the 90th Academy Awards, beating out a strong field of eight rivals that included box office hits such as «Dunkirk» and «Get Out» as well as smaller, more intimate fare such as «Call Me By Your Name» and «Lady Bird.»

Guillermo Del Toro's «The Shape of Water» took home the top prize at the 90th Academy Awards in what was considered one of the most wide open best picture races in years.

While retrospect makes the outcome look predictable, it was surely one of the closer Best Picture races in Oscar history.

Bringing an end to one of the most wide open best picture races in years, «The Shape of Water» — a fantastical fable about a mute woman who falls in love with an aquatic creature — claimed the top prize Sunday night at the 90th Academy Awards, beating out...

One of the tightest Best Picture races in quite some time.

It appears that Las Vegas oddsmakers are not in total agreement with movie experts, as the online gambling site Bovada actually has Three Billboards (20/23) as the odds - on bet to win the Best Picture race over the likes of The Shape of Water (7/5), Get Out (11/2), and Lady Bird (14/1).

That's all to the good; I don't think it's an accident that the first wide - open Best Picture race in decades coincides with the fact that a quarter of voting members have joined since 2014, and that a far lower percentage of them are straight, white male American elders than is the case with the other 75 percent of voters.

Predicted Winner: The writing categories mirror the competitiveness of the Best Picture race — swing a dead cat and you'll hit a worthy winner!

Not since the 1999 face - off between Shakespeare in Love and Saving Private Ryan has the Best Picture race felt this close.

In the Best Picture race, the biggest hits were the World War II flick «Dunkirk,» which last year grossed around $ 188 million in U.S.ticket sales, good for 14th place on the box office charts, and Jordan Peele's horror film «Get Out,» which tucked in just below «Dunkirk» with $ 176 million in domestic sales.

In 2016, Amazon Studios released Manchester By the Sea to theaters, bringing the company that started out as a bookseller in 1996 into the best picture race at this year's Oscars.

Given the front - runner status of Mr. Boyle «Äôs «ÄúSlumdog Millionaire «Äù in the best picture race, it was hard not to see a little bit of good - natured concession in the moment.

All in all, it's fairly exciting to have so many films driven by strong women headed straight for the Best Picture race.

The movie's inclusion in the Best Picture race gives the star (and co-writer of the movie) some extra heft, but I suspect voters won't give him enough credit for the performance, since he's playing a version of himself.

I think the only thing we can all agree on without any disagreement is that Pixar is not getting into the Best Picture race.

However, a preferential ballot offers a cavalcade of complications that need to be considered and in hindsight, it's clear that The Revenant was terribly vulnerable and what lessons there are for this forthcoming and, indeed, every Best Picture race as long as this voting system is retained.

Hoffman's masterful display of talent in The Master is also undeniable, and as that film's divisive reaction makes it a lesser player in the Best Picture race, many of its admirers will likely look to the acting categories to show their appreciation.

By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Oscar's Best Picture race has a new frontrunner, it would appear.

Now THIS race, the Best Picture race, is not completely shewn up quite yet.

Female driven films used to drive the box office, and those films, in turn, often showed up in the Best Picture race.

Jason Reitman's Juno, they tell us, is a possible spoiler in the Best Picture race, but few seem to think its director stands a chance of winning here.

This year's Best Picture race is a wild one, filled with early contenders to emerging favorites to unexpected hits and just about everything in between.

The same would hold true of a Lead Actor bid for Boseman — though James Brown is an enormously compelling real - life figure whose life is replete with the material that wins actors awards, the Best Actor race more than any other acting category is closely tied to the Best Picture race, and Boseman will likely struggle against competitors in stronger films overall.

• This week's Off the Carpet column pondered the presence of money - spinners in this year's Best Picture race.

Women in Love (which received key marquee nods and critical support) and Ryan's Daughter (4 nominations and public enthusiasm) surely would have also been nominated for a 7 wide Best Picture race.

What if the story of this year's Best Picture race changed from old (The King's Speech) vs. new (The Social Network) to crowd - pleasing royals (The King's Speech) vs. crowd - pleasing commoners (The Fighter)?

How the Best Picture race is shaped is going to depend on which Oscar race they want to...

This year's Best Picture race is wide open except for the film right at the top of the list and that continues to be Richard Linklater's Boyhood.

The 10 - strong best picture race also includes «The Fighter,» «The Town,» «Toy Story 3» and «Winter's Bone.»

This is an important win for the film considering that this Best Picture race is more slippery than we've seen in the past few years.

«The Shape of Water,» Guillermo del Toro's striking, sensual fantasy film, won the Producers Guild of America's top honor Saturday night at the PGA Awards, cementing its place as one of the front - runners of this year's wide - open Oscar best picture race.

What You Need To Know: On the slim off - chance that you've heard none of the deafening buzz surrounding Steve McQueen «s «Hunger» and «Shame» follow - up (which also stars Michael Fassbender), let's get to it: by all accounts (our own included), lead Chiwetel Ejiofor is anything from a good bet to a surefire winner for this year's Best Actor Oscar, with the film itself a likely player in the Best Picture race and any number of the other actors (Fassbender foremost among them) potentially primed for Supporting Actor nod.

If Sixel doesn't win it likely means only a very hardcore group of members got it into the Best Picture race.

There is nothing more thrilling than having a dark film like Gone Girl in the Best Picture race from my perspective.

There are two things keeping cinematic ladies away from the Best Picture race: female - centric films aren't getting the same level of successful campaigning for the top prizes, obviously, and roles that * could * go to women are going, instead, to men.

2006 was the most open Best Picture race in years, actually.

«The Big Short's» Adam McKay or «Spotlight's» Tom McCarthy giving their films a leg up in the Best Picture race with a win?

The Oscar pundits over at Gold Derby (of which I am one) certainly believe it's possible that the ensemble comedy — led by «SNL» standouts Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph — could get into the Best Picture race when nominations are revealed early next year.

For the first time in years, we've got a three - horse Best Picture race, between The Revenant, The Big Short and Spotlight after they each took key industry wins.

Depending on how you see the Best Picture race, Peele is probably 2nd or 3rd at the moment with The Shape of Water's Guillermo del Toro as the frontrunner.

But he certainly can't be refering to this year's Best Picture race — while there may still be a scattering of homophobes alarmed by the relatively polite «Milk,» it's hard to see how any of this year's contenders could seriously ruffle feathers in the industry, or in society at large.

We're barreling towards the last gasp here for the Best Picture race and a few questions remain.

Essentially, in my opinion the Best Picture race currently comes down to a battle of the biggest blocks in the Academy: the Actors branch and the combined below - the - line branches (Costumes, Cinematography, Production Design, etc.).

What the NBR is good for: sussing out how the Best Picture race might take shape.

Winner: Alicia Vikander, «The Danish Girl» Should win: Jennifer Jason Leigh, «The Hateful Eight» Upset player: Kate Winslet, «Steve Jobs» Nightmare win: Rachel McAdams, «Spotlight» (love her but she's not even the fourth best performance in the movie) Lowdown: The pundits have been fishing for a category that might provide an upset and if the Best Picture race wasn't so tight there would be more think pieces about this race than you can shake a stick at.

These six films have divided and conquered awards group all across the land in what is perhaps the most exciting Best Picture race in a decade.

And when that movie swept the Best Picture race in the 2012 - 13 season, he was up on stage to accept with partner Grant Heslov and director Ben Affleck.

We talk about why we still think, more than ever, that it is the film to beat in the Best Picture race.

It has been said that the only really exciting Oscar races are those with a wide open Best Picture race.

If I had a say in the Best Picture race, my vote would go to Hugo.