After Return of the King, which won Best Picture in 2003, The Shape of Water is the second «fantasy» genre film to win for Best Picture (leave your debate as to
if The Shape of Water is fantasy or science fiction in the comments — we're curious!).
But
if Shape of Water takes DGA, Lady Bird takes SAG, and Get Out takes PGA?
And here's the big one,
if The Shape of Water manages to win Best Picture, it will become the first film to win both the Lion and the BP Oscar.
Get Out, the winner, was seen as the favorite but there were also trumpets blared for Lady Bird «s last stand to stake a claim of a guild win (it did not) and then the creeping feeling that
if The Shape of Water is the Best Picture frontrunner then it winning WGA wouldn't be out of the blue and could signal a true lead.
If The Shape of Water wins Best Picture, it should win here.
Not exact matches
If «Dunkirk» does pull off the win, it could be a hint to how the night goes, as «The
Shape of Water» and «Dunkirk» are up against each other in numerous categories, including best picture.
Well, yeah... and I mean
if what someone is really trying to achieve with this is to reduce practices that in any way,
shape or form could indicate that someone bears them or their faith ill will... I don't think publicly humiliating people who would take the time to look up your dead ancestor's name and then take the time to drive to a temple and then get immersed in
water on their behalf so that they (by their belief) have the option to accept your religion post mortem is really misguided and contrary to the spirit
of freedom
of religion in what it advocates.
When the butter has formed small pea - sized crumbs, slowly pour the the ice - cold
water and rum in, a spoonful at a time, until a shaggy dough is formed which holds its
shape when you press it (
if necessary, add a teeny bit
of extra
water but try to use as little additional
water as possible).
Ingredients 3 Tbsp olive oil 1 small onion, diced 1 small zucchini, diced (about 1/2 cup) 1 small yellow squash, diced (about 1/2 cup) 2 small carrots, diced 1 - 2 celery stalks, diced 1/3 cup frozen lima beans 4 cloves garlic, minced 1 tsp dried parsley 1 tsp dried oregano 1 tsp dried basil 1/4 tsp black pepper 1/4 tsp dried thyme pinch
of red pepper flakes 2 bay leaves 2 Tbsp tomato paste 1 (15 oz) can reduced sodium diced tomatoes, with juices 2 (15 oz) cans vegetable broth * 3 cups hot
water 1 (15 oz) can Kidney beans, rinsed and drained 1 (15 oz) can Great Northern beans, rinsed and drained 2 cups kale, finely chopped (tough stems discarded) 1/2 cup small pasta
shape Pinch
of kosher salt,
if needed
If you are using multiple
shapes, cook them in one pot
of salted boiling
water starting with the pasta that takes the longest and adding
shapes per their recommended cook - time, with the quickest being added last.
It is perfectly fine to add in a bit
of water if you need the dough to come together more when forming it into a log, but just add enough so that you can press the dough into
shape.
That much power would melt the machine
if not for the insulation
of the silver doughnut -
shaped cylinder and gray rubber hoses that run cold
water through the machine.
It is possible to have a berg as high out
of water as it is deep below the surface; for
if we imagine a large, solid lump
of any regular
shape, which has a very small sharp high pinnacle in the center, the height above
water can easily equal the depth below.
If there is enough surfactant,
water would retain the
shape of droplets in oil, and vice versa.
Only the tips
of the
water icebergs can be seen, and the team performed calculations as
if they were spheres, a regular
shape that requires the shallowest volume
of liquid to float, to create conservative depth estimates, Trowbridge said.
And so far, the exoplanet, named Proxima Centauri b, is
shaping up to be quite Earth - like, roughly the mass
of our planet and in just the right place where,
if it has an atmosphere, liquid
water could exist on the surface.
Because
of their near - spherical
shape, the droplets meet the surface at a high angle — above 150 °
if the
water is sitting on a superhydrophobic surface.
The upward trajectory
of the air gives
shape to the towering cumulonimbus clouds, and
if the air is heavily laden with
water vapor, it adds mass to the clouds, as well.
So
if cyanobacteria are
shaping the temperature
of their growing patch
of the ocean to favor themselves over cold -
water critters, researchers want to know how they are doing it and what to expect next, says climate scientist Sebastian Sonntag
of the University
of Hamburg in Germany.
The evidence included sinuous gullies, branching networks
of valleys, and teardrop -
shaped mounds that looked as
if raging
water had swept past.
To create a conservative estimate
of the basin's depth, the team approached the
water icebergs as
if they were spherical in
shape, as such a body would only require a shallow body
of liquid in which to float.
If you are rather lean, well -
shaped and with a low percentage
of body fat, but you are can't achieve good vascularity, especially in the lower abdominal area,
water retention and excess sodium ions is the one to blame.
8 ounces
of elbow macaroni (check your box, because mine was 12 ounces), or your favorite
shaped pasta 2 ounces
of sundried tomatoes (
if dried: soak in hot
water till tender, and slice; but you may find them chopped in oil, which is delicious and with no need to soak) Fresh diced onion to taste, sauteed in olive oil, or I used dried minced onion 1 clove
of garlic, chopped (I always buy the jarred chopped garlic from the produce section) 1 pound
of ground beef, browned (I cook mine in bulk ahead
of time in the crockpot) 12 ounces
of tomato sauce (
if you have leftover pasta sauce, I would use that) 1 teaspoon
of dried basil Salt and pepper to taste
You will notice the stain that bleeds through is in a
shape of a streak as
if something splattered on the cabinets and then dripped down the front and it is the
shape of a splatter or spot) You will often find this most near cabinet doors located near the dishwasher or kitchen sink where there is more
water movement from washing dishes or emptying the dishwasher.
As Cooper Cronk sat the 10 - metre line, eyes
watering, nose bent out
of shape again, he must have wondered
if it was all still worth it.
If anything, as the romance heats up The
Shape of Water becomes more emotionally gripping; the abuse inflicted on the gentle merman hurts us simply watching it.
Yet
if you forget, for just a moment, about genre pedigree, what is it, really, that makes «The
Shape of Water» a «richer» film — or a better one — than «Get Out»?
If «The
Shape of Water» was the runaway winner, would it have hit a speed bump Sunday?
That last one is the only Oscar nominee still in the Top 10, although
if you scroll a little bit further down the charts you'll see a solid block
of Oscar nominees, from Best Picture winner The Shape Of Water at No. 12 to Best Supporting Actress winner I, Tonya at No. 19, filling out the Top 2
of Oscar nominees, from Best Picture winner The
Shape Of Water at No. 12 to Best Supporting Actress winner I, Tonya at No. 19, filling out the Top 2
Of Water at No. 12 to Best Supporting Actress winner I, Tonya at No. 19, filling out the Top 20.
Not unlike «Get Out,» «The
Shape of Water» offered up its own eerie supernatural tale
of minorities rising up against a brutal white oppressor — a 2018 movie in»60s Cold War drag, its themes driven home via passages
of exquisite
if strenuous lyricism and a few sadistic jolts
of violence.
I make my case for Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip) to get in
if Universal pushes hard and gets her out there and that this acting category could be the only that will have a POC represented (most notably, Octavia Spencer in The
Shape of Water and Mary J. Blige in Mudbound).
By the way,
if you could only see half a dozen movies between now and the end
of the year, you could hardly improve on the six narrative features that played both Venice and Telluride: Alexander Payne's big - idea satire «Downsizing,» which kicked off both festivals; Guillermo del Toro's terrific revisionist monster romance «The
Shape of Water»; «Weekend» and «45 Years» director Andrew Haigh's spare nouveau western «Lean on Pete»; Lebanon's «The Insult» and Israel's «Foxtrot»; and «Taxi Driver» writer Paul Schrader's best movie in at least two decades, «First Reformed.»
If we are talking female indomitability, I would rather cast my ballot for Sally Hawkins's intensely watchful performances as the deaf - mute cleaning woman in «The
Shape of Water» and the hobbled outsider artist in «Maudie.»
If we look at the nominees — Sally Hawkins («The
Shape of Water»), Frances McDormand («Three Billboards»), Margot Robbie («I, Tonya»), Saoirse Ronan («Lady Bird») and Meryl Streep («The Post»)-- Margot Robbie is the only one to check off all those boxes.
Really, though, it would be a huge upset to see any other film run away with this award, which was practically built for Reynolds Woodcock — though
if anybody has the power to snatch the prize away, it's Luis Sequeira and his perfectly tailored
Shape of Water silhouettes.
That would tip the scales in the favor
of that movie, just as it would
if Woody Harrelson got in for Three Billboards, as he did with the SAG nominations, or Michael Stuhlbarg for Call Me By Your Name or Michael Shannon for
Shape of Water.
If sumo wrestlers, haiku poetry, Kabuki theater, sushi, taiko drums (courtesy
of composer Alexandre Desplat («The
Shape of Water»), cherry blossoms, and symbolic mushroom clouds are your thing, however, you have come to the right place.
So,
if you have «The
Shape of Water» winning Picture and Director, it pays to have it win here too.
Even though The
Shape of Water led the field with 13 nominations and did well with the guilds, it was tough to imagine the fish sex movie would be a real contender at the world's stodgiest awards ceremony, even
if things have loosened up a bit in the last few years.
If you think it's high time that Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro joined fellow Mexican auteurs Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity) and Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman, The Revenant) in the Oscar winners circle, The
Shape of Water just may be the movie to do it.
It will be interesting to see
if the Oscars will follow suit and honor The
Shape of Water, considering that the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has only honored a fantasy film with its top prize once before, with The Lord
of the Ring: The Return
of the King's Best Picture win in 2004.
I could see why you would react that way to
Shape of Water because
if you think about it the romance is extremely weird.
If you're tastes are more... unconventional, there's 9 1/2 Weeks at the Grand Illusion and, in wide release, The
Shape of Water, Phantom Thread, and Fifty Shades Freed.
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Listen carefully to the score from The
Shape of Water and it feels as
if you're underwater in that magical world.
The
Shape of Water breaks a 7 - year record that could have stayed intact
if Bening and co. had gone for a controversial, more obscure title.
If you still haven't seen The
Shape of Water, you can now fix that for half the price.
If these predictions are correct, «The
Shape of Water» will lead all films with six nominations, and «Big Little Lies» and «Will and Grace» will be the top TV nominees with five.
Supporting Actress Alison Janney, I Tonya < — frontrunner Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird < — getting a push Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread < —
if they want to «give the movie something» Octavia Spencer,
Shape of Water Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
If even 2000
of them liked five films better than The
Shape of Water (which has an excellent ensemble cast and there was no good reason to leave it out) then that might not be the green light everyone is hoping for.