Not exact matches
The 39 - year -
old was awarded the honor for his horror film, Get Out, beating out The Big Sick, Lady Bird, The
Shape of Water, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
The
Shape of Water feels very much in tune with them and on this occasion he taps into the Cold War paranoia
of America while also recognising the psyche that plagued the country during the secrecy
of the Roswell incident and pays homage to the
old Hollywood monster movies
of yesteryear.
56 - year
old Frenchman Alexandre Desplat is nominated for his work on two scores — director Guillermo Del Toro's critically acclaimed monster movie romance «The
Shape of Water,» and director Luc Besson's epic space fantasy «Valerian and the City
of a Thousand Planets» — and is one
of the five nominees for Composer
of the Year.
The
Shape of Water takes the creature feature
of old and does its best to craft a romantic drama that celebrates diversity in tangible and intangible ways.
BEST DIRECTOR 2017: Guillermo del Toro, The
Shape of Water 2016: Barry Jenkins, Moonlight 2015: George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road 2014: Richard Linklater, Boyhood 2013: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity 2012: Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty 2011: Terrence Malick, The Tree
of Life 2010: (TIE) Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan; David Fincher, The Social Network 2009: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker 2008: Gus Van Sant, Milk 2007: Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, No Country for
Old Men 2006: Paul Greengrass, United 93 2005: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain 2004: Alexander Payne, Sideways 2003: Peter Jackson, The Lord
of the Rings: The Return
of the King 2002: Todd Haynes, Far From Heaven
A tale as
old as time but with far less animated household objects, «The
Shape of Water» is a romance, a love story between Elisa, a mute woman who falls in love with Amphibian Man, the newest source
of fear & curiosity in the 1950's government run facility where she works.
2017 - The
Shape of Water - 4 2016 - Moonlight - 3 2015 - Spotlight - 2 2014 - Birdman - 4 2013 - 12 Years a Slave - 3 2012 - Argo - 3 2011 - The Artist - 5 2010 - The King's Speech - 4 2009 - The Hurt Locker - 6 2008 - Slumdog Millionaire - 8 2007 - No Country for
Old Men - 4 2006 - The Departed - 4 2005 - Crash - 3 2004 - Million Dollar Baby - 4 2003 - The Lord
of the Rings: The Return
of the King - 11 (clean sweep) 2002 - Chicago - 6 2001 - A Beautiful Mind - 4
The 23 year
old Carlow actress will go up against Sally Hawkins (The
Shape of Water), Frances McDormand (Three Billboards), Margot Robbie (I, Tonya) and the legendary Meryl Streep for The Post.
Whether or not they all work, you can't help but notice a very specific visual eye with The
Shape of Water taking inspiration from the
old creature features.
Ultimately, this battle over the identity
of «Oscar bait» may end up being won or lost according to whether both The Post and The
Shape of Water — woozy marriages between
old - school craft and new - school wokeness — earn their expected nods.
This year's best picture Oscar, after all, went for the first time to a science - fiction film
of sorts, Guillermo del Toro's adoring monster - movie homage The
Shape of Water — beating, among others, Get Out, Jordan Peele's wickedly playful collision
of old - school horror with brisk, bracing racial politics.
Always a spirited devotee
of old - school Hollywood genres, Guillermo del Toro achieves in his latest film, «The
Shape of Water,» an inspired melding
of creature feature, spy thriller and wondrously perverse love story, the latter sustained by Sally Hawkins» achingly delicate performance as Eliza, a mute cleaning lady who immediately bonds with the imprisoned merman (played, naturally, by Del Toro's prosthetic - happy muse, Doug Jones).
A watery romance that's a cross between a fable, a fairy tale, and a fantasy, The
Shape of Water is both a tribute to
old Hollywood and an allegory about those on the margins
of society, set in 1960s Baltimore during the height
of the Cold War.
And yet I keep coming back to The
Shape of Water, which seems sort
of like a bridge between
old and new, between classical style and socially relevant storytelling.
Guillermo del Toro's fantastical fable «The
Shape of Water,» which fuses an
old - fangled love
of Hollywood films
of yesteryear with a timely message
of inclusion and tolerance, led the field with 13 nominations.
When the two
of them are together, The
Shape of Water needs nothing else but the boiled egg she offers to him to eat and the
old songs she plays for the two
of them.
The
Shape of Water has all the makings
of a Best Picture — cinematic beauty, love for
old Hollywood, a romance (even if it's a sort
of odd one)-- but it has only taken home the Producers Guild award.
In an interview with THR for The
Shape of Water — a romantic fairy tale about a woman (Sally Hawkins) and amphibious humanoid (Doug Jones) set in 1960s Baltimore — del Toro revealed that the film's inspiration was drawn from the happier ending he imagined for The Creature from the Black Lagoon since he first saw the film as a 7 - year -
old.
For «The
Shape of Water,» more than 50 %
of the audience is under 35 years
old, and 60 % is female.
Hayek concluded her remarks by calling for more «equality, diversity, inclusion and intersectionality,» which were celebrated throughout the evening, from the visibility
of Latino projects («The
Shape of Water,» «Coco» and «A Fantastic Woman») and transgender artists (the actress Daniela Vega and the documentarian Yance Ford) to glorious appearances from such veterans Eva Marie Saint, Rita Moreno and screenwriter James Ivory, who became the
oldest Oscar winner in history when he won the award for best adapted screenplay.
The 53 - year -
old filmmaker was awarded Best Director
of a Motion Picture for helming «The
Shape of Water» - his first Golden Globe - at the ceremony at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, but while he was in full swing the orchestra started playing, so he asked them to stop.
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