Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘The Shape Of Water’ Faces New Plagiarism Accusation

You can always expect smear campaigns to arise every Oscar season, after all, the nasty feuding for awards love is nothing new in Hollywood.

“Saving Private Ryan” dealt with it in 1998 when it was accused of erasing British presence in the opening D-Day combat, there was the complete scrub of homosexuality in “A Beautiful Mind,” “Slumdog Millionaire” severely underpaying its Indian child actors, “Zero Dark Thirty,” supposedly, promoting torture and how can we forget last year’s “La La Land,” which was accused of not being an authentic enough portrayal of Jazz and for being “too white.” If you’re the awards season front runner, you can expect some extra heat.

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