Tag: The Shape of Water
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One Last Attempt to Predict the 2018 Academy Awards — IndieWire’s Movie Podcast
Oscar season may often seem like it’ll never end, but rest assured, there is a finish line — and this one’s just a few days away. The 2018 Academy Awards are some of the most unpredictable ones in ages, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few frontrunners. However, anyone keen on winning the office…
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Cool Stuff: ‘Shape Of Water’ Funko Pop Figures Include The Sexy Fish Man, And Also Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar nominated adult fairytale The Shape of Water is getting the Funko Pop treatment. Three new figures inspired by the film will be released: one representing Sally Hawkins‘ character Elisa, one representing Doug Jones‘ sexy-as-hell Amphibian Man, and one representing director del Toro himself. See the Shape of Water Funko Pop figures…
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Which Movies Should Win Oscars? Critics Weigh In on Academy Awards
By definition, the Oscars can’t please everyone. Come Sunday, one movie will win every category, and fans of the others will claim they were robbed. Pundits have made educated guesses about the frontrunners for weeks, but there’s often a difference between which movies will win and those that should, as IndieWire’s annual critics survey proves…
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‘Ready Player One’ Sets Day And Date Release in China
Steven Spielberg’s Alibaba Pictures-backed “Ready Player One” is to get a theatrical release in China on March 30.That is a day-and-date outing coordinated with the film’s debut in North America (March 29) and other international territories, some of which take it out from March 28.The picture will slide into the Chinese releasing calendar after “Black…
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Oscars: 7 Possible Upsets as Final Voting Comes to a Close
It’s 5 p.m. on the west coast, which means final voting for the 90th Oscars has come to a close. We’ll know the results on Sunday night, but now that ballots are in, how about some idle speculation about upsets? There are a number of categories that seem too comfortably sewn up going into the…
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Guillermo del Toro Reveals 3 Key Sally Hawkins Performances That Made Him Cast Her In ‘The Shape Of Water’
With two Oscar nominations under her belt — for “Blue Jasmine” and this year for her terrific performance in “The Shape Of Water” — Sally Hawkins could walk away on Sunday with a golden statue for her mantle. Her work is astonishing in Guillermo del Toro‘s wondrous romantic fantasy, even more because she does it…
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Who Should Win at Sunday’s Oscars? Cast Your Vote!
With under a week until Oscar night, Variety is polling readers to see their predictions on who will take home the top prizes.Though it’s unlikely any category will be as dramatic as last year’s best picture mix-up, the biggest night in film is still a competitive race.Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water,” which has…
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Oscars 2018: How ‘The Shape of Water’ Became a Costume and Sound Contender
After “The Shape of Water” upset “Phantom Thread” at the Costume Designer Guild Awards, there’s Oscar momentum for costume designer Luis Sequeira. And there might even be an upset in the sound effects or sound mixing categories, given the potential coattail effect for Guillermo del Toro’s Best Picture frontrunner. Academy members just might also be…
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Why The Shape of Water should win the 2018 best picture Oscar
Ahead of the 2018 Oscars, Cath Clarke argues that the quiet female steeliness at the heart of Guillermo del Toro’s fish-love fable should make the Academy rethink its aversion to fantasyGirl meets hot fish monster, falls in love, plots to break him out of a top-secret government research facility. On paper, Guillermo del Toro’s fantasy-sci-fi-romance-thriller…
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What Is the John C. Reilly Award, and How Did Michael Stuhlbarg Just Become the First Person to Win It in 15 Years?
John C. Reilly did something exceedingly rare back in 2002: appeared in three different Best Picture nominees. His roles in “Gangs of New York,” “Chicago,” and “The Hours” — all of which premiered within a week of each other — are now the basis for what FiveThirtyEight has appropriately dubbed the John C. Reilly Award,…