Guillermo del Toro checked for himself... 'The Shape of Water' wins Best Picture! https://t.co/77FIqKiQdT #Oscars pic.twitter.com/3vGxtAM8z8
— ABC News (@ABC) March 5, 2018
The Shape of Water, shot in Toronto and Hamilton and where most of the cast and crew are Canadian, won 4 Oscars last night at the 90th Academy Awards. The film from Guillermo del Toro won Best Picture with producer J. Miles Dale; del Toro for Best Director; Paul Austerberry, Jeff Melvin, and Shane Vieau for Production Design; and French composer Alexandre Desplat for Best Original Score.
The film received 13 nominations, 1 short of the all-time record. Other Canadians who were nominated for the film are sound editors Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira; sound mixers Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern, and Glen Gauthier; costume designer Luis M. Sequeira; and film editor Sidney Wolinsky.
"Thanks to all the Canadian crew who are partying right now at the Palais Royale in Toronto — this is for you," said Austerberry in accepting his Oscar.
"Other than Guillermo and the cinematographer and some of the actors, every single person on this film was Canadian and really kind of from Toronto — so it absolutely is I think unprecedented, frankly, in terms of the type of recognition," Dale said in an interview last week.
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Sally Hawkins, who was nominated for Best Actress from The Shape of Water, is also nominated for best actress for Maudie in next Sunday's Canadian Screen Awards.
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Lots of Canadians up for #Oscars again this year. Congratulations, good luck tonight and thank you for bringing your magic to the big screen.
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) March 4, 2018
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A Fantastic Woman from Chile won the Best Foreign Language Film. Canada has had a few nominations, though none lately, and a singular win, The Barbarian Invasions. The new Xavier Dolan film will be foreign, but will not be eligible for that Oscar category because the film is in English.
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