The Shape-Shift of Water
Guillermo del Toro’s Best Picture nominee was shot in Toronto — but thanks to the magic of visual effects, you’d never know it
Now you see it: Best Actress nominee Sally Hawkins in a scene filmed in Toronto’s Port Lands. The bottom photo shows the same scene after Toronto visual effects studio Mr. X digitally removed the city’s distinctive skyline. Story,
The Shape of Water leads the Oscars field with 13 nominations. Dunkirk and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri were also among the top nominees with eight and seven nominations, respectively. The Academy Awards ceremony will be held in Hollywood on Sunday, March 4. Jimmy Kimmel returns as host. Best Picture: Call Me by Your Name; Darkest Hour; Dunkirk; Get Out; Lady Bird; Phantom Thread; The Post; The Shape of Water; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Actor: Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name; Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread; Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out; Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour; Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Actress: Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water; Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; Margot Robbie, I, Tonya; Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird; Meryl Streep, The Post.
Supporting Actor: Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project; Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water; Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World; Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Supporting Actress: Mary J. Blige, Mudbound; Allison Janney, I, Tonya; Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread; Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird; Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water.
Directing: Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan; Get Out, Jordan Peele; Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig; Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson; The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro.
Foreign Language Film: A Fantastic Woman, Chile; The Insult, Lebanon; Loveless, Russia; On Body and Soul, Hungary; The Square, Sweden.
Adapted Screenplay: Call Me By Your Name, The Disaster Artist, Logan, Molly’s Game, Mudbound.
Original Screenplay: The Big Sick; Get Out; Lady Bird; The Shape of Water; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Animated Feature Film: The Boss Baby, The Breadwinner, Coco, Ferdinand, Loving Vincent.
Production Design: Beauty and the Beast, Blade Runner 2049, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, The Shape of Water.
Cinematography: Blade Runner 2049, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, Mudbound, The Shape of Water.
Sound Mixing: Baby Driver, Blade Runner 2049, Dunkirk, The Shape of Water, Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Sound Editing: Baby Driver, Blade Runner 2049, Dunkirk, The Shape of Water, Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Original Score: Dunkirk, Hans Zimmer; Phantom Thread, Jonny Greenwood; The Shape of Water, Alexandre Desplat; Star Wars: The Last Jedi, John Williams; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Carter Burwell.
Original Song: “Mighty River” from Mudbound; “Mystery Of Love” from Call Me by Your Name; “Remember Me” from Coco; “Stand Up For Something” from Marshall; “This Is Me” from The Greatest Showman.
Documentary Feature: Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, Faces Places, Icarus, Last Men in Aleppo, Strong Island.
Documentary (short subject): “Edith+Eddie,” “Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405,” “Heroin(e),” “Knife Skills,” “Traffic Stop.”
Film Editing: Baby Driver; Dunkirk; I, Tonya; The Shape of Water; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Makeup and Hairstyling: Darkest Hour, Victoria & Abdul, Wonder.
Animated Short Film: “Dear Basketball,” “Garden Party,” “Lou,” “Negative Space,” “Revolting Rhymes.”
Live Action Short Film: “DeKalb Elementary,” “The Eleven O’Clock,” “My Nephew Emmett,” “The Silent Child,” “Watu Wote/All of Us.”
Visual Effects: Blade Runner 2049, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Kong: Skull Island, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, War for the Planet of the Apes.
Costume Design: Beauty and the Beast, Jacqueline Durran; Darkest Hour, Jacqueline Durran; Phantom Thread, Mark Bridges; The Shape of Water; Luis Sequeira; Victoria & Abdul, Consolata Boyle.