At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.
- Won 4 Oscars
- 137 wins & 350 nominations total
Best Picture Winners by Year
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- TriviaDirector Guillermo del Toro said about Sally Hawkins, "Not only was she the first choice, she was the only choice. I wrote the movie for Sally, I wrote the movie for Michael [Shannon]... Sally is -- I wanted the character of Elisa to be beautiful, in her own way, not in a way that is like a perfume commercial kind of way. That you could believe that this character, this woman would be sitting next to you on the bus. But at the same time she would have a luminosity, a beauty, almost magical, ethereal."
- GoofsAfter Richard Strickland's children leave to get on the school bus, Strickland's wife Elaine states she wants to have sex upstairs, but the establishing shot of their house a few seconds earlier does not have a second story.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Giles: If I told you about her, what would I say? That they lived happily ever after? I believe they did. That they were in love? That they remained in love? I'm sure that's true. But when I think of her - of Elisa - the only thing that comes to mind is a poem, whispered by someone in love, hundreds of years ago: "Unable to perceive the shape of You, I find You all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with Your love, It humbles my heart, For You are everywhere."
- Crazy creditsThe opening credits roll over footage of a flooded apartment.
- ConnectionsFeatured in FoundFlix: The Shape of Water (2017) Ending Explained + Analysis (2017)
- SoundtracksYou'll Never Know
Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Mack Gordon
Performed by Renée Fleming & The London Symphony Orchestra
Arranged & Conducted by Alexandre Desplat
Recorded & Mixed by Jonathan Allen at Studio de la Grande Armée, Paris
Assistant: Ludovick Tartavel
Piano: Frédéric Gaillardet
Double Bass: Riccardo Del Fra
Drums: Jeff Boudreaux (as Jeffrey Boudreaux)
Bass Flute: Alexandre Desplat
Courtesy of Decca Music Group Limited
Under license from Universal Music Operations Ltd.
The bad man is reminiscent of Pan's Labyrinth villain and the main character a girl with an active imagination, but it is way slower and more poorly executed than Pan's. It is clearly a worse movie than that was. To put it mildly, I am at a loss for why this film won Best Picture. It was visually interesting, but you couldn't take it seriously. It went from metaphor to reality with no regard to the previous context. A villain that seemed to not have a purpose other than being obtuse and evil, a woman who after learning that the creature has bit two fingers off a man's hand goes near it and offers it food from her own hand, a black best friend who's only role is to gossip about her irrelevant husband, some Russian spies that seem more interested in food than in spying, the list goes on and on. It's not like the actors didn't do a good job, it's not that the direction or the sets were faulty, but the story itself was nothing more than a long slow cliche.
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- Mar 14, 2018
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- Also known as
- Người Đẹp và Thủy Quái
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- Budget
- $19,400,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $63,859,435
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $166,564
- Dec 3, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $195,243,464
- Runtime2 hours 3 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1