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The Shape of Water gets people’s vote for best picture Oscar, according to poll
Guillermo del Toro, director of cold-war-era fantasy romance, is the pick for best director, and Gary Oldman and Frances McDormand for acting Oscars, poll finds
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While Oscar voters have until the end of Tuesday to vote for their favourites, The Shape of Water is feeling the love from audiences.
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In a poll of more than 7,000 movie-goers conducted by movie-ticket site Fandango.com exclusively for USA TODAY, the cold-war-era fantasy romance between a silent woman and a fish-man would be their choice to win best picture at the Academy Awards.
The movie starring Sally Hawkins and Octavia Spencer ranked No. 1 with 19 per cent of film lovers who say they’ve seen all nine nominated pictures, overtaking the two highest-grossing films in the best-picture race, second world war drama Dunkirk (with 17 per cent) and social thriller Get Out (16 per cent).
The dark comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri placed fourth (14 per cent), followed by Winston Churchill biopic Darkest Hour (10 per cent), coming-of-age film Lady Bird (9 per cent), Pentagon Papers thriller The Post (9 per cent), love story Call Me by Your Name (4 per cent) and couture fashion drama Phantom Thread (2 per cent).
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A melding of creature feature and heartfelt love story, The Shape of Water “is just a movie that’s on everybody’s list”, says Fandango.com managing editor Erik Davis. He says the movie has “a good shot” at winning. “The film is really beautiful and lovely, and it’s uplifting in a way that audiences are really looking for right now.”
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The Shape of Water filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is also the poll’s pick for best director with 31 per cent. “He’s a director that a lot of people have been rooting for a very long time,” Davis says. Dunkirk’s Christopher Nolan was second (29 per cent), Get Out’s Jordan Peele placed third (23 per cent), Lady Bird’s Greta Gerwig came in fourth (14 per cent) and Phantom Thread’s Paul Thomas Anderson was fifth (3 per cent).
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