Highlights From This Year's Academy Awards Show: Frances McDormand Leads the Way

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As we've heard, Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won Best Picture at the 90th Academy Awards. The film is about the very special relationship that develops between a mute woman (Oscar nominee Sally Hawkins) and a "fish man" at a secretive laboratory in 1962. Beyond its own qualities as a wondrously dramatic and romantic fantasy, The Shape of Water is also the first Best Picture winner since Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby to revolve around a female character. (In the earlier film, Hilary Swank portrayed a boxer seeking a new career; she won the Oscar as Best Actress.) Hawkins did not win an Oscar last night; instead, that honor went to Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), who created an instantly memorable highlight in...
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