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'The Shape of Water' wins best picture as Oscars project diversity

Guillermo del Toro's outcast parable, The Shape of Water, was honoured as best picture, and del Toro won the best director Oscar

Guillermo Del Toro, oscar
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Guillermo Del Toro with the oscar award

Brooks Barnes & Cara Buckley | NYT Los Angeles
The 90th Academy Awards ceremony skittered between the serious and the silly on Sunday night, taking time both to acknowledge #MeToo and to hand out hot dogs at an adjacent movie theatre, but the show ultimately emerged as a powerful call for inclusion and diversity in Hollywood.

Guillermo del Toro’s outcast parable, The Shape of Water, was honoured as best picture, and del Toro won the best director Oscar. Jordan Peele collected the best original screenplay award for Get Out, a movie centered on racism in the liberal white suburbs. And Frances McDormand, winning best actress for her portryal