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Horror’s Wins at the 2018 Academy Awards; ‘The Shape of Water’ Wins Best Picture!
We’re hoping this page is full by the end of the night.
No matter who wins or loses, the fact remains that this year’s Academy Awards are pretty important for the horror genre. It’s no secret that the Academy very rarely honors genre cinema with so much as nominations, so the fact that Get Out, a horror movie, and The Shape of Water, a creature feature, each have several nominations is a big deal.
Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water is nominated in THIRTEEN categories, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Leading Actress and Best Supporting Actor. As for Get Out, Jordan Peele’s social horror film has nabbed four nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Leading Actor and Best Screenplay.
Yes, two genre films are nominated for Best Picture, which is HUGE.
As if all that wasn’t awesome enough, even Jordan Vogt Roberts’ Kong: Skull Island is up for an Oscar, nominated for Best Achievement in Visual Effects.
But which of these films actually won? We’ll update throughout the night!
Best Production Design – The Shape of Water
Best Original Screenplay – Get Out
Best Original Score – The Shape of Water
Best Director – Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
Best Picture – The Shape of Water
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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