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The Shape of Oscar

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Brett Alan Dewing
Mar 07, 2018
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By now you probably know: The Shape of Water  won this year’s Best Picture Oscar. A decade ago that news would have been inconceivable. There used to be something called “the Oscar movie”, a confection of epic wartime romance or such. The thought that a fantasy film about inter species romance could crack that tight group of oh-so-serious films would ha…

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