Ever since 2009, when the Academy expanded the number of best picture nominees from five to 10 following the failure of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight to register with voters the previous year, the Oscars has been waiting for a breakout genre movie. Now, suddenly, it has two: Guillermo del Toro’s whimsical period-fantasy The Shape of Water, which took best picture, and Jordan Peele’s satirical horror Get Out, which picked up best original screenplay.
You might even argue that Frances McDormand’s tour de force performance as a grieving mother in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri should also count towards the genre movie’s trophy count, so heavily does the Coen brothers alumnus channel that titan of the western John Wayne. And then there is Roger Deakins’ belated honour in the best cinematography category for his outstanding work on the otherwise largely overlooked Blade Runner 2049.
Oscars voters seem to be looking more sympathetically at the work of genre film-makers than at any time since 2004, when Peter Jackson was garlanded with the best-picture prize for the final instalment in his epic Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Return of the King.
Source : theguardian
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