Written by Tom Deehan on Mar 5, 2018. Posted in Awards and Festivals / General Interest

Oscars 2018: Ontario-shot, The Shape of Water, takes home Best Picture

After scoring 13 nominations, Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water took home four Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Production Design. Shot in Ontario over a two and a half month period, the production made extensive use of the province’s period architecture to recreate 1960s Baltimore.

When TLG spoke to J. Miles Dale, Producer of The Shape of Water, he explained: “Massey Hall (exterior) and Elgin Theatre (interior) were used for their magnificent design and intricate detail. So was Lakeview Lunch as a period appropriate diner, the exterior of the University of Toronto’s Scarborough campus for its brutalist architecture, Hamilton Sand Piles for its visual uniqueness and Hamilton City Hall for its specific period correctness to the time frame of the film. Keating Channel was also used for its water access and view of the Gardiner Expressway.”

A 35% tax credit can be awarded to domestic productions that film within the province, increasing to 40% in the event of first-time producers. Foreign productions receive a smaller rate of 21.5% when shooting locally.

Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell were recognised for their roles in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, winning Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor respectively. Despite the film’s titular location, Three Billboards was actually shot in North Carolina.

In a previous interview with TLG, North Carolina Film Commissioner Guy Gaster detailed: “the two main locations were Main Street in Sylva and an isolated road outside of Black Mountain (both located in Western North Carolina) near the city of Asheville. Director Martin McDonagh envisioned a small town that could represent anywhere in the middle of the United States.”

North Carolina provides a 25% tax rebate on filming when a minimum spend is met. The per-project cap varies between production types but the incentive will have an annual fund of USD31 million for the 2018-19 period.

Full list of winners:

Best Picture

Call Me By Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape Of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Director

Christopher Nolan - Dunkirk
Jordan Peele - Get Out
Greta Gerwig - Lady Bird
Paul Thomas Anderson - Phantom Thread
Guillermo Del Toro - The Shape Of Water

Best Actress

Sally Hawkins - The Shape Of Water
Frances McDormand - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie - I, Tonya
Saorise Ronan - Lady Bird
Meryl Streep - The Post

Best Actor

Timothée Chalamet - Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Day Lewis - Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya - Get Out
Gary Oldman - Darkest Hour
Denzel Washington - Roman J. Israel, esq.

Best Supporting Actress

Mary J. Blige - Mudbound
Allison Janney - I, Tonya
Leslie Manville - Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf - Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer - The Shape of Water

Best Supporting Actor

Willem Dafoe - The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Richard Jenkins - The Shape of Water
Christopher Plummer - All the Money in the World
Sam Rockwell - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Original Screenplay

The Big Sick
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Adapted Screenplay

Call Me By Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Logan
Molly's Game
Mudbound

Best Film Editing

Baby Driver
Dunkirk
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Animated Feature

The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent

Best Cinematography

Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk Mudbound
The Shape of Water

Best Production Design

Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water

Best Visual Effects

Blade Runner 2049
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Kong: Skull Island
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
War for the Planet of the Apes

Best Make-Up and Hairstyling

Darkest Hour
Victoria & Abdul
Wonder

Best Sound Mixing

Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Sound Editing

Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Costume Design

Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Victoria & Abdul

Best Original Score

Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Original Song

Remember Me - Coco
Mystery of Love - Call Me By Your Name
This Is Me - The Greatest Showman
Mighty River - Mudbound
Stand Up For Something - Marshall

Best Foreign Language Film

A Fantastic Woman (Chile)
On Body and Soul (Hungary)
The Insult (Lebanon)
Loveless (Russia)
The Square (Sweden)

Best Documentary Feature

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces Places
Icarus
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong Island

Best Documentary Short

Edith & Eddie
Heaven is a Traffic Jam
Heroin(e)
Knifeskills
Traffic Stop

Best Live-Action Short

DeKalb Elementary
The Eleven O'Clock
My Nephew Emmett
The Silent Child
Watu Wote/All of Us

Best Animated Short

Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes