Every Guillermo Del Toro Movie Ranked Worst To Best
2. The Shape Of Water (2017)
After years of being snubbed, The Shape of Water finally won Guillermo del Toro an Oscar (for both Picture and Director), and though this feels like a consolidation prize on paper, it was a worthy victor, easily planting itself as one of his most expressive and moving experiments.
The story of a mute cleaner who works at a secret government facility and falls in love with the mysterious creature it's holding for experimentation, the gorgeous hit is part action movie, part romance and part wartime thriller; a seductive tale of love between outcasts, of hope against all odds.
It gets slack from some del Toro fans for being so polished, but come on: Between its surprise musical beats, luminous cinematography, Sally Hawkins giving her best performance, and his lovely humanism front-and-centre, how could you not be drawn in?