Oscars: Every Best Picture Winner Ever Ranked From Worst To Best

38. The Shape Of Water (2017)

The Shape of Water
Fox Searchlight

This year's Best Picture winner will certainly go down in Oscar history as one of the strangest and most unexpected victors, given the Academy's persistent allergy to fantasy fare and, well, films about women falling in love with scaly fish creatures.

While the script itself is fairly lightweight and like most of Guillermo del Toro's movies it's propelled forward by its style, it is a thoroughly charming, touching love story at its core, immaculately performed and wringing an incredible amount out of its mere $19.5 million budget.

It'll be interesting to see whether or not the popular narrative deems it to have robbed Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri in the future, for while it's nowhere near a top-tier Best Picture winner, it is one of the most diverting and daring picks the Academy has ever made.

It was the black-and-white sequence that won the crusty old men over, wasn't it?

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