The main movie award of the planet - "Oscar" in the category "Best Film of the Year" - was received by the film directed by Guillermo del Toro "Form of Water". The film became the leader of the anniversary ceremony of "Oscar" in the number of nominations - he was nominated for 13 categories, RIA "Novosti". As a result, the "Water Shape" took 4 awards: for the best direction, the original soundtrack, 2 figurines went to the art directors of the painting. For the title of the main film of the year, besides the "Form of Water", the bands "Off", "Lady Bird", "Ghost thread", "Dark times", "Three billboards on the Ebbinga border, Missouri", "Call me by your name", "Dunkirk" "and" Secret dossier ". The picture tells of the love of a disabled woman and an amphibian monster, raised in the 60s. in the USA in a secret laboratory. The choice of film academics this year can be called an emphatically politically correct.

Russian nominee "Oscar" director Andrei Zvyagintsev, unfortunately, did not receive a reward for his "dislike". In the category "Best film in a foreign language" cherished statuette from Zvyagintsev selected Chilean master Sebastian Lelio with the film "Fantastic Woman". But "Oscar" received a documentary about doping in Russian sports and Grigory Rodchenko - "Icarus". The picture tells about the role of Rodchenkov in the Olympics in 2014 and the escape of the informer WADA from Russia.