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5th March 2018
08:05am GMT

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Del Toro wrote The Shape of Water along with Vanessa Taylor, a film about a silent orphan working in a high-security government lab who falls in love with one of the experiments, an amphibious-humanoid creature.
Let's be honest, it's hardly Oscar-bait, is it? Importantly, it's also the first female-led film to win Best Picture since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.
The Mexican auteur was quick to address issues of diversity in his acceptance speech, reinforcing the fact that he is an immigrant in America, but above all else, a citizen of the world.
“And in the last 25 years, I’ve been living in a country all of our own. Part of it is here, part of it is in Europe, part of it is everywhere. Because I think the greatest thing that art does, and that our industry does, is erase the lines in the sand when the world tells us to make them deeper.
“This is a door,” he concluded. “Kick it open and come in.”
The door ajar, of course, because of directors like Del Toro in the first place.Explore more on these topics:

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