VIDEO : Guillermo del Toro Gushes Over Fellow Best Director Nominees

It?s beautiful to see a symphonic piece like what Chris Nolan has done with ?Dunkirk? ? and a personal dark ballad like ?Phantom Thread? from Paul Thomas Anderson ? and to see Greta Gerwig, who created a beautiful calibrated and deeply emotional chamber piece with ?Lady Bird?
To the director of the year's most nominated film, there's not much difference between a teenager from Sacramento and a mythical South American creature
del Toro feels that ?The Shape of Water? is a deeply personal film. ?The beauty of ?Lady Bird? is that it?s a beautiful little biography, the chronicle of a very intimate thing,? he said. ?And for me, the equivalent with monsters is ?The Shape of Water.?