VIDEO : Guillermo del Toro Wins Oscar For Best Director For 'Shape Of Water'

Guillermo del Toro won the best director Oscar for "The Shape of Water," his sumptuous, sensual fairytale that is a Technicolor ode to outsiders. WATCH: Tiffany Haddish & Maya Rudolph Steal The Show At The 2018 Oscars "The Shape of Water" tells the story of a mute cleaning lady, Eliza (Sally Hawkins) who conspires with her gay friend and neighbor (Richard Jenkins) and her co-worker (Octavia Spencer) to rescue a creature ? a muscular merman ? that is being held captive in a secret Cold War-era government laboratory.