Guillermo del Toro’s period fantasy stormed the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics awards, taking a staggering five prizes, including Best Actress. The rest of the selections have all been seen elsewhere before, so there isn’t much new here.

Award Tallies

(5) The Shape of Water
(2) Lady Bird

The Awards

Top Ten Films

1. The Shape of Water
2. The Post
3. Lady Bird
4. Call Me by Your Name
5. Get Out
6. Dunkirk
7. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
8. I, Tonya
9. The Florida Project
10. Darkest Hour

Best Animated Film

1. Coco
2. Loving Vincent

Best Director

1. Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water
2. Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
3. Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk
4. Steven Spielberg – The Post
5. Jordan Peele – Get Out

Best Actor

1. Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour
2. James Franco – The Disaster Artist
3. Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread
4. Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name
5. Tom Hanks – The Post

Best Actress

1. Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water
2. Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
3. Margot Robbie – I, Tonya
4. Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
5. Meryl Streep – The Post

Best Supporting Actor

1. Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2. Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
3. Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water
4. Armie Hammer – Call Me by Your Name
5. Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Supporting Actress

1. Allison Janney – I, Tonya
2. Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
3. Mary J. Blige – Mudbound
4. Holly Hunter – The Big Sick
5. Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water

Best Screenplay

1. Lady Bird
2. The Shape of Water

Best Musical Score

1. The Shape of Water
2. Dunkirk

Best Cinematography

1. The Shape of Water
2. Blade Runner 2049

Best Foreign Language Film

1. The Square
2. Thelma
3. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
4. First They Killed My Father
5. In the Fade

Best Documentary

1. City of Ghosts
2. Jane
3. An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
4. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
5. Last Men in Aleppo

Russell Smith Award (best low-budget, cutting-edge independent film)

The Florida Project

Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Data

First Awards: 1993 (25)