Producer and director Guillermo del Toro (left) and producer J Miles Dale with the Oscar for best picture and best director for the film The Shape of Water. Pic/AFP

Which film did you root for at the Oscars? Whichever one, I'm quite certain, by dint of equitable distribution that the Academy practised this year – The Shape Of Water bagging the big-ticket gongs (four), along with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (two); and the technical top prizes pretty much shared between Dunkirk (three), and Blade Runner 2049 (two) – no one would've been sorely disappointed. I guess it must've been the predictability in the announcements that I passed out watching the show early morning, although that might be for lack of sleep, rather than blandness of ceremony, of course.