--- title: Oscars 2018: See the Records Broken at the Academy Awards description: From the new oldest winner to a first for Chile, these are the Oscar wins that broke new ground at the 90th Academy Awards. canonical: https://time.com/5183839/oscars-2018-records-broken/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-05T06:05:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-12T09:01:26.283Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: These Are the Records Broken at the 2018 Oscars og:description: From the new oldest winner to a first for Chile og:url: https://time.com/5183839/oscars-2018-records-broken/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4db32c1cfec3b63b/6989299fcf40a8ccc5c4b89c/shape-of-water-oscar-records-90th-academy-awards.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2405 og:image:height: 1353 og:image:alt: 90th Annual Academy Awards - Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Are the Records Broken at the 2018 Oscars twitter:description: From the new oldest winner to a first for Chile twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4db32c1cfec3b63b/6989299fcf40a8ccc5c4b89c/shape-of-water-oscar-records-90th-academy-awards.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 video:duration: 00:30 video:published: 2018-03-05 section: entertainment topics: screenwriting, perseverance, film industry recognition, Get Out, audience support, gratitude to family genre: acceptance speech, interview clip tones: grateful, emotional, humble, reflective emotions: gratitude (high), emotion (medium), hope (medium) sentiment: positive audience: film enthusiasts, screenwriters, awards watchers, general audiences people: Jordan Peele products: Get Out transcript_source: publisher captions transcript_reviewed: not applicable ---  # These Are the Records Broken at the 2018 Oscars > Sponsored content. 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Comedian turned writer-director Jordan Peele made history Sunday at the 90th annual Academy Awards for his work on Best Picture nominee Get Out_ Description, summary, key points, chapters, key quotes, questions and transcript, where present, were produced automatically from the video or its captions and were not reviewed. ## Summary Jordan Peele speaks after winning an award for his screenplay work on the film Get Out. He describes how he repeatedly nearly abandoned writing the movie, believing it would never be made, and explains that he kept returning to it because he hoped audiences would hear and see it. He closes by thanking his mother and everyone who saw the film or encouraged others to buy tickets. ## Key points - Peele says he stopped writing the movie about 20 times because he thought it was impossible and would never be made. (00:00) - He kept returning to the project because he believed that if someone let him make it, people would hear it and see it. (00:08) - Peele credits his mother with teaching him to love even in the face of hate. (00:16) - He thanks everyone who went to see the movie. (00:20) - He thanks everyone who bought a ticket and told somebody else to buy a ticket. (00:24) - Peele says the recognition means a great deal to him. (00:00) ## Chapters - [00:00 to 00:30] Peele's acceptance speech on the screenplay award. Peele reflects on nearly abandoning the screenplay, credits his mother, and thanks audiences who saw Get Out. ## Key quotes - [00:00] Jordan Peele: "I stopped writing this movie about 20 times because I thought it was impossible." - [00:08] Jordan Peele: "I kept coming back to it because I knew if someone let me make this movie that people would hear it and people would see it." - [00:16] Jordan Peele: "My mother who taught me to love even in the face of hate" - [00:24] Jordan Peele: "everybody who bought a ticket who told somebody to buy a ticket, thank you." ## Questions this video answers - Why did Jordan Peele repeatedly stop writing the movie? [00:00] - What motivated Peele to keep returning to the screenplay? [00:08] - Who does Peele credit for teaching him to love in the face of hate? [00:16] - Whom does Peele thank for supporting the film? [00:24]  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Mar 5, 2018 6:05 AM UTC Comedian turned writer-director Jordan Peele made history Sunday at the 90th annual Academy Awards for his work on Best Picture nominee Get Out  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Mar 5, 2018 6:05 AM UTC At the [90th Academy Awards](http://time.com/5136088/oscars-2018-when-where-nominees-host/) on Sunday night, many of the awards were fairly easy [to predict](http://time.com/5171517/2018-oscar-predictions/), particularly among the acting honors. But there were several unprecedented moments as the golden statuettes were doled out. Many [records were broken](http://time.com/5170309/2018-oscars-records/) in the 2018 Oscar [nominations](http://time.com/5112407/oscar-nominations-2018/) themselves, and now that the awards themselves have been distributed, we have ourselves a new crop of record breakers. Here are some of the most significant records broken at the 2018 Oscars: ### James Ivory, Best Adapted Screenplay When Ivory won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay Sunday night, for _Call Me By Your Name,_ he became the oldest Oscar winner ever. Ivory has been nominated three times before, but this was his first win. In his heartfelt acceptance speech, following a standing ovation, he shouted out his late longtime collaborators, Ismail Merchant and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. ### Jordan Peele, Best Original Screenplay _Get Out_ director Peele broke ground at the 2018 Oscars, becoming the first black screenwriter ever to win an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Peele, who was also nominated for Best Director and Best Picture, thanked “everyone who went and saw this movie, for shouting out at the theater, for shouting out at the screen.” ### _The Shape of Water,_ Best Picture On Sunday night, Guillermo del Toro’s _The Shape of Water_ became the first science fiction film to win top honors at the Academy awards. Though the movie is a blend of genres, including romance and fantasy, its love story between a human and a fish-like river god qualifies it as enough of a sci-fi film — not to mention a genre movie and a monster film — to establish a new record. ### _A Fantastic Woman_, Foreign Language Film A _Fantastic_ _Woman_ not only stands out for its rare narrative that centers on the life of a transgender woman. The movie also became the first Chilean film to win an Oscar for Foreign Language Film Sunday night. ### John Williams, Best Original Score Williams, who was nominated for Best Original Score for _Star Wars:_ _The Last Jedi_, broke his own record Sunday night — by losing to _The Shape of Water_‘s Alexandre Desplat. The veteran film composer, who has won five Oscars, is the most nominated living person, which means he also holds the title for most Oscars lost, adding one to the list for a grand total of 46. ## Transcript [00:00] This means so much to me. I stopped writing this [00:04] movie about 20 times because I thought it was [00:06] impossible. I thought it wasn't going to work. I thought [00:08] no one would ever make this movie. But I kept coming [00:11] back to it because I knew if someone let me make this [00:13] movie that people would hear it and people would see [00:16] it. 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