--- 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. title: These Are the Records Broken at the 2018 Oscars image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4db32c1cfec3b63b/6989299fcf40a8ccc5c4b89c/shape-of-water-oscar-records-90th-academy-awards.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [awards](/tag/awards/) ## awards Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # These Are the Records Broken at the 2018 Oscars  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Mar 5, 2018 6:05 AM CUT  Producer J. Miles Dale, director Guillermo del Toro (at microphone) and cast/crew accept Best Picture for 'The Shape of Water' onstage during the 90th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 4, 2018 in Hollywood. Producer J. Miles Dale, director Guillermo del Toro (at microphone) and cast/crew accept Best Picture for 'The Shape of Water' onstage during the 90th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 4, 2018 in Hollywood.Kevin Winter—Getty Images  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Mar 5, 2018 6:05 AM CUT At the [90th Academy Awards](http://time.com/5136088/oscars-2018-when-where-nominees-host/ "undefined") on Sunday night, many of the awards were fairly easy [to predict](http://time.com/5171517/2018-oscar-predictions/ "undefined"), 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/ "undefined") in the 2018 Oscar [nominations](http://time.com/5112407/oscar-nominations-2018/ "undefined") 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. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5183839/oscars-2018-records-broken/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5183839/oscars-2018-records-broken/"},"headline":"These Are the Records Broken at the 2018 Oscars","datePublished":"2018-03-05T06:05:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T19:30:32.428Z","description":"From the new oldest winner to a first for Chile","url":"https://time.com/5183839/oscars-2018-records-broken/","keywords":["awards"],"thumbnailUrl":"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=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"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=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"90th Annual Academy Awards - Show","caption":"90th Annual Academy Awards - Show","creditText":"Kevin Winter—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/awards/","name":"awards"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5183839/oscars-2018-records-broken/","name":"These Are the Records Broken at the 2018 Oscars"}}]}] ```