--- title: 2018 Oscars: Here Are the Records That Could Be Broken description: History could be made during the 2018 Oscars in a number of categories throughout the evening. Here's what to watch for. canonical: https://time.com/5170309/2018-oscars-records/ author: Kate Samuelson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-01T15:13:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:49:04.614Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Here Are the Records That Could Be Broken at the 2018 Oscars og:description: This year could see some of the youngest and oldest winners og:url: https://time.com/5170309/2018-oscars-records/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3b56e78bbe36081c/698928d90a4a2258839d1e50/gettyimages-917108494.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 2018 Writers Guild Awards L.A. 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Ceremony at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 11, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California.Christopher Polk—Getty Images by [Kate Samuelson](https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/) ## Kate Samuelson Mar 1, 2018 3:13 PM UTC Despite being the most glamorous night of the year, [the Oscars](http://time.com/4718056/pwc-oscars-la-la-land-moonlight-best-film/) can often feel predictable. The most hyped movie of the year will likely win Best Picture, Best Director will go to a white man and at least a handful of winners will thank their parents, their partner and God. Last year, the evening’s greatest excitement was provided by [the Best Picture mix-up](http://time.com/5115114/oscars-pwc-envelope-procedures/), probably the most shockingly unpredictable moment in Oscars history. It’s looking likely that the 2018 Academy Awards, airing on Sunday, March 4, will also provide some unexpected delights — only this time, instead of [presenters being handed the wrong envelope](http://time.com/4683641/oscars-2017-best-picture-mistake-moonlight-la-la-land/), it will be thanks to some major milestones that could be reached. History could be made during this year’s ceremony, from the first African-American being crowded Best Director to the first woman winning the coveted award for Best Cinematography. Below is a list of some of the most significant records which could be broken Sunday night. ## **Age-Related Records** ### Christopher Plummer, Best Supporting Actor If the 88-year-old Plummer wins Best Supporting Actor for _All the Money in the World_, he’ll beat his previous record of being the oldest winner of an Oscar for acting, which he achieved in 2012 for the Mike Mills film _Beginners_. ### Agnes Varda, Best Documentary and James Ivory, Best Adapted Screenplay Varda, the 89-year-old co-director of _Faces Places_ (with the street artist JR), could become the oldest ever recipient of an Oscar if her movie triumphs in the Best Documentary category. The octogenarian already broke history by becoming the oldest Academy Award nominee, tied with 89-year-old James Ivory (who is eight days younger than Varda). Ivory, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter and co-producer of the bittersweet love story _Call Me by Your Name_, would become the oldest winner if he wins and Varda does not. ### Timothée Chalamet, Best Actor If Chalamet, 22, wins Best Actor for his role in _Call Me By Your Name_, he will become the youngest Best Actor recipient in history. The record is currently held by Adrien Brody, who was 29 when he took home the statue for Roman Polanski’s Holocaust movie _The Pianist_ in 2003\. If Chalamet wins, he could also become the youngest living Academy Award winner. ## **Notable Firsts** ### Rachel Morrison, Best Cinematography If _Mudbound_’s Morrison wins, she will become the first woman in history to win an Oscar for Best Cinematography. _Mudbound,_ [an intimate epic](http://time.com/5112354/2018-oscar-nominations-snubs-surprises/) about two American farming families, one black and one white, working the land in the Mississippi Delta in the 1940s, also received nominations for Adapted Screenplay, Original Song and Supporting Actress, the latter two for Mary J. Blige. Morrison is the first woman ever to be nominated in this category. ### Greta Gerwig, Best Director _Lady Bird_ director Gerwig is the first woman to be nominated as Best Director for her solo directorial debut, so if she wins she’ll be the first woman to win the prestigious award for the first movie she directed. Rather inconceivably, only five female directors have ever been nominated in this category, and only one has won it (Kathryn Bigelow, for _The Hurt Locker_ in 2010). If Gerwig wins, she’ll also be the second woman in Oscars history to be crowned Best Director. ### Dee Rees, Best Adapted Screenplay Writer-director Rees could become the first black woman to win an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, for her co-writing credit alongside Virgil Williams in _Mudbound_. ### Yance Ford, Best Documentary Ford, whose _Strong Island_ has been nominated in the Best Documentary category, could become the first trans director to win an Oscar. Ford’s documentary, which won the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017, is about the murder of his brother in 1992, and an all-white jury’s decision not to charge the killer. ### Jordan Peele, Best Director If _Get Out_ director Peele beats Paul Thomas Anderson, Guillermo del Toro, Greta Gerwig and Christopher Nolan to the coveted award, then he’ll become the first African-American director in history to be crowned Best Director. ### Mary J. Blige / Best Original Song and Best Supporting Actress If the multi-talented Blige triumphs in both categories, she could become the first person to win an Oscar for both an acting performance _and_ original song in the same year. Both of Blige’s nominations are for _Mudbound_, which has the chance to break many Oscar records on Sunday. ## **Category Breakthroughs** ### _Logan,_ Best Adapted Screenplay _Logan_, the Hugh Jackman film which has been billed as the third and final installment in Wolverine’s solo saga, could become the first live-action superhero film to win Best Adapted Screenplay if it beats _Call Me By Your Name_, _The Disaster Artist_, _Molly’s Game_ and _Mudbound_. ### _The Shape of Water,_ Best Picture If Best Picture goes to Guillermo del Toro’s _The Shape of Water_, which TIME described in its review as “about the finest love letter any movie monster could hope for,” it could be the first time the Best Picture award has been handed to a science fiction movie. ## **Not Records But Still Noteworthy** ### Christopher Nolan, Best Director If the veteran English filmmaker, best known for movies including _The Dark Knight_, _Interstellar_ and _Inception_, wins a Best Picture or Best Director Oscar for _Dunkirk_, it will be his first Academy Award. ### _Get Out,_ Best Picture Jordan Peele’s acclaimed horror movie _Get Out_ could become one of the very few February-released movies in Oscars history to win Best Picture. _The Silence of the Lambs_, which was released in February 1991, is a famous example of a February-release’s rare Best Picture win. ### Meryl Streep, Best Actress If Streep wins Best Actress for _The Post_, beating Sally Hawkins, Frances McDormand, Margot Robbie and Saoirse Ronan, she’ll tie Katharine Hepburn’s record for most acting Oscars ever won, with four. ## **The Winningest Loser** ### John Williams, Best Original Score The veterancomposer broke his own record as the most nominated living person in Oscar history when he received his 51st nomination, for Best Original Score for _Star Wars:_ _The Last Jedi_. 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