The drama was the first Oscar winner to feature both a transgender storyline and star an openly trans performer.
This was the year that men screwed up so badly “women started dating fish”, he said, referencing The Shape of Water.
Sam Rockwell won best supporting actor for playing a racist cop in Three Billboards and Allison Janney won best supporting actress for playing an unforgiving mother in I, Tonya.
Latino talent triumphed again when the Chilean drama A Fantastic Woman, starring trans actor Daniela Vega in the lead, won best foreign film.