Get Out writer-director Jordan Peele has won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay providing the evening with a landmark – he is the first black screenwriter to ever win the award.
Only four black film screenwriters have been nominated for the award in the ceremony’s 90-year history: Suzanne de Passe John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood in 1991) and eventual winner Peele.
Jimmy Kimmel hosted the ceremony kicking things off with a rather safe opening monologue which poked fun at Harvey Weinstein and Mike Pence.
The category was one of the ceremony’s most hotly-contested with the horror satire beating out the likes of The Big Sick, Lady Bird, The Shape of Water and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri to scoop the trophy.