While it takes courage to stand in front of a room filled with past, current, and future colleagues, most of whom are, indeed, men and not women, many viewers were quick to point out that there were other important minorities included in the nominees. Jordan Peele was nominated for Get Out ( he earlier had his own landmark win for Best Screenplay ) the and the eventual winner, Guillermo del Toro for Shape of Water is an immigrant from Mexico . He dedicated his acceptance speech to bettering the conversation around immigrants in the United States.