Oscars 2018: Call Me By Your Name wins Best Adapted Screenplay

Mar 05 2018
Written by Jess Glass

Call Me By Your Name. (Twitter/Sony)

Call Me By Your Name has won Best Adapted Screenplay at this years Oscars.

Screenwriter James Ivory took the award for his script which was adapted from a 2007 novel by André Aciman.

Accepting the award after beating films including Logan and The Disaster Artist, Ivory thanked cast members Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer.

Ivory then praised the film itself for its depiction of first love.

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“Whether straight or gay or somewhere in between, we’ve all gone through first love, I hope, mostly intact,” he said.

This award makes Ivory the oldest Oscar winner in history.

Speaking backstage after his award, Ivory said that his victory after so many years felt like a ‘great hiccup.’

He said: “Having won the Oscar seems like a hiccup after 90 years. It feels great.”

Ivory is noted for his adaptations of LGBT novels, as one half of former production company Merchant Ivory.

With his partner Ismail Merchant, Ivory produced adaptations including one of famed gay novel Maurice.

The 89-year-old thanked Merchant, who died in 2005, in his speech, saying that Merchant had “led me to this award.”

“I wouldn’t be standing up here without the inspired help I received from my life’s partners, who are gone,” Ivory said.

Call Me By Your Name received three other Oscar nominations, Best Actor, Best Song and Best Picture.

Actor Timothée Chalamet lost the award for Best Actor in a Leading Role to Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour.

Chalamet made headlines after he vowed to donate his entire fee for his next film to charity, as he said he did not wish to profit from working with controversial director Woody Allen.

Call Me By Your Name also lost out on Best Picture, which was given to The Shape of Water.

Best Song was scooped up by ‘Remember Me’ from Coco.

Call Me By Your Name also won the BAFTA for Best Adapted screenplay earlier this year.

Earlier this year, the film was banned by Tunisian authorities.

After the Tunisian Ministry of Culture intervened, the venue announced on Facebook that the event had been “cancelled” after it had been banned by the government, reported AFP.

Distributor Lassaad Goubantini denounced the decision as “an attack on liberties” motivated by “the subject of the film.”

A Call Me By Your Name sequel is in the works, which according to director Luca Guadagnino will tackle the AIDS crisis.