On the year’s biggest night for movies, there’s only one film that deserves to take home kudos for Best Picture, and that’s Call Me by Your Name. Other nominees for Best Picture include groundbreaking films that chronicle important pieces of history or pave the way for a more diverse future of cinema, but nothing quite measures up to director’s Luca Guadagnino’s beautifully made coming-of-age love story.

The film is unique, sublime, inspired, beautiful, and feels totally new in a cinematic landscape that often feels like a derivative and overwrought slog. Call Me by Your Name surprises its viewers as a refreshing piece of escapist storytelling. In short, it does everything that objective good art should do: entertain and inspire us with a well-craft story about the human condition. What else could possibly qualify a film to be the “Best Picture”?