As the confetti settles, the champagne loses its bubbles and the end of the day passes on the 90th Academy Awards, another Mexican director scores big in Hollywood.

“I am an immigrant, like Alfonso and Alejandro my compadres…”

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro spoke these words, as he accepted the award for Best Director. At the after party, the Guadalajara-born del Toro posed with “compadre” Alejandro Iñárritu, as they celebrated a victory for the filmmaker, for the fantasy genre, and for Mexican cinema alike.

Read what Del Toro’s victory means for Mexican cinema, here.