Jordan Peele Wins Oscar for 'Get Out'
by EG
The hit horror film Get Out was nominated for four Oscars, but it took home only one. The film's creator, Jordan Peele, won the Best Original Screenplay award, making him the first black writer to be honored in that capacity. Despite being the most commercially successful of all the nominated film's, though, Get Out fell short of its fellow nominees in three other categories, including Best Picture.
Via Page Six.
Jordan Peele’s horror film “Get Out” has won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
“Get Out” topped Greta Gerwig for “Lady Bird,” Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor for “The Shape of Water,” Emily Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani for “The Big Sick,” and Martin McDonagh for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”
“I stopped writing this movie about 20 times because I thought it was impossible,” Peele said in his acceptance speech. “But I kept coming back to it because I knew if someone let me make this movie, people would hear it and people would see it.”
Peele, who is the first African-American to win an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, thanked Universal, Jason Blum, the cast and crew, and his wife and mother.
“To everybody who went and saw this movie, everybody who bought a ticket, who told somebody to buy a ticket — thank you!” Peele said.
Peele’s script centers on a young black man, portrayed by Daniel Kaluuya, who has to deal with an array of strange behavior and supernatural horror at the family home of his white girlfriend. The screenplay has been widely praised for providing a nuanced view of racism in contemporary America.
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