Jordan Peele – Original Screenplay – ‘Get Out’
90th Annual Academy Awards, Show, Los Angeles, USA – 04 Mar 2018
Jordan Peele Takes Home the Gold
Actor/Director Jordan Peele makes Oscar history by becoming the first African American to win an Oscar for a screenplay. His 2017 horror film “Get Out” won the Academy Award for best original screenplay.
“Get Out” beat out 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.”
In his acceptance speech Peele revealed that he stopped writing the film 20 times.
“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. “To everybody who went and saw this movie, everybody who bought a ticket, who told somebody to buy a ticket — thank
In the film ‘Get Out’ Peele portrays a story about 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.
“Get Out” grossed over $250 million in box office numbers. The screenplay has been widely praised for providing a nuanced view of racism in contemporary America.
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