Jordan Peele Gets Four Big Oscar Noms for ‘Get Out’!

Jordan Peele’s breakout feature filmmaking debut has grabbed four Oscar nominations including the Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Lead Actor for Daniel Kaluuya and the coveted Best Director nominations. Dramedy comedy movie Lady Bird, as expected, also received a slew of nominations. Allison Janney was expected to grab a nomination for Best Supporting Actress, “I, Tonya”, and although the Academy stayed far away from the name James Franco, his film “The Disaster Artist” did get an Adapted Screenplay nomination for writers Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber. Congratulations are also in order for Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani for their semi-autobiographical comedy “The Big Sick.”

All four movies made our top ten comedy movies of the year on The Interrobang. Get Out took the movie world by storm with a giant opening weekend for a low budget thriller, raking in $30 million ticket sales and record breaking Rotten Tomato reviews. The nightmarish meet the parents movie about American race relations starred Daluuya and Allison Williams as an interracial couple who head to the country to spend a weekend with her wealthy family, in this killer thriller. Peele wrote and directed.

He made history as the first black filmmaker ever to receive all three major nominations for a debut feature film, and he’s the third person in history to receive that honor. Only Warren Beatty and James L. Brooks have done it before Peele. He’s also the fifth black director to be nominated for an Oscar, the fourth black writer to be nominated for an Oscar, and pulled all of this off in a few genres that don’t often get Oscar recognition- comedy and horror. The filmmaker reacted to the nomination on Twitter.

Go to Oscar.com to see all of 2018’s nominees. Jimmy Kimmel will host the 90th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday March 4th.

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