Get Out wins the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay   In an emotional acceptance speech at the 2018 Oscars writer-director Jordan Peele said he nearly stopped scripting his debut feature Get Out 20 times because he thought it was an impossible film to write and that he wouldnt be able to get it made even if he did write it. The film which won Best Original Screenplay is a racially charged horror story about a black photographer (Daniel Kaluuya) meeting his white girlfriends family and uncovering an eerie plot. Its Peeles first writing and directing project and it makes him the first black winner in the category and only the fourth nominated after John Singleton Spike Lee and Suzanne de Passe.  Peeles speech was a quick emotional retelling of how he wrote the script followed by a list of thank-yous that included my mother who taught me to love even in the face of hate and every audience member who shouted out in the theater. Offstage Peele was a little less formal.  I just won an Oscar. WTF?!?   Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) March 5 2018  Best Original Screenplay is generally considered one of the most interesting races at the Academy Awards. In the past the category has been something of a catch-all for weird passionate projects but thats been radically changing in recent years in part due to voting rules changes and a diversity membership drive in the wake of the #OscarsSoWhite scandal. While in past years Get Out was exactly the kind of daring aggressively different controversial films that might have been limited to the Best Original Screenplay category this year it was also nominated for Best Director and Best Picture with Daniel Kaluuya up for Best Actor as well.   In the Best Original Screenplay category Get Out was up against The Big Sick (scripted by Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani) Lady Bird (scripted by Greta Gerwig) The Shape of Water (scripted by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (scripted by Martin
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