Jordan Peele Thanks 'Everybody Who Bought A Ticket' To Get Out For His Oscar

Oscar winner Jordan Peele has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?


On Sunday night (March 4), Peele took house the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his unsettling directorial debut, Get Out. "This means so much to me," the writer-director mentioned upon accepting the Oscar. "I stopped writing this movie so several times because I thought it was impossible — I thought it wasn't going to work. I thought no one would ever make this movie, nevertheless I kept coming back to it because I knew that if someone let me make this movie that people would hear it and people would visualize it."


Oh, and the people did visualize it. Made on a minuscule Hollywood financial range of $4 million, Peele's clever social thriller went on to create $255 million at the box office. The film depicts the real-life horrors of being black In the
U.S., And no other film in this category — or this year, to be straightforward — was as thoroughly embraced by critics and crowds as Get Out. (Though, Gerwig's Lady Bird comes close.) It's the sort of film that advantages from numerous viewings; every scene was made to be dissected, from the deer to the cotton to the Froot Loops to the Sunken Place.


Peele went on to dedicate the award "to everybody who went and saw this movie, everybody who paid for a ticket, who told somebody to purchase a ticket — thank you. I love you."


The screenplay for Get Out bested some serious heavy-hitters, including Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon's heartfelt, semi-autobiographical romantic comedy, The Big Sick; playwright Martin McDonagh's bleak, biting Three Billboards Outdoor of Ebbing, Missouri; Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor's sensual, sublime The Shape of Water; and Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird, the endearing, hella tight tale of a complimentary spirit coming of age in the unbearably typical suburbs of Sacramento, California, in the early 2000s.