Jordan Peele Becomes First Black Person To Win Oscar For Best Original Screenplay

Jordan Peele made history at the 90th Academy Awards when he took home the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

JORDAN PEELE IS FIRST BLACK MAN TO WIN BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Peele wrote and directed Get Out, which received high praise when it came out in February 2017, and that esteem carried over through to Oscar Sunday the following year. The social and racial horror/satire film was also nominated for Best Director, making Peele just the fifth black man to be nominated for that honor, but he made history when he became the first black man to win for Best Original Screenplay.

He is now also the first black director to receive nods in the writing, directing and best picture categories in his directorial debut. The feat has only been met twice in the past, with Warren Beatty‘s Heaven Can Wait in 1978 and James L. Brooks‘ Terms of Endearment in 1983. Beatty won none, while Brooks won all of his categories.

“This means so much to me. I stopped writing this movie about 20 times because I thought it was impossible, I thought it wasn’t gonna work, I thought no one would ever make this movie,” Peele said in his acceptance speech. “But I kept coming back to it because I knew if someone let me make this movie, that people would hear it and people would see it. who raised my voice and let me make this movie.”