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Though he admitted that he didn't want to risk missing out on winning Jimmy Kimmel's Jet Ski, Jordan Peele made the most of his acceptance speech time when he won Best Original Screenplay for Get Out at tonight's Academy Awards.

The Oscar - nominated films earned mentions only in Best Actor (Daniel Kaluuya) and Best Original Screenplay for Get Out and Best Actress (Sally Hawkins) and a pair of techs for The Shape of Water.

This latest win for Jordan Peele and his screenplay for Get Out bodes well for a victory at the Academy Awards.

Willem Dafoe receives Best Supporting Actor, while Jordan Peele wins Best Screenplay for Get Out.

One of the top moments from the gala came when Jordan Peele won Best Original Screenplay for Get Out

Not exact matches

Here are just a few: Jordan Peele became the first African American to win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Get Out, and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won for Best Picture — a film featuring a female actor in the lead role hasn't won the category since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.

Friday the 13th, which currently has Prisoners «scribe, Aaron Guzikowski, penning the screenplay, has been a bumpy road for Friday fans in regards to getting a firm release date and any details as to what the plot will entail.

Boasting a strong cast, but an anemic screenplay, and an enthusiastic approach to lensing in the great outdoors, The Missing might not be one of the guy's very best movies, but he sure gets points in my book for trying something a little more... grown - up... this time around.

The Academy really didn't like Gone Girl much, as Gillian Flynn (who has been owning this category on the awards circuit) couldn't even get a screenplay nomination for adapting her own best - seller.

Megamind might well be loaded with big names (Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, David Cross, Brad Pitt), it does have the odd cheeky nod for the grown - ups - and it is presented in inglorious 3D - but it's also got a screenplay overflowing with charm, intelligence, wit and a real spark.

By the movie's midpoint, the Wachowski brothers» screenplay has gotten so bogged down in back story that it takes 40 minutes for director James McTiegue to get back to the explosions that his 16 - year - old target audience assumes will solve everything.

Nimbly directed by Mike Flanagan, Gerald's Game is notable for a tight screenplay and a watch - it - through - your - fingers scene of Jessie figuring out a bloody way to get out of those handcuffs.

Director Keating's attention - getting deftness behind the camera is never in doubt, but his screenplay seems to lack the context needed for any of the savage violence to feel satisfactorily earned.

It's an audience - approved template that Wiig (who co-wrote the screenplay with Annie Mumolo) has little problem personalizing, sincerely and ridiculously confronting issues of beauty, wealth, loyalty, monogamy, marriage, and sex through the tale of a character whose life spirals downward after her best friend, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), gets engaged and she's forced to battle for sole possession of BFF status with Lillian's glamorous and wealthy new sidekick, Helen (Rose Byrne).

This time around, Jim asks Michelle to marry him and as the duo set out to get hitched, their parents meet, their friends prepare for the festivities and a new girl, the bride - to - be's younger sister, joins the fray in order to beef up the film's paper - thin screenplay.

So far Silver Linings has placed Lawrence and Cooper in privileged positions for Academy Award nominations and not unlikely is the possibility of the film getting recognition in the Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and of course Best Director categories.

It was kinda crazy that it took 90 years for a black screenwriter to win best Original Screenplay, but Jordan Peele accomplished that with Get Out.

You Are Here is said to be a personal project — in the works for the better part of a decade — and it has all the earmarks of a screenplay that Weiner kept in a back drawer for years until he suddenly had the means to get it off the ground.

Greta Gerwig may have got a nom for screenplay but was left off the Directors list along with The Florida Project «s Sean Baker.

The 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations have been announced and Jordan Peele's completely different but also masterful social thriller Get Out, scored five nods in total including Best Director and Screenplay for Peele, as well as Best Picture, Actor, and Editing.

The screenplay is based on on a book by a couple of Boston Globe journalists which exposed Bulger's catalogue of racketeering, murder and extortion, and while movies and real life should never be mistaken for one another, Black Mass successfully depicts a seamy, sleazy, blue collar milieu where blood is thicker than water and crime is just what you do to get by.

Also getting a best picture nomination (as well as nods for star Brie Larson, adapted screenplay by Emma Donoghue from her novel and director Lenny Abrahamson) was the singular «Room,» an emotional roller coaster whose success led to perhaps the biggest surprise of the morning.

There's «Get Out» from Jordan Peele (which feels like a dark horse for Original Screenplay on a good day, though I'm sure many will work hard for Daniel Kaluuya and Betty Gabriel in acting categories) and «The Fate of the Furious» from F. Gary Gray («Straight Outta Compton»), but neither truly feel like they'll make a dent come awards season.

It's the favorite for Best Adapted Screenplay, and may get recognition for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Director.

It was assumed it would get in here rather easily, but instead, it looks like it's effectively been eliminated from the competition, and subsequently for Best Picture (no nomination here equals no chance of winning the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, and nowadays no screenplay Oscar means no Best PictuScreenplay, and nowadays no screenplay Oscar means no Best Pictuscreenplay Oscar means no Best Picture Oscar).

Very exciting, it's been 8 years since Primer (a science - fiction favourite in these parts), and while the writer / director's screenplay for «A Topiary» never got made into a film, he whipped out this surprise to many earlier this week by way of the festival announcement and a very shiny bit of key art which confirms that Carruth will star in the film along with Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way To Die).

The two biggest question marks were Original Screenplay and Best Picture — Jordan Peele took Original Screenplay for «Get Out,» while «The Shape of Water» grabbed Best Picture as well as Best Director, Production Design and and Original Score.

Jordan Peele, who scored two personal nominations for best director and original screenplay, as well as two more nominations for «Get Out,» seemed almost stunned, reacting with a gif of Kaluuya in one of the film's iconic scenes and asking «What's the opposite of the sunken place?»

A smart, hair - raising satire about prejudice and race relations, «Get Out» won Best Film, as well as Best Original Screenplay for writer - director Jordan Peele's provocative script.

Jordan Peele, who scored two personal nominations for best director and original screenplay, as well as two more nominations for «Get Out,» seemed almost stunned, reacting with a gif of Kaluuya in one of the film's iconic scenes and asking...

Jordan Peele's horror - satire Get Out has a single nomination for Best Screenplay, a category he occupies with Martin McDonagh of Three Billboards and Greta Gerwig of Lady Bird.

This year, that picture is «Get Out,» and the original screenplay nod would reward Peele for his writing and direction.

The Netflix film, nimbly directed by Mike Flanagan (Oculus, Hush, Ouija: Origin of Evil) is notable for a tight screenplay and a watch - it - through - your - fingers scene of Jessie figuring out a bloody way to get out of those handcuffs.

The Writers Guild of America has just finished handing out their awards for 2017, resulting in James Ivory («Call Me by Your Name») and Jordan Peele («Get Out») taking top honors for Adapted and Original Screenplays, respectively.

This is one of the key preceding awards before the Academy Awards are handed out early next month, and on the feature film side of things, another significant win adds even more momentum to the acclaimed thriller Get Out with Jordan Peele winning the award for original screenplay.

«Lady Bird» and «Get Out» have received nominations for SAG's Best Cast award and the WGA's Original Screenplay award, while «Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri» has also been nominated for SAG's Best Cast (and would have no doubt been nominated by the WGA if it weren't for their asinine rules that disqualified it).

Compare that with Hannah, the co-writer of «The Post,» who's getting major accolades for her first screenplay (though she had an assist from «Spotlight» scribe Singer).

Writer / director Jordan Peele was recognized in the Best Original Screenplay and Best First Film categories for Get Out.

It's clear right from the get - go that director John Huston (who co-wrote the screenplay with Peter Viertel) isn't interested in presenting both sides of this story - said Chief of Police is almost ridiculously evil, completely devoid of any redeeming qualities - but that's not necessarily a bad thing, as the filmmaker does an effective job of establishing each of these rebels (to the point where we're genuinely rooting for them to accomplish their complicated mission).

The same can not be said for «The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,» where coasting is all there is, in the hopes that these charismatic and talented actors can somehow make tandoori chicken salad out of a screenplay (by returning writer Ol Parker, no longer tethered to the novel by Deborah Maggoch) that's chock - full of unmotivated action, half - baked characters, and lazily - constructed conflicts so contrived they'd get booted out of the «Two and a Half Men» writer's room.

Film: Get Out Director: Jordan Peele Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener, Caleb Landry Jones Oscar Nominations (4): Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay Where to Stream: HBO Now / Go, Available for order on Amazon Video

Greta Gerwig, the first female nominee in the Best Director category in eight years, lost to del Toro as well as Jordan Peele for Get Out in the Best Original Screenplay category.

Outside of those two movies, Get Out won Best Screenplay, Willem DaFoe won Best Supporting Actor for The Florida Project, and Laurie Metcalf won Best Supporting Actress for Lady Bird.

Ever since Get Out opened last February, I'd been cautioning that, realistically, an Original Screenplay nomination was its best bet for Oscar (because based on Oscar history, it was, but Oscar seems ready for a new phase).

Each year we get a master list of all the eligible films and then need to divide the titles into Adapted and Original for the screenplay...

I get that Zemeckis, who co-wrote the screenplay with Christopher Browne, is trying to capture that whimsical zest for life Petit had, but it would have been more effective to play into the dangerous and illegal aspects to really show off how fearless and crazy he was to try to attempt such a daring act.

Fredrik Bond has been making «short» movies for the past decade as an award - winning commercials director (view some here) and luck would have it that he gets to work from a top tier 2007 Blacklist Screenplay and a solid ensemble with the likes of Shia LaBeouf (who reportedly dropped acid for some scenes), Aubrey Plaza, Rupert Grint, Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen, Til Schweiger and Melissa Leo.

Jordan Peele is nominated for three Academy Awards for his film «Get Out,» including picture, director and original screenplay.

Screenplay Competition Director, Matt Dy stated «We want to provide an avenue for writers to submit their short scripts to get noticed and get their work produced.

Jordan Peele had to dig deep to get the horror - satire «Get Out» to the screen, and his reward was the first original screenplay Oscar for an African - Americget the horror - satire «Get Out» to the screen, and his reward was the first original screenplay Oscar for an African - AmericGet Out» to the screen, and his reward was the first original screenplay Oscar for an African - American.