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It may not be the Oscar contender for Best Picture, but certainly could get a nomination for Costume Design.

(One Academy voter recently admitted, anonymously, to having rejected Get Out, Jordan Peele's deeply innovative and urgently important Best Picture contender, out of hand — precisely because, the voter groused, «as far as I'm concerned, they played the race card.»)

The other hot contender for Best Picture was the horror thriller GET OUT which earned Daniel Kaluuya the BEST ACTOR AWARD as the African - American boyfriend of a rich white girlfriend who goes home to meet her parents one weekend at their affluent estate, and discovers that his «having the creeps» is not unfounded.

«Get Out» is a best picture contender, and the first - time filmmaker was nominated for directing and screenwriting awards.

But I didn't walk out of «Get Out» thinking that it was going to be a legitimate contender for a Best Picture Oscar, more than a year in the future.

So if guys like Tapley and Feinberg turn out to be right, you're really looking at only one Best Actress contender in the entire Best Picture lineup — unless Florence Foster Jenkins miraculously gets in for BP.

It was also a big day for Call Me By Your Name, which lead all film noms with a total of six including best picture, but Universal / Blumhouse's Get Out continued to prove it's a serious contender this season with five noms for the Jordan Peele movie including best picture, director, screenplay, editing and male lead Daniel Kaluuya.

If you listen to the experts, this is a two - horse race between legit Oscar best - picture contenders Lady Bird and Get Out.

Other contenders for Best Picture include Jordan Peele's horror hit Get Out, Christoper Nolan's war drama Dunkirk, Phantom Thread, Darkest Hour, The Post, and the acclaimed Call Me By Your Name.

Entertainment Weekly writer Nicole Sperling noted that «the epic true story of Louis Zamperini has Oscar bait written all over it» and that «Angelina Jolie... will surely give the boys a run for their money» for a Best Director nod, while Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times predicted that «Unbroken» will get a Best Picture nomination but that Jolie will be skipped over when the Best Director contenders are named.

Winning the top film awards were original screenplay contender Jordan Peele for Universal Pictures» «Get Out» and adapter James Ivory for Sony Pictures Classics» «Call Me by Your Name.»

There are some who are predicting that a split will occur between Picture and Original Screenplay (where all the major contenders are), but this would appear to be because «Three Billboards» was not eligible for the Original Screenplay WGA Award due to their asinine rules, which led to it being given to «Get Out» instead.

Musical or Comedy designation landed Phoenix a Best Actor nod at the Golden Globes (his second straight one in that category perhaps qualifies him for the «funnyman» label), but the film could not get a Best Picture nomination despite a field with only two legitimate Oscar contenders.

Not only has it been 40 years since all five Best Actress contenders starred in Best Picture contenders, but it gets even worse with the expanded ballot.