The film also received four nominations at the 90th Academy Awards : Best Picture , Best Director and Best Original Screenplay nominations for Peele , as well as a Best Actor nomination for Kaluuya . Peele won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay , becoming the first black screenwriter to win in this category . He became the third person , after Warren Beatty and James L. Brooks , to be nominated for Best Picture , Best Director , and Best Original Screenplay for a debut film , and the first black person to receive them for any one film . '' Get Out '' also earned him the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay , as well as nominations for a Directors Guild of America Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
90th Academy Awards
90th Academy Awards
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