Despite the film 's wide critical acclaim , '' Get Out '' divided Oscar voters , with many older members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences either dismissing the film or choosing not to see it . According to Vulture , new voting members said they ran into " interference " from more senior members of the Academy when it came to evaluating the film as Best Picture . " I had multiple conversations with longtime Academy members who were like , ' That was not an Oscar film , ' " according to a new voter . " And I 'm like , ' That ’s bullshit . Watch it . ' Honestly , a few of them had not even seen it and they were saying it , so dispelling that kind of thing has been super important . " One anonymous Oscar voter told '' The Hollywood Reporter '' that the film 's Oscar campaign turned them off . " W hat bothered me ... was that instead of focusing on the fact that this was an entertaining little horror movie that made quite a bit of money , they started trying to suggest it had deeper meaning than it does , and , as far as I 'm concerned , they played the race card , and that really turned me off . In fact , at one of the luncheons , the lead actor Daniel Kaluuya , who is not from the United States he 's British , was giving us a lecture on racism in America and how black lives matter , and I thought , ' What does this have to do with '' Get Out '' ? They 're trying to make me think that if I do n't vote for this movie , I 'm a racist . ' I was really offended . That sealed it for me . " At the 90th Academy Awards , the film earned four nominations : Best Picture , Best Director , Best Original Screenplay , and Best Actor for Daniel Kaluuya . Peele became the third person ( after Warren Beatty and James L. Brooks ) to earn Best Picture , Director and Screenplay nominations for a debut film , and the first black winner for Best Original Screenplay ( and fourth overall nominated , after John Singleton , Spike Lee , and Suzanne de Passe )
90th Academy Awards
90th Academy Awards
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