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Jordan Peele wins Best Original Screenplay at the Oscars and everyone's thrilled

'Get Out' beat out 'The Big Sick', 'Lady Bird', 'The Shape of Water', and 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' for the prize.

Angie Han

on March 4, 2018

Jordan Peele wins Best Original Screenplay at the Oscars and everyone's thrilled

Jordan Peele arrives at the 2018 Academy Awards. Credit: Christopher Polk / Getty Images

Jordan Peele just became an Oscar winner.

The Academy has awarded Peele this year's Best Original Screenplay prize for Get Out. He's the fourth African-American writer ever nominated in the category, and the first one ever to win.

Needless to say, people are pretty psyched about it.

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Including, of course, Peele and his wife, Chelsea Peretti.

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Peele beat out several strong contenders for the award, including Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon (The Big Sick), Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird), Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), and Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor (The Shape of Water).

Get Out was nominated for three other awards in addition to Best Original Screenplay: Best Director (Peele), Best Lead Actor (Daniel Kaluuya), and Best Picture.

Angie Han

Angie Han is the Deputy Entertainment Editor at Mashable. Previously, she was the managing editor of Slashfilm.com. She writes about all things pop culture, but mostly movies, which is too bad since she has terrible taste in movies.