Jordan Peele on his Oscar noms: ‘What’s the opposite of the Sunken Place?’
January 23, 2018
After so many years of #OscarsSoWhite, I was already moderating my expectations for this year’s Oscar nominations. Like, I thought it would be a miracle if Greta Gerwig got nominated for directing Lady Bird (she did!). But I didn’t expect the biggest story to be the Academy’s complete and total embrace of Jordan Peele. Peele got the “triple crown” for writer-directors: he was nominated for Original Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture (he produced Get Out as well). Apparently, Peele is the third person in Oscar history – and the first African-American artist – to get those three nominations in the same year. The other two were Warren Beatty and James L. Brooks.
After the nominations came out, Jordan tweeted this:
Which is perfect. He also tweeted this:
I get the feeling that Peele was a lot like all of us, preparing for thee worst, preparing for another #OscarsSoWhite, preparing for a wave of bullsh-t. It’s incredible that he made such a brilliant film AND the Academy recognized it as such.
Jordan did an interview with CBS Sunday Morning too. This is a great interview:
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