What Oscar did Jordan Peele win?

Jordan Peele, born in New York City in 1979, is the writer and director of Get Out, Us and Nope. Get Out won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, making him the first Black screenwriter to win the category.

Born in New York City in 1979. Spent years in sketch comedy, most famously Key and Peele, before turning the same eye for social detail toward horror.

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Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Get Out (2018)

First Black screenwriter to win Best Original Screenplay

Co-created Key and Peele

Founded Monkeypaw Productions

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What Oscar did Jordan Peele win?: Best Original Screenplay, for Get Out, at the 2018 Academy Awards.
What films has Jordan Peele directed?: Get Out, Us and Nope.
What is Monkeypaw Productions?: His production company, which makes his films and produces genre work by other directors.

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RYAN COOGLER

THE ARTS · KNECTOCTOBER 10, 2026

His debut as a director, Get Out, won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2018. He was the first Black screenwriter to win that category. The film made a genre about fear into a film about who gets to feel safe.

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Us and Nope followed, each one an original idea rather than a sequel. Monkeypaw Productions, his company, produces horror and genre work by other filmmakers too.

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