Get Out critics: Peele’s success at the Oscars

Last week at the Oscars, Jordan Peele’s critically acclaimed Get Out was awarded with an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
Rotten Tomatoes summarizes the film:
“Now that Chris and his girlfriend, Rose, have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with Missy and Dean. At first, Chris reads the family’s overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he could never have imagined.”
Released in theaters, February 24, 2017, Get Out was nominated for Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Picture, and Daniel Kaluuya for Best Actor.
Earning over 175 million dollars in the box office, Peele initially didn’t think Get Out would be made. The visual was a concept he imagined but doubted would come to creation, until he decided to further develop the idea to fruition.
After its time in theaters, the film was considerably controversial in the realms of critics. Despite being negated between horror, suspense, and comedy genres, Peele tweeted:
“Get Out is a documentary”.
Seemingly an appealing film to a larger audience for lacking the label many associate with a genre, Get Out Oscar votes presented a shocking yet obvious discovery. The New York Times wrote:
“Some Oscar voters, in explaining why they didn’t pick the film, implied Get Out went too far in drawing attention to how black consciousness may be suppressed: Get Out was a great film, but I don’t read as much into it as others do,” a voter said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. That person picked The Shape of Water for best picture because “its only topical’ in that it deals with outsiders, not racism or sexism or anything else.”
Other voters agreed, feeling as if Get Out played the race card.
Ironically, the Oscar-winning film was at a loss in the media for similar social issues Peele explored in the plot’s dynamic.
Overcoming negative reviews, not all of the film critics agreed. Many on social media even went as far as to condemn the Oscars for Get Out’s lack of more success.
Southern University freshman, Khadijah Al-Uqdah from Inglewood, California agreed: “I think that it should’ve won with best director just because of the aspect and how he used different things in the movie to symbolize past events.”
Regina Allen, freshman Political Science major from Lafayette, Louisiana echoed: “Get Out was more than what people made it out to be, Get Out was history. It meant so much…”
In accordance with Peele’s success, other black celebrities at this year’s 90th Oscar Awards were in the spotlight as well.
Kobe Bryant received Best Animated Short Film for the poem he wrote in 2015 announcing his NBA basketball retirement, “Dear Basketball.”
In addition, comedian, Tiffany Haddish, was noticed for wearing a white dress she appeared in as the host of Saturday Night Live and Girl’s Trip movie premiere. Haddish previously commented on SNL.
“I don’t give a dang about no taboo. I spent a lot of money on this dress. This dress cost way more than my mortgage. This is a Alexander McQueen, OK?”
Regardless of amount of accolades, the 2018 Oscar Awards was a night of triumph for black celebrities in entertainment.