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'Get Out' Will Be Labeled A Comedy For Golden Globe Awards

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Jordan Peele‘s successful feature film debut Get Out will be competing at the Golden Globe Awards as a comedy.

If Get Out actually receives a nomination then it will likely find star Daniel Kaluuya going up against possible Hugh Jackman (The Greatest Showman), Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick), James Franco (The Disaster Artist), Matt Damon (Downsizing), and Steve Carell (Battle of the Sexes), according to a report from Entertainment Weekly.

READ: ‘Get Out’ Was The Inspiration Behind A New UCLA College Course On Racism & Horror

The report also notes that although it does not seem likely that Get Out will receive in supporting nominations, it is possible that Peele could get a Globe nomination for directing if the horror-satire movie gains enough support from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Nominations for the 75th Golden Globe Awards will be announced Monday, December 11, with the awards telecast to follow on January 8 at 8:00 p.m. ET on NBC.

Last month, Peele crashed a college course at UCLA based on Get Out. Titled, “Sunken Place: Racism, Survival, and Black Horror Aesthetic,” the course’s professor Tananarive Due surprised her students for the first day of class with an appearance from Peele himself. He had posed as a student throughout the class before Due brought him up to speak to the students about the film.

“Today we snuck Jordan Peele into a back row while I was screening a scene from Get Out in my black horror class,” Due had recounted on Twitter. “Then he raised his hand.”

 

[playahaitian]

http://ew.com/movies/2017/11/14/golden-globes-2018-get-out-comedy/

Get Out to compete as a comedy at Golden Globes



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Joey Nolfi
November 14, 2017 AT 01:02 PM EST
Get Out is looking to rope in Hollywood Foreign Press Association voters for the Golden Globes’ comedy/musical categories.

EW has confirmed with Universal, the film’s distributor, that the Jordan Peele-directed horror-satire will compete as a comedy at the upcoming Golden Globe Awards, where awards pundits had already pegged it a likely contender regardless of its placement. A source close to the Globes says Blumhouse, which produced the film, entered it for consideration as a comedy.

The move probably allows Get Out more wiggle room when it comes to landing an above-the-line nomination for its key player, star Daniel Kaluuya, who will now likely square off against potential comedy/musical foes like Hugh Jackman (The Greatest Showman), Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick), James Franco (The Disaster Artist), Matt Damon (Downsizing), and Steve Carell (Battle of the Sexes).

As for other films that could put up a fight against Get Out in the Globes’ comedy/musical race, The Big Sick, I, Tonya, The Disaster Artist, Lady Bird, and The Greatest Showman could all be potential contenders. The film seems less likely to make a dent in the supporting races, but Peele could surprise with a Globe nomination for directing if the film generates enough heat with the easily impressionable HFPA.

Though genre films like The Exorcist, Gravity, and The Lord of the Rings films have a spotty track record with major awards bodies — especially the Oscars — the Golden Globes’ smaller voting base (it’s roughly 90 journalists) and dual category tracks (comedy/musical and drama) for films and lead performances means a wider selection of titles will be a part of the conversation, with studios often blurring the lines between genres (remember when Ridley Scott’s space-themed drama The Martian competed as a comedy?) in the hopes of bagging a few more nominations for their respective ponies in the race.

Released to theaters in February after a strong showing at Sundance the previous month, Get Out succeeded with audiences as a runaway box office hit, grossing a massive $33.4 million across its opening weekend en route to a $253.4 million worldwide haul on a miniscule $4.5 million budget. Its financial strides have only helped its cause in the race for awards attention, and, after the Academy invited a record 774 new faces to join its ranks this summer, several invitees told EW the film was high on their list of best picture choices at this early stage of the game.

Nominations for the 75th Golden Globe Awards will be announced Monday, Dec. 11, with the awards telecast to follow on Sunday, Jan. 7 at 8:00 p.m. ET on NBC.

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

Guaranteed win.

Best screenplay, best actor and supporting actor, best director, and honestly best movie.

 

[playahaitian]

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[therealjondoe]

They did the same thing with The Martian.

 

[DaddyDiesel]

WTF!!! Too many subliminals to read into this or just outright blatant
disregard for the truth.

 

[SamSneed]

Fuck crackers

 

[playahaitian]

They did the same thing with The Martian.

The Martian won the Golden Globe for Best Comedy because everything is a lie. Sure, we've already covered that the Golden Globes are a sham; a combination of desperation and corruption that gets wrapped up into one nonsensical display of self-indulgence — but sometimes things happen that can still surprise you.
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https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/10/...2016-best-comedy-musical-the-martian-nonsense

 

[playahaitian]

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[therealjondoe]

Horror movies rarely get honored

 

[Leatherf7ce]

Horror movies rarely get honored

I don't know if the Globes even have a horror category which is why the studio put it in the comedy. I can't believe this is being discussed so much (not here, per se, I mean all the articles and hashtags it generated) when the answer is obvious. Peele just joked on Twitter it was a documentary

 

[IT IS WHAT IT IS]

Horror movies rarely get honored

They could have classified it as a drama then...

 

[Dark19]

Horror movies rarely get honored

Its More of a Thriller Tho Than Hack and Slash Horror Movie

 

[Darth Furious]

They did the same thing with The Martian.

Yep. They don't have enough categories so they put it in where it can fit in.

WTF!!! Too many subliminals to read into this or just outright blatant
disregard for the truth.

Nah, this is a strategy. They WANT get out to win some awards. That makes it a sell to Academy voters too.

Horror movies rarely get honored

Right again.

They could have classified it as a drama then...

Nah. Too much strong competition. I know it sounds all kinda wrong but this is a good move. Shit, they could put Logan in that category and that would be an uphill fight. I dunno what kinda marketing awards push Fox is doing but it should be with Logan. I think they are pushing Apes.

I think Get Out has a VERY good chance of winning some shit.


oNE

 

[DaddyDiesel]

Nah, this is a strategy. They WANT get out to win some awards. That makes it a sell to Academy voters too.


I think Get Out has a VERY good chance of winning some shit.


oNE

Ok, I wasn't sure who was directly responsible for it going into the comedic category, if so that makes sense but
if they had no say so in it then I would be still be leary of the motives. Still kinda messed up that a movie with this
kind of message is being entered as a comedy, even if it is to garner awards, ultimately an Oscar for Best Comedy,
hmmmm.

 

[dik cashmere]

Jordan Peele Challenges Golden Globes Classifying ‘Get Out’ As a Comedy: ‘What Are You Laughing At?

Before he directed “Get Out,” Jordan Peele was best known as a comedy figure, one half of the famed “Key & Peele” duo. His first feature transformed Peele’s reputation: As “Get Out” grossed over $250 million worldwide, Peele became known first and foremost as a filmmaker, with his racially-tinged story about rich white people who keep black people under mind control striking audiences as both outrageous and eerily familiar. No matter the absurd premise, “Get Out” explores the paranoia and victimization of the African American experience with palpable suspense and ideas that go well beyond the realm of punchlines.

Nevertheless, as the movie careens through awards season, Golden Globes voters will be considering “Get Out” in the Best Musical or Comedy category, not for Best Drama. This outcome has prompted plenty of online backlash, and a tweet from Peele calling the movie a documentary, acknowledging the limitations of those categories.

At a lunch event for the movie at New York’s Lincoln Ristorante, Peele elaborated on his reservations. “The problem is, it’s not a movie that can really be put into a genre box,” he said in an interview prior to the lunch. “Originally, I set out to make a horror movie. I ended up showing it to people and hearing, you know, it doesn’t even feel like horror. It’s in this thriller world. So it was a social thriller.”

While Universal submitted “Get Out” as a comedy to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Peele clearly had no input into that decision. “I don’t think it worked like that,” he said. “I think it was just submitted.” In fact, submissions are made to individual categories, but the HFPA makes the final decision about which categories each film falls into. A rep for Peele did not respond to a request to clarify whether the movie had been submitted as a comedy without his input.

Indeed, Peele offered a compelling argument against the comedy category for his movie. “What the movie is about is not funny,” he said. “I’ve had many black people come up to me and say, ‘man, this is the movie we’ve been talking about for a while and you did it.’ That’s a very powerful thing. For that to be put in a smaller box than it deserves is where the controversy comes from.”

Of course, part of the secret to the success of “Get Out” stems from its ability to combine multiple types of experiences into a single unexpected narrative. “I think the issue here is that the movie subverts the idea of all genres,” Peele said. “Call it what you want, but the movie is an expression of my truth, my experience, the experiences of a lot of black people, and minorities. Anyone who feels like the other. Any conversation that limits what it can be is putting it in a box.”

But if I can be honest this is weird to me… Their is nothing funny about racism… Was it that unrealistic lol https://t.co/5xSXBmatfP

— Lil Rel Howery (@LilRel4) November 14, 2017

In the midst of a frenzied awards campaign, Peele is staying busy. Along with “Get Out” producer Sean McKittrick, Peele’s MonkeyPaw Productions is hard at work on Spike Lee’s “Black Klansman,” which is now shooting in New York. The movie, based on retired police detective Ron Stallworth’s account of his ability to infiltrate a KKK group in the late seventies, stars John David Washington (son of Denzel). The project originated as a screenplay by Charlie Watchel and David Rabinowitz. “It’s dope,” Peele said. “It’s such an amazing story, and the performances he’s getting, the shots he’s getting, are beautiful. I read this script maybe five times in a year, giving notes, and I got the script to Spike. He called me the next day and he knew it better than I did already. Since that moment I’ve been watching what a real professional looks like in terms of being able to see the big picture and know what needs to be fixed.”

Peele’s company is also developing a reboot of “The Twilight Zone” for CBS, though he said the news about that project got out a little too early in the development process. “I was skeptical of the idea of rebooting it,” he said, “but the reality of the situation struck me — how many times have you heard in the past year that it feels like you’ve woken up in the Twilight Zone? If ever there was a time to go back in and explore society with these allegories, these parables, it’s now. It’s still very early.”

Meanwhile, he’s also working on writing his next feature, which he has yet to discuss publicly. Notably, none of his upcoming projects fall into the comedy vein. As for “Get Out,” he’s willing to accept the HFPA’s outcome. “This is all gravy to me, that people are still talking about it,” he said. “The major point to identify here is that we don’t want our truth trivialized. The label of comedy is often a trivial thing. The real question is, what are you laughing at? Are you laughing at the horror, the suffering? Are you disregarding what’s real about this project? That’s why I said, yeah — it’s a documentary.”






http://www.indiewire.com/2017/11/jordan-peele-response-get-out-golden-globes-comedy-1201897841/amp/

 

[exiledking]

Wait. It's not a comedy?

 

[playahaitian]

Yep. They don't have enough categories so they put it in where it can fit in.




Nah, this is a strategy. They WANT get out to win some awards. That makes it a sell to Academy voters too.



Right again.



Nah. Too much strong competition. I know it sounds all kinda wrong but this is a good move. Shit, they could put Logan in that category and that would be an uphill fight. I dunno what kinda marketing awards push Fox is doing but it should be with Logan. I think they are pushing Apes.

I think Get Out has a VERY good chance of winning some shit.


oNE

^^^

very good points

 

[Darth Furious]

Ok, I wasn't sure who was directly responsible for it going into the comedic category, if so that makes sense but
if they had no say so in it then I would be still be leary of the motives. Still kinda messed up that a movie with this
kind of message is being entered as a comedy, even if it is to garner awards, ultimately an Oscar for Best Comedy,
hmmmm.

I agree. It seems really odd. Matter fact, I wouldn't be surprised if something like Thor Ragnarok or Spidey Homecoming or even like a Creed get a nod in this category. When I seen The Martian in there before, it heped me to their strategy.

^^^

very good points

I hope it works legit.

They offered that man Akira... I know he got some serious Hollyhood weight behind him now but I'm glad he didn't take it.

There is the Black Klansman screenplay that is up next on his list. I WISH I could've heard that script pitch. This shit sounds like FIRE. The only thing I'm concerned about is Spike Lee's involvement. Best thing he has done in years was Inside Man. That was some quality filmmaking and I don't know if he can still rock like that.


oNE

 

[Coldchi]

Comedy huh?
white peoples

 

[Texas Catdaddy]

Ok, I wasn't sure who was directly responsible for it going into the comedic category, if so that makes sense but
if they had no say so in it then I would be still be leary of the motives. Still kinda messed up that a movie with this
kind of message is being entered as a comedy, even if it is to garner awards, ultimately an Oscar for Best Comedy,
hmmmm.

Ain't bout to read all this but this where I'm at .....