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'''''Get Out''''' is a 2017 American <!--The consensus is to list the main genre only in lead-->[[psychological horror film]] written, co-produced, and directed by [[Jordan Peele]] in his [[List of directorial debuts|directorial debut]]. It stars [[Daniel Kaluuya]], [[Allison Williams (actress)|Allison Williams]], [[Lil Rel Howery]], [[LaKeith Stanfield]], [[Bradley Whitford]], [[Caleb Landry Jones]], [[Stephen Root]], [[Catherine Keener]] and [[Betty Gabriel]]. The plot follows a young black man (Kaluuya), who uncovers shocking secrets when he meets the family of his white girlfriend (Williams).

It was chosen by the [[National Board of Review]], the [[American Film Institute]], and ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' as one of the top ten films of the year. It won many [[List_of_accolades_received_by_Get_OutList of accolades received by Get Out|accolades]], including the [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay]] for Peele at the [[90th Academy Awards]], with additional nominations for [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] and [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] (Kaluuya). It also earned five nominations at the [[23rd Critics' Choice Awards]], two at the [[75th Golden Globe Awards]] and two at the [[71st British Academy Film Awards]]. ''Get Out'' has been cited by critics as one of the [[best films]] of the 21st century.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/g2509/movies-to-watch-before-30/ | title=The 100 Best Movies of All Time: The Ultimate Must-Watch Films | magazine=Marie Claire | date=November 7, 2023 | last1=Knappenberger | first1=Brooke | last2=LeGardye| first2=Quinci}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.timeout.com/film/best-movies-of-all-time | title=100 Best Movies of All Time That You Should Watch Immediately | date=December 14, 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-movies-21st-century/ | title=Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 50 Best Films of the 21st Century (So Far) | website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] | date=April 6, 2023 }}</ref>

On a suburban street at night, a black man walks alone and talks on the phone. A car pulls up to the curb alongside the man, who senses trouble and starts to walk away. A person wearing a helmet that conceals their face tackles the man to the ground, subdues him, and hauls him into the car, which then drives off into the night.

26Twenty-six-year-old Chris Washington, a black photographer, travels to [[upstate New York]] for a weekend getaway to meet the family of his white girlfriend, Rose Armitage. He has uncomfortable conversations with her parents, Dean, a neurosurgeon, and Missy, a psychiatrist. Her brother Jeremy arrives and tells embarrassing stories about his sister at dinner. Chris witnesses eerie behavior from the family's black servants, Georgina and Walter.

Missy tricks Chris into a hypnotherapy session, using the noise of a spoon stirring a teacup as a hypnotic trigger, to cure his smoking [[addiction]]. While in a trance, he confesses that his mother was killed in a [[Hit and run|hit-and-run]] when he was a child and he feels responsible as he waited too long to call for help. At Missy's prompting, hehis consciousness falls into a dark void she calls the "sunken place", where no one can hear him. The next morning, he no longer feels a desire to smoke.

Dozens of wealthy white people arrive for the ArmitageArmitages's annual get-together; Chris feels uncomfortable with their remarks about him. He meets a blind art dealer, Jim Hudson, who takes an interest in Chris's photography, and another black man, Logan King, whom he finds familiar. Like Walter and Georgina, Logan behaves oddly, and is married to a white woman thirty years his senior. Chris tries to photograph Logan; when the camera flash goes off, Logan becomes hysterical, rushing at Chris and frantically shouting at him to "get out".

Chris awakens strapped to an armchair in the basement. In a video call, Hudson explains that the family transplants wealthy white people's brains into others' bodies, granting them preferred physical characteristics. The host's consciousness remains powerless in the sunken place. HudsonHe does not care about Chris's race, and only wants his eyesight. Meanwhile, Rod, who has been trying to contact Chris and suspects a conspiracy, goes to the police to report Chris as a missing person. The police laugh him off due to his fixation on [[sex trafficking]].

Rose and Walter, who is possessed by Rose's grandfather Roman, arrive to apprehend Chris. He uses the flash on his phone to incapacitate Roman. Walter temporarily regains control of his body and takes Rose's rifle and shoots her and then himself. Rod arrives in a TSA car and picks up Chris, leaving Rose bleeding on the road. <!--- DO NOT CHANGE based on whether you believe she dies or not. This is left unanswered.- -->

Peele considered several other endings, some of which are included on the DVD and Blu-ray release. In one ending, Rod breaks into the estate, finds Chris, and calls his name, but Chris responds, "I assure you, I don't know who you're talking about."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/movies/jordan-peele-reveals-get-alternate-ending-095942268.html|title=Jordan Peele Reveals 'Get Out' Has Alternate Ending|last=Paschal|first=Nicholas|work=Yahoo|date=May 15, 2017|access-date=May 16, 2017}}</ref>

At the [[90th Academy Awards]], the film earned four nominations: [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]], [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]], and [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] for [[Daniel Kaluuya]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The 90th Academy Awards |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2018 |access-date=September 26, 2022 |website=oscars.org|date=April 15, 2019 }}</ref> Peele became the third person (after [[Warren Beatty]] and [[James L. Brooks]]) to earn Best Picture, Director and Screenplay nominations for a debut film, and the first African-American winner for Best Original Screenplay (and fourth overall nominated, after [[John Singleton]], [[Spike Lee]], and [[Suzanne de Passe]]).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/01/jordan-peele-makes-oscars-history-with-get-out-nominations/|title=Jordan Peele makes Oscars history with Get Out nominations|date=January 24, 2018|work=Consequence of Sound|first=Eddie|last= Fu|access-date=January 28, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref> It also became the 6th horror film to be nominated for best picture, after ''[[The Exorcist (movie)|The Exorcist]]'', ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'', ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'', ''[[The Silence of the Lambs (film)|The Silence of the Lambs]]'' and ''[[Black Swan (film)|Black Swan]]''. ''Get Out'' divided Oscar voters, with many older members of the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] dismissing it or choosing not to see it. According to [[New York (magazine)|''Vulture'']], new voting members said they ran into "interference" from more senior members when it came to evaluating the film as [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]. "I had multiple conversations with longtime Academy members who were like, 'That was not an Oscar film,{{'"}} according to a new voter. "Honestly, a few of them had not even seen it and they were saying it, so dispelling that kind of thing has been super important."<ref>{{cite news |first= Kyle|last=Buchanan|author2= Stacey Wilson Hunt |author3= Chris Lee|url= http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/how-new-oscar-voters-are-changing-the-way-the-academy-thinks.html |title=We Polled New Oscar Voters: How Are They Changing the Way the Academy Thinks? |work=[[New York (magazine)|Vulture]] |date=Feb 2018 |access-date= January 9, 2020 }}</ref> One anonymous Oscar voter told ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' they felt alienated by the Oscar campaign: "Instead of focusing on the fact that this was an entertaining little horror movie that made quite a bit of money, they started trying to suggest it had deeper meaning than it does, and, as far as I'm concerned, they played the [[race card]], and that really turned me off. In fact, at one of the luncheons, the lead actor [Kaluuya], who is not from the United States, was giving us a lecture on racism in America and how black lives matter, and I thought, 'What does this have to do with ''Get Out''? They're trying to make me think that if I don't vote for this movie, I'm a racist.' I was really offended."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/brutally-honest-oscar-ballot-get-filmmakers-played-race-card-just-sick-meryl-streep-1090440/item/best-picture-2018-brutally-honest-oscar-ballot-2-1090446 |title=Brutally Honest Oscar Ballot #2: 'Get Out' Filmmakers 'Played the Race Card,' 'Just Sick of' Meryl Streep |work=The Hollywood Reporter |first=Scott|last=Feinberg|date=March 2, 2018 |access-date=August 10, 2018 }}</ref>