'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.

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.”

Source: ew.com

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

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

fukk these racist award shows.

Black people need to stop showing up.

Let Hollyweird die.

 

[Black Hans]

It is a comedy It's a comedy-horror movie

It's written and directed by Jordan Peele, a COMEDIAN!!!

 

[George's Dilemma]

It is a dark comedy. I don't really have a problem with that designation.

 

[DamienWayne]

It was a horror,it had very little comedy in it. it had some comic relief but to say it was a comedy is reaching

 

[No Hook]

It was more of a thriller/comedy. It wasn't a horror movie at all

 

[IrateMastermind]

The beauty of this movie is it blended the two genres masterfully.

This is the first movie where opinions were split on what it was. I thought it was a comedy. I laughed a lot at this movie. My brother and homeboy thought it was comedy. My wife, Mom and brother’s wife thought it was a scary movie.

I can’t wrap my mind around how this movie could be taken seriously to a point of being horrified or scared.

Regardless, Jordan Peele created one of the best genre ambiguous movies ever. I wouldn’t be mad at either designation.

 

[Dr. Acula]

Its a "dark comedy".

In the vein of Coen Brothers style films. Kind of hard to designate. It could easily be classified as a horror, comedy, thriller, or drama.

 

[dontreadthis]

don't the studios/creators pretty much set what genre they want to enter as?

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

I thought it was a documentary :jbhmmdup:

 

[Sensitive Christian Grey]

It's funny but the horror/thriller elements are easily more compelling than the comedy, so it shouldn't be designated this way

 

[George's Dilemma]

The beauty of this movie is it blended the two genres masterfully.

This is the first movie where opinions were split on what it was. I thought it was a comedy. I laughed a lot at this movie. My brother and homeboy thought it was comedy. My wife, Mom and brother’s wife thought it was a scary movie.

I can’t wrap my mind around how this movie could be taken seriously to a point of being horrified or scared.

Regardless, Jordan Peele created one of the best genre ambiguous movies ever. I wouldn’t be mad at either designation.

Yeah he nailed it. As an oldhead it reminded me of the old B-movies that used to come on channel USA on Saturday nights back in the day. Those flicks blended comedy and horror well. The Evil Dead series, Army of Darkness, etc..

 

[I Really Mean It]

All the praise Get Out received from white America makes me not really give a fukk. I'm always skeptical of black art that's praised by white people, because they never really appreciate anything that truly holds them to account. Get Out was a little too cute for me.

 

[Rockstar Mom]

Golden Globes doesnt have a horror/thriller category, so where should it go?

 

[TL15]

You guys do know that there is no horror category at The Golden Globes right?