Jordan Peele becomes the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, as well as the first African American to be nominated for producing, writing and directing in the same year.
Jordan Peele is deserving of this years BFCC Industry Pioneer award because of his hugely successful pioneering genre redefining film 'Get Out'. Peele has not only defied box office expectations but helped redefine a genre that very few African American filmmakers ever get to work in. This powerful storyteller has reminded the world that while horror films remains a lucrative entertainment genre there is much room for deeper meaning and social commentary within the context of the "scary movie", the very essence of the word Pioneer.
