Oscars 2018: 8 Most Game-Changing Nominations

1. Get Out - Best Picture, Director, And Actor

Get Out, Jordan Peele's racially charged horror film, was one of the heavy hitters of the nominations, receiving four in total: Best Picture, Best Directing, Best Actor, and Best Original Screenplay.

It's a big deal for a couple of different reasons. One is that Jordan Peele is just the fifth black director to be nominated for Best Director, with Lee Daniels (Precious), Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave), and Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) all nominated in the last ten years, and the first being John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood) back in 1991. Like with Gerwig's nomination in the same category, it's a further sign of things shifting on that front.

It's also one of just a handful of horror movies to be nominated for Best Picture. Even more than superheroes, the Academy has a long-held aversion to scary movies. Alfred Hitchcock was constantly overlooked, as were Universal's classic monster movies, and it wasn't until 1973 a horror movie was nominated for Best Picture - The Exorcist. Since then, depending on how far your definition of 'horror' stretches, we've had Jaws, Silence of the Lambs, The Sixth Sense, and Black Swan (and a few of them are debatable in terms of placement in the genre).

Combined with The Boss Baby (an unlikely pairing), it shows they're allowing more populist films. Combined with Logan, it shows how genre films are gradually being accepted. Combined with Gerwig and a number of others, it shows how barriers are being broken down and, with new membership, the Academy is shifting in the kinds of stories it recognises. It's still far from a perfect system, but it's definitely going in the right direction.

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