Jordan Peele becomes first African-American to win best original screenplay Oscar

Jordan Peele won Best Original Screenplay for Get Out, at the 90th Oscar Academy Awards held on Sunday night.

This makes him the first black writer to win the coveted award.

“I just won an Oscar. WTF!?” He tweeted.

In his acceptance speech, Peele acknowledged how hard it was for him to get the film made. He stopped writing it 20 times because he didn’t think anyone would let him do it.

Josh Gad called Peele’s win unbelievably well deserved saying in his tweet: “This just made my night.”

Oprah said she was so happy and proud to see Peele recognised for his first film as writer-director.

When speaking to journalists, Peele said: “An award like this is much bigger than me. This is about paying if forward to the young people who might not believe they can achieve the highest honour in whatever craft they want to push for.”