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Jordan Peele awards and nominations
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American actor, writer, and director Jordan Peele has received a variety of awards and nominations for his work.
Jordan Peele has been nominated for eight Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including seven for the Comedy Central sketch series Key and Peele which ran from 2012 to 2015. He and Keegan-Michael Key won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series in 2016. Peele also received critical acclaim for his directorial film debut, a satirical horror film, Get Out (2017) for which he received three Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay, the latter of which he won. He also received British Academy Film Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.
Major associations
Britannia Awards
Year |
Category |
Nominated work |
Result |
Ref. |
2019 |
John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Excellence in Directing |
Won |
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Year |
Category |
Nominated work |
Result |
Ref. |
2008 |
Original Music and Lyrics |
MADtv ("Sad Fitty Cent") |
Nominated |
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2014 |
Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series |
Key & Peele |
Nominated |
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2015 |
Outstanding Variety Sketch Series |
Nominated |
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Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series |
Nominated |
Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special |
Key and Peele Super Bowl Special |
Nominated |
Outstanding Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Program |
Key and Peele Presents: The Ascension |
Nominated |
2016 |
Outstanding Variety Sketch Series |
Key & Peele |
Won |
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Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series |
Nominated |
Year |
Category |
Nominated work |
Result |
Ref. |
2018 |
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy |
Get Out |
Nominated |
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2019 |
Best Motion Picture – Drama |
BlacKkKlansman |
Nominated |
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Guild Awards
Writers Guild Award
Year |
Category |
Work |
Result |
Ref. |
2013 |
Best Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) – Series |
Key & Peele |
Nominated |
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2016 |
Best Comedy/Variety – Sketch Series |
Nominated |
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2018 |
Best Original Screenplay |
Get Out |
Won |
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2023 |
Nope |
Nominated |
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Directors Guild Award
Producers Guild Award
Year |
Category |
Work |
Result |
Ref. |
2018 |
Best Theatrical Motion Picture |
Get Out |
Nominated |
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2019 |
BlacKkKlansman |
Nominated |
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Screen Actors Guild Awards
Year |
Category |
Work |
Result |
Ref. |
2016 |
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series |
Key & Peele |
Nominated |
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Other awards
Year |
Award |
Category |
Work |
Result |
2013 |
Peabody Award
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Key & Peele |
Won |
2014 |
NAACP Image Award |
Outstanding Variety–Series or Special |
Nominated |
American Comedy Award |
Best Alternative Comedy Series |
Won |
Comedy Actor – TV |
Nominated |
Best Comedy Writing – TV |
Nominated |
2015 |
People's Choice Award |
Favorite Sketch Comedy TV Show |
Nominated |
NAACP Image Award |
Outstanding Comedy Series |
Nominated |
2016 |
NAACP Image Awards |
Nominated |
Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series |
Nominated |
2017 |
MTV Movie & TV Awards |
Movie of the Year |
Get Out |
Nominated |
Best Fight Against the System |
Nominated |
Capri Hollywood International Film Festival |
Best Picture |
Won |
Imagine Film Festival |
Silver Scream Award |
Won |
BET Awards |
Best Movie |
Nominated |
Gotham Independent Film Awards |
Best Feature |
Won |
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award |
Nominated |
Best Screenplay |
Won |
Audience Awards |
Won |
Detroit Film Critics Society |
Best Film |
Nominated |
Best Director |
Nominated |
Best Screenplay |
Nominated |
Best Breakthrough |
Won |
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association |
Best Film |
Won |
Best Director |
Nominated |
Best Original Screenplay |
Won |
Boston Society of Film Critics |
Best New Filmmaker |
Won |
British Independent Film Awards |
Best International Independent Film |
Won |
New York Film Critics Online |
Top Ten Films |
Won |
Best Debut as Director |
Won |
Best Screenplay |
Won |
San Francisco Film Critics Circle |
Best Film |
Nominated |
Best Director |
Nominated |
Best Original Screenplay |
Won |
Toronto Film Critics Association |
Best First Feature |
Won |
Best Screenplay |
Won |
San Diego Film Critics Society |
Best Film |
Won |
Best Director |
Nominated |
Best Original Screenplay |
Won |
African-American Film Critics Association |
Best Picture |
Won |
Top Ten Films |
Won |
Best Director |
Won |
Best Screenplay |
Won |
Chicago Film Critics Association |
Best Director |
Nominated |
Best Original Screenplay |
Won |
Most Promising Filmmaker |
Nominated |
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association |
Best Film |
5th Place |
Best Director |
5th Place |
Dublin Film Critics' Circle |
Best Film |
2nd Place |
Best Director |
3rd Place |
Best Screenplay |
Won |
Breakthrough Artist of the Year |
Nominated |
St. Louis Film Critics Association |
Best Picture |
Nominated |
Best Director |
Nominated |
Best Original Screenplay |
Nominated |
Seattle Film Critics Society |
Best Picture of the Year |
Won |
Best Director |
Nominated |
Best Screenplay |
Nominated |
Florida Film Critics Circle |
Best Film |
Nominated |
Best Director |
Nominated |
Best Original Screenplay |
Won |
Best First Film |
Won |
Online Film Critics Society |
Best Picture |
Won |
Best Director |
Runner-up |
Best Original Screenplay |
Won |
2018 |
AACTA International Awards |
Best Screenplay |
Nominated |
National Board of Review |
Best Directorial Debut |
Won |
Critics' Choice Awards |
Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie |
Won |
Best Director |
Nominated |
Best Original Screenplay |
Won |
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards |
Best Screenplay |
Won |
London Film Critics' Circle Awards |
Screenwriter of the Year |
Nominated |
Satellite Awards |
Best Director |
Won |
Best Original Screenplay |
Nominated |
Independent Spirit Awards |
Best Feature |
Won |
Best Director |
Won |
Best Screenplay |
Nominated |
Saturn Awards |
Best Director |
Nominated |
Best Writing |
Nominated |
2019 |
Best Director |
Us |
Won |
Best Writing |
Nominated |
2022 |
Best Director |
Nope |
Nominated |
Best Writing |
Nominated |
In 2020, he was named the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards' Monster Kid of the Year.