'Get Out' Takes Home Critics' Choice Award For Best Screenplay 

Last Thursday was huge for Jordan Peele and his film Get Out.

The horror film about an interracial couple that visits a suburban New England town, won the Critics’ Choice Award for the Best Screenplay and Best Sci-Fi or Horror Movie. The honor was the first of award season for the film that grossed $252 million worldwide —making it the highest grossing debut project for a writer-director with an original screenplay.

“I think people are scared to talk about race and when we suppress things — ideas, thoughts, feelings, fears — they need to get out in some way,” Peele told the Los Angeles Times about the film. “I think Get Out is a film that satisfies the need to think about, discuss and deal with race but it does it in a way that’s more comfortable because it’s fun.”

Also going home with awards were Sterling K. Brown with Best Actor in a Drama Series for his role in This Is Us and RuPaul for Best Reality Show Host for RuPaul’s Drag Race.