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'Get Out' made history Tuesday morning as the Academy announced its nominees for the 90th Oscars.

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00:00Don't come back all bougie, man.

00:01Come back, get your damn pants up to your damn stomach.

00:06Big congratulations are in order for writer-director Jordan Peele.

00:10His comedy horror film Get Out made history Tuesday morning as the Academy

00:13announced its nominees for the 90th Oscars.

00:16Peele's socially aware offering earned a coveted Best Picture nomination,

00:20as well as directing and original screenplay nods for Peele,

00:22making him only the third person in history to earn noms in all three categories

00:27for a directorial debut.

00:28Star Daniel Kaluuya, meanwhile, was nominated for Best Actor.

00:32Peele is also only the fifth African-American to earn a Best Director nomination

00:35in Oscar history. So far, none has won.

00:38Last year, Barry Jenkins was nominated for Moonlight, which went on to win Best Picture.

00:42Steve McQueen made the shortlist in 2013 for 12 Years a Slave, also a Best Picture winner.

00:47Lee Daniels was nominated for Precious in 2009.

00:50And John Singleton became the first ever African-American nominee in the category

00:54in 1991 for Boys in the Hood.

00:56Also worth noting for Get Out is its genre.

00:58Only a handful of horror films have earned Best Picture nominations.

01:02In the 1940s, three thrillers were listed in the category.

01:05Alfred Hitchcock's 1941 film Suspicion and his 1945 offering Spellbound

01:09and George Cukor's Gaslight from 1944.

01:12In 1973, a more traditional horror film, The Exorcist, scared up a Best Picture nomination,

01:18while 1991's The Silence of the Lambs took home the Oscar.

01:21M. Night Shyamalan's 1999 thriller The Sixth Sense is another past film in the genre

01:25to land a Best Picture nomination.

01:27Another interesting factor is Get Out's February 2017 release date.

01:31Most Oscar contenders open in the fall, timed to the heart of awards season.

01:35Are you excited that Get Out has made Oscar history?

01:38Let us know in the comments section.

01:39For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.