--- ---  # Jordan Peele Is Keeping His Oscar in the Most Horrifying Place Imaginable. Only _Get Out_ Fans Will Recognize It.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 6, 2018 5:43 PM UTC  TOPSHOT - Director Jordan Peele poses in the press room with the Oscar for best original screenplay during the 90th Annual Academy Awards on March 4, 2018, in Hollywood, California. / AFP PHOTO / FREDERIC J. BROWN (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images) TOPSHOT - Director Jordan Peele poses in the press room with the Oscar for best original screenplay during the 90th Annual Academy Awards on March 4, 2018, in Hollywood, California. / AFP PHOTO / FREDERIC J. BROWN (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)FREDERIC J. BROWN—AFP/Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 6, 2018 5:43 PM UTC [Jordan Peele](http://time.com/5185301/jordan-peele-get-out-oscar-reactions/) has already found the perfect place to display his new Oscar and it’s next to a pivotal part of the [_Get Out_ ](http://time.com/5159850/jordan-peele-get-out-fears-and-cultural-hope/)set. The writer and director made history on Sunday night at [the Academy Awards](http://time.com/5181916/oscars-red-carpet-photos-2018/) when he took home [the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay](http://time.com/5184780/jordan-peele-oscars-best-screenplay/) for his critically acclaimed horror film, _Get Out_, as the first African American recipient in that category ever. On Monday night, Peele took to his Twitter to share with his followers where he had found a home for his Oscar — sitting face-to-face with the Emmy Award he won for _Key & Peele_ in 2016\. Peel humorously captioned the photo: “This is exactly what it looked like watching my wife give birth.” Peele and wife, fellow comedian Chelsea Peretti, [welcomed a son, Beaumont Gino](http://people.com/babies/jordan-peele-chelsea-peretti-welcome-son-beaumont-gino/), last summer. > [](https://twitter.com/JordanPeele/status/970790443112841216) However, one of his Peele’s followers was quick to notice something sinister and familiar in the background behind the statuettes — the brown leather chair that ushered Chris into the sunken place in _Get Out_, something that Peele confirmed was the real deal. > [](https://twitter.com/JordanPeele/status/970812178314838017) Jordan Peele Keeps Oscar Next to Creepy Chair From Get Out ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5188033/jordan-peele-get-out-chair-oscars-2018/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5188033/jordan-peele-get-out-chair-oscars-2018/"},"headline":"Jordan Peele Is Keeping His Oscar in the Most Horrifying Place Imaginable. Only Get Out Fans Will Recognize It.","datePublished":"2018-03-06T17:43:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:51:11.065Z","description":"Peele won Best Original Screenplay at the 2018 Academy Awards","url":"https://time.com/5188033/jordan-peele-get-out-chair-oscars-2018/","keywords":["Newsfeed","awards"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6fdbeeddbfbeba89/698929dd929fadd13dbefd8b/jordan-peele-get-out-chair-oscars-2018.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6fdbeeddbfbeba89/698929dd929fadd13dbefd8b/jordan-peele-get-out-chair-oscars-2018.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TOPSHOT-US-OSCARS-PRESSROOM","caption":"TOPSHOT-US-OSCARS-PRESSROOM","creditText":"FREDERIC J. BROWN—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5188033/jordan-peele-get-out-chair-oscars-2018/","name":"Jordan Peele Is Keeping His Oscar in the Most Horrifying Place Imaginable. Only Get Out Fans Will Recognize It."}}]}] ```