Jordan Peele — Get Out Changed Horror Forever

Peele was half of Key & Peele — a sketch comedy show. His directorial debut, Get Out (2017), was made for $4.5 million, grossed $255 million, won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, and invented an entire subgenre of socially conscious horror. Us ($255M) and Nope ($171M) followed. He became only the third person in history to earn Oscar nominations for producing, writing, AND directing from a debut film. A comedian who made white suburban racism the scariest monster in cinema — and made $700 million doing it. The jump from sketch comedy to auteur horror shouldn't be possible. Jordan didn't care.