Profile | プロフィール
Born / 生年月日
February 21, 1979 | New York City, New York, USA
Age / 年齢
46 years old (as of 2025)
Occupation / 職業
Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Actor, Comedian
映画監督、脚本家、プロデューサー、俳優、コメディアン
Nationality / 国籍
American (アメリカ)
Biography | 経歴
[English] Jordan Peele is the most formally original and culturally significant filmmaker to emerge from American horror in decades. His work is defined by a masterly fusion of comedic intelligence—honed through years in sketch comedy—and a rigorous engagement with the textures of Black American social experience. By reclaiming the horror genre as a precise instrument for dissecting structural racism and racial anxiety, Peele has constructed a filmography of extraordinary architectural depth. From the cultural landmark Get Out (2017), which invented the “Sunken Place” as a haunting metaphor for subjugation, to the ambitious duality of Us (2019) and the historically grounded spectacle of Nope (2022), his trajectory represents a profound shift in American cinema. With an aggregate global box office exceeding $680 million, Peele has proven that genre filmmaking can be both a massive commercial force and a serious political art form.
[日本語] ジョーダン・ピールは、過去数十年間のアメリカ・ホラー映画界が生んだ、最も形式的に独創的で文化的に重要な映画作家です。その作家性は、長年のスケッチコメディで磨かれた喜劇的知性と、ブラック・アメリカンの社会的経験に対する真摯な洞察の融合によって定義されます。彼はホラーというジャンルを、現代社会に潜む構造的人種差別や不安を解剖するための「最も精緻な外科手術用メス」として再定義しました。隷属のメタファーとして「サンケン・プレイス（沈められた場所）」という言葉を定着させた記念碑的事務***『ゲット・アウト』（2017年）から、二重性の恐怖を描いた野心作『アス』（2019年）、そして映画史の起源と黒人の不可視性に光を当てた『ノープ』***（2022年）に至るまで、その歩みはアメリカ映画界における巨大な転換点となりました。監督作の累計興行収入が6億8000万ドルを超えるという事実は、ジャンル映画が強力な商業的成功を収めつつ、同時に極めて深刻な政治的批評たり得ることを証明しています。
Filmography | 監督作品
Feature Films as Director (監督長編作品)
|
Year |
Title (English / Japanese) |
Awards/Note |
|---|---|---|
|
2017 |
Oscar Best Original Screenplay 🏆 Oscar nom. Best Picture 🌟 Oscar nom. Best Director 🌟 Oscar nom. Best Actor (Daniel Kaluuya) 🌟 / Daniel Kaluuya / Allison Williams / Bradley Whitford / Catherine Keener / Lil Rel Howery / AFI Top 10 Films 🏆 / Sunken Place / Social horror / Racial anxiety / Career debut / Career formal summit / $55.5M domestic opening |
|
|
2019 |
Us / アス |
Lupita Nyong’o / Winston Duke / Shahadi Wright Joseph / Evan Alex / Tethered / Doppelgänger / American underclass allegory / Most symbolically complex |
|
2022 |
Nope / ノープ |
Daniel Kaluuya / Keke Palmer / Steven Yeun / Brandon Perea / Michael Wincott / UFO / Western / Eadweard Muybridge / Black cinema history / Spectacle and gaze / Most formally inventive |
Television — Selected (テレビ — 主要作品)
|
Year |
Title |
Network |
Note |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2003–08 |
MADtv |
Fox |
Cast member and writer / Foundational comedy formation |
|
2012–15 |
Key & Peele |
Comedy Central |
Co-creator / Co-star / Peabody Award 🏆 Emmy Award 🏆 / Keegan-Michael Key / Most significant pre-film creative work / Racial social commentary |
|
2019 |
The Twilight Zone (reboot) |
CBS All Access / Paramount+ |
Executive Producer / Host / 2 seasons / Rod Serling legacy |
As Producer — Selected (プロデューサーとして — 主要作品)
|
Year |
Title |
Director |
Note |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2019 |
Us |
Jordan Peele |
Own production |
|
2021 |
Candyman |
Nia DaCosta |
Monkeypaw Productions / Sequel / $25M budget / $79M worldwide / Bernard Rose original / Nia DaCosta directorial expansion |
|
2022 |
Nope |
Jordan Peele |
Own production |
|
2022 |
The Invitation |
Jessica M. Thompson |
Monkeypaw Productions |
|
2023 |
Monkey Man |
Dev Patel |
Executive Producer |
Awards & Recognition | 受賞歴
Academy Awards (アカデミー賞)
Winner: 1 🏆
- Best Original Screenplay – Get Out (2018) 🏆
Nominated: 3 🌟
- Best Picture – Get Out (2018) 🌟 (as producer)
- Best Director – Get Out (2018) 🌟
- Best Actor – Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out (2018) 🌟
Writers Guild of America (WGA)
Winner: 1 🏆
- Best Original Screenplay – Get Out (2018) 🏆
Directors Guild of America (DGA)
Nominated:
- Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film – Get Out (2018) 🌟
Producers Guild of America (PGA)
Nominated:
- Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer – Get Out (2018) 🌟
Independent Spirit Awards
Winner: Multiple 🏆
- Best Feature – Get Out (2018) 🏆
- Best Director – Get Out (2018) 🏆
- Best Screenplay – Get Out (2018) 🏆
- Best First Feature – Get Out (2018) 🏆
Emmy Awards
Winner: Multiple 🏆 (for Key & Peele)
- Outstanding Variety Sketch Series – Key & Peele (2016) 🏆
- Multiple additional Emmy wins and nominations for Key & Peele across its run
Peabody Award
Winner: 1 🏆
- Key & Peele (2013) 🏆
American Film Institute (AFI)
- AFI Top 10 Films of the Year – Get Out (2017) 🏆
- AFI Top 10 Films of the Year – Us (2019) 🏆
- AFI Top 10 Films of the Year – Nope (2022) 🏆
Other Honours
- Get Out — Named to numerous critics’ lists of the best films of the decade (2010s); consistently cited in discussions of the most important American films of the twenty-first century
- National Board of Review — Best Original Screenplay, Get Out (2017)
- Recognized as the third Black filmmaker in the history of the Academy Awards to receive the Best Director nomination (after John Singleton for Boyz n the Hood in 1992 and Lee Daniels for Precious in 2010)
- Monkeypaw Productions — his production company, through which an increasing range of horror and genre projects by filmmakers including Nia DaCosta have been developed and produced
Box Office Achievements | 興行成績
| Film | Worldwide Box Office |
|---|---|
| Get Out (2017) | $255.4 million |
| Us (2019) | $255.1 million |
| Nope (2022) | $170.9 million |
Career worldwide box office as director: Over $681 million
As producer (selected):
| Film | Worldwide Box Office |
|---|---|
| Candyman (2021) | $79.0 million |
Total career box office (director + producer): Over $760 million
