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Greta Gerwig happily poses alongside Jordan Peele while attending the Writers Guild’s 2018 Beyond Words event held at the Writers Guild Theater on Thursday (February 1) in Beverly Hills, Calif.

The Oscar-nominated writer-director’s were joined at the event by The Big Sick‘s Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, Shape of Water‘s Guillermo Del Toro and Vanessa Taylor, Molly’s Game‘s Aaron Sorkin, and The Imitation Game‘s Graham Moore.

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Jordan recently visited the U.C.L.A. students studying his work for Get Out, and shared that Whoopi Goldberg accepting her Oscar for Ghost in 1991 taught him “there’s no ceiling for people like me.”

“I remember internalizing that,” Jordan told the students (via Vanity Fair). “Like, wow, she’s speaking to me, ’cause this is something I want to do, I feel like I can do. When those nominations came together last week, I realized the awards and the acknowledgment is bigger than me, and bigger than my own personal accomplishment. By seeing my work be recognized this way, there’s a whole generation of people who will be uplifted by that. And that’s why I’m here.”

“I never would’ve made Get Out without the dream, and part of the dream for me was Whoopi, was the Oscars, was realizing that there wasn’t a ceiling for people like me,” Jordan continued, revealing that he cold-called Whoopi after finding out Get Out‘s nominations. “I lost it in the middle of the call, because it’s not something I think about all the time, and part of telling that story was this realization that I have the opportunity to help show others that they can achieve their dream in the same way. She said, ‘Look, thank you, sometimes you put something out there, and you don’t know if someone’s hearing it or not’. It was just one of the best calls I’ve ever had.”

Graham Moore gave one of the most memorable and touching acceptance speeches after the 2015 Oscars last night – and afterwards, talked to reporters and clarified that he isn’t gay.

“I’m not gay, but I’ve never talked publicly about depression before or any of that and that was so much of what the movie was about and it was one of the things that drew me to Alan Turing so much,” Graham told BuzzFeed. “I think we all feel like weirdos for different reasons. Alan had his share of them and I had my own and that’s what always moved me so much about his story.”

As for the speech, Graham did have it loosely planned out. “I am incredibly superstitious, so I had it loosely in my head. It’s the kind of thing that I’ve imagined since I was a teenager. It was weird to get on the stage and say the things that I’ve been imagining in the shower and in front of mirrors. I think everyone practices their Oscars acceptance speech with a shampoo bottle and I’ve done my fair share of them. It’s really surreal to be able to do it in real life.”

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Graham Moore won his first Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Imitation Game tonight and his acceptance speech won the hearts of many.

“Alan Turing [played by Benedict Cumberbatch] never got to stand on a stage like this and look out at all of these disconcertingly attractive faces. I do! And that’s the most unfair thing I’ve ever heard,” Graham said about the main subject of The Imitation Game.

“So in this brief time here, what I wanted to do was say this: When I was 16 years old, I tried to kill myself because I felt weird and I felt different , and I felt like I did not belong. And now I’m standing here… and so I would like this moment to be for this kid out there who feels like she’s weird or she’s different or she doesn’t fit in anywhere. Yes, you do. I promise you do. Stay weird, stay different and then, when it’s your turn, and you are standing on this stage, please pass the same message to the next person who comes along. Thank you so much!” he concluded.