Suzanne de Passe

And Best Original Screenplay, he did win.

Fun Oscar facts, Peele became the third person to earn Best P- Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay nominations for a debut film after Warren Beatty and James L. Brooks, and the first African American winner for Best Original Screenplay, and fourth overall nominated after John Singleton, Spike Lee, and Suzanne de Passe.

It also became the sixth/seventh horror film to be nominated for Best Picture after The Exorcist, Jaws, The Sixth Sense, The Silence of the Lambs, and Black Swan.

And I said sixth/seventh because this was the same year, again, as The Shape of Water.

So, well, I should start with how did, how did Don't Leave Me This Way come into your life?

Well, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes had originally recorded Don't Leave Me This Way, and Suzanne de Passe, who is the person that, that signed me to the label, uh, Motown label, um, and who was now in char- She was in charge of the A&R department.

And so she heard that song by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes and thought that it would be an interesting song recorded from a woman's point of view.

And so she asked me to go out and get the song, listen to it, and let her know if I liked it or not, you know, how I felt about it.