Over the last few days, Netflix and a faction of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences led by Steven Spielberg have been feuding over eligibility requirements for the Academy Awards. Spielberg plans to ask the Academy to bar films from awards consideration unless they have an exclusive theatrical window before being released to streaming platforms, a move he is making at least partially in response to Roma’s Oscar wins this year. (Roma did have a three-week exclusive theatrical release, but only because director Alfonso Cuarón pressured them into it; other Netflix Oscar contenders like The Ballad of Buster Scruggs got one-week theatrical windows.) Spielberg reportedly plans to ask the Academy to require a four-week exclusive theatrical release before a film is eligible for Academy Awards, which is not long enough to please the theater chains that refuse to show Netflix fare, but still long enough to price out a lot of independent films. The view from Steven Spielberg’s office has a few blind spots. He’ll never have a problem distributing his movies anyway and anywhere he wants to, but as director Ava DuVernay pointed out, Netflix has been willing to put money into the types of films major studios were ignoring:
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