TV is TV, and film lives in the cinema says veteran director.
Steven Spielberg, director of Hollywood classics such as Jaws, Jurassic Park and E. T., has argued that films that debut on streaming services shouldn’t be eligible to win Oscars.
A spokesperson for Spielberg’s production house Amblin Entertainment has told IndieWire that the director aims to lobby for support for new rules restricting the accolades streaming films can win – an issue Spielberg «feels strongly» about – at the Academy’s Board of Governors meeting in April.
Spielberg has previously dismissed the output of Netflix (and by association, Amazon and other streaming services as producing «TV movies», as you can see in the below inerview with ITV News back in March of 2018:
But has this horse already bolted? After weathering a storm of controversy at several awards events including Cannes, Netflix finally had its day in the sun at the 2019 Oscars, with its film Roma picking up three Academy Awards.
