>Netflix does not yet have a Best Picture Oscar, but Steven Spielberg is still apparently none too happy about the prospect of it winning one soon. The iconic filmmaker has long made his thoughts about Netflix known, saying last March that he flat-out doesn’t think Netflix movies should be eligible for Oscars. He compared Netflix originals to TV movies, saying, “I don’t believe films that are just given token qualifications in a couple of theaters for less than a week should qualify for the Academy Award nomination.”
>Now, in the wake of three Oscar wins for Netflix’s Roma, including Best Director, Spielberg is prepared to propose a rule change that would rule Netflix films ineligible at an upcoming Academy Board of Governors meeting (he represents the Directors branch on the board). The news comes courtesy of Indiewire, though it’s unclear specifically what rules Spielberg would propose to be changed, and whether Netflix increasing the length of a theatrical window ahead of a streaming release would ease his concerns.
>A spokesman for Amblin had this to say:
>“Steven feels strongly about the difference between the streaming and theatrical situation. He’ll be happy if the others will join [his campaign] when that comes up [at the Academy Board of Governors meeting]. He will see what happens
>So while that whole issue remains in flux, Spielberg’s taking steps to prevent Netflix from gaining even more ground at next year’s Oscars—but not all filmmakers are in agreement. Ava DuVernay, for one, took to Twitter to voice her dissent:
>DuVernay has long been a supporter of the Netflix model, pointing out that movie theaters aren’t always accessible to those with lower income, and especially persons of color. Indeed, people couldn’t even see DuVernay’s civil rights drama Selma in Selma, Alabama or Straight Outta Compton in Compton, California due to lack of access. And the reason Alfonso Cuarón took Roma to Netflix in the first place was because other distributors wouldn’t commit to as wide a potential audience as the streaming service.
I'll support Netflix to fuck Noseberg over and then throw Netflix under the bus once it's achieved this.
Adrian King
the oscar is a literal golden NPC, fuck off, im so sick of hollywood self suck
Josiah Cook
I really don't care either way this literally only effects rich jews.
Jeremiah Price
>old man shouts at technology
How is this even news?
John Gutierrez
>old timey media professional hates change
Gee I wonder where we've seen this before.
Michael Murphy
team flix/streaming. hollywood needs to fucking die already, they've gone unchecked for too long.
Christian Green
well from his point of view, netflix hasn't made the 100's of Holocaust propaganda movies that hollywood has
Joseph Rodriguez
Lol why do they even give a fuck about the Oscars. For all I care, they could give best picture to a 10 minute YouTube video of some Windows 10 tutorial by some Indian
Caleb Cook
>oscars don't care about their circlejerk
Hunter Smith
Why does the media shill this talentless negress so hard? Of course her reasoning is about muh minorities and not artistic merit or anything of the sort.
Jaxson Baker
i hate netflix, but in cases like this, i side with them and anyone else for making and distributing movies their way. spielberg is a typical boomer - trying to shit on something when the world changes and leaves him in the dust.
Gavin Brown
Spielberg wants to win another Oscar and he'll have less competition if smaller directors can't win for their streaming exclusive films.
This fucking cunt ruined indie cinema and is now upset that streaming services are offering an alternative to his exclusive club. Fuck this guy. Seriously.
Jose Bennett
>talentless She made a good realistic biopic of MLK Jr. (yes Selma was a good movie, fuck you), and for some reason she got roped into making science fiction/fantasy films, genres that she clearly had no interest in.
Bentley Peterson
wahhh don't take away my golden pedestal that you're only allowed into through nepotism or sexual favors wahhh
William Martinez
In art museums they hang up paintings that were painted on both big huge canvases, but also smaller canvases. I don't see why a theater should be a special form of art, just because the screen is big and it has subwoofers
Jaxon Martinez
I don't have netflix and the only movie of theirs I found watchable was that sci-fi with the ghost things but fuck Spielberg and this bullshit. What a fucking arbitrary reasoning to shut down alternatives to hollywood. Old man yells at cloud.
We're gonna give people awards for playing good songs on an electric guitar, but if they play the same song on an acoustic guitar, sorry
The Academy of Movie Theater Arts and Sciences
Leo Perez
Dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Gabriel Myers
>washed up kike trying desperately to stop the inevitable progress of internet streaming
the senile jew couldnt die any sooner.
Henry Phillips
RIP. Pure evil what happened to this poor girl.
Daniel Foster
yeah they stream it in 1080p usually since the wifi in my theater sucks and since the last ethernet cable was ruined by some dumb kids
Joseph Sanders
Everyone acknowledges that a theater is the best way to watch a movie. And stats prove that most of the people with Netflix subscriptions go to theaters more regularly than people who don't.
Adam Peterson
>btfo spike lee >btfo black panther >btfo kikeflix """"""""""""""movie'""""""""""""" >said the n-word while promoting the movie and got away with it >boycotts israel >called obama a war criminal >refused 6 gorillion shekhels from Peter Jackson to reprise his role as aragorn in The Hobbit because "Aragorn wasn't in The Hobbit" >"it all began with Viggo."
How can one man be literally and unironically so based?
>Ava Literally-whoVernay says seeing a $5-10 matinee a couple times a year is less accessible than paying $40+ every month for internet and kikeflix access.
I'm totally in support of Netflix movies being eligible, but what a hamfisted, brainlet attempt at idpol'ing this issue
Jacob Watson
Did you watch the oscars. they were fucking terrible worst ive ever seen in 33 years, hollywood is dying
Sebastian Cooper
that girl was one of the least healthy humans to have ever been born. it's a wonder she lived as long as she did.
Easton Wood
Based
Cameron Bailey
Is this the one that got MrHandsed by jew cock?
Nolan Davis
>what is gas for your car?
Blake Walker
Kill yourself zoomer scum
Christian Sanchez
movies are movies, who gives a shit where they are shown or made ? If a movie was made on youtube, and it was amazing then i don't give a fuck, give it awards.
Adrian Fisher
>get Crohn’s disease >die of symptoms identical to it a year later
Wow those Jews sure do plan ahead
Julian Long
t. Netflix roastie
Jonathan Jackson
>leftist hates Israel Water is wet
Asher Thompson
Meanwhile cape shit is given tokens and Steven doesn't say shit about that he just doesn't want the extra competition from outsiders. Fuck him and fuck Netflix.
Anthony Bailey
Name one conservative politician that criticises Israel.
Parker Collins
Steven (((((Spielberg)))))
Lincoln Parker
Ron Paul Pat Buchanan
Levi Martin
A good movie is a good movie, (Not that Netflix makes any) what the fuck does it matter if it's been in cinemas? It costs more to put a movie in a handful of cinemas than it does to make a fucking movie. We now have the means to produce a film and it can find an audience without needing millions of dollars for distribution. These kikes just don't want any threats to their stranglehold on the media industry. Reality is we've reached a point where anyone can make a movie or tv show and can find an audience. Cinemas will soon be a relic of the past.
It's been dying a slow death for decades. It's just a skim operation for kikes.
Logan Nelson
the gas cost of driving to a theater is borderlne insignificant, mathlet. it doesn't even add $5 to the overall cost of seeing a movie at a theater. it's even less of an issue considering virtually all of the "lower income minorities" mentioned live in highly populated urban centers with theaters within walking distance.
why do all you zoomers care about a girl who died before you were even born.
Evan Rodriguez
Because the cruelty inflicted upon her is likely still inflicted upon countless young actresses at the hands of Hollywood Jews every day.
Ethan Butler
>btfo spike lee >btfo black panther >btfo kikeflix """"""""""""""movie'""""""""""""" >said the n-word while promoting the movie and got away with it >boycotts israel >called obama a war criminal >refused 6 gorillion shekhels from Peter Jackson to reprise his role as aragorn in The Hobbit because "Aragorn wasn't in The Hobbit" >"it all began with Viggo."
How can one man be literally and unironically so based?
poor Americans get free Internet, free cable and free Obama phones
Juan Kelly
I don't care about Netflix but Spielberg looks extremely perfect for the "old man yells at cloud" meme
Brandon Anderson
>have a good way to present your argument >stick to identity politics wtf
Owen Gonzalez
>the cruelty inflicted upon her by her awful health and chronic illness? i guess, user.
Joseph Price
Sucks to see him reduced to trying to keep newer filmmakers down who probably wouldn't have otherwise gotten a shot without streaming services. You can say what you want about the content, censorship or stonewalling is never the answer. Let everyone's voice into the open to stand on their own merits.
This is like how the government keeps trying to keep anyone from buying chinkphones and their 5G instead of trusting customers to choose for themselves. If American products and networks are better and more secure, people will continue buying them over whatever the competition throws at us.
nope. around 20% of americans don't have any internet access at all, which coincides pretty closely with the poverty rate.
at best various ISPs offer bottom of the barrel speeds (i.e. can barely stream netflix at all, stutters and buffers constantly at low resolution) in low income "assistance" plans which are only marginally less expensive than their cheapest ~$30/mo plans.
"obama phones" were a propaganda term based on the obama administration subsidizing telecom providers who themselves provided "assistance" to low income recipients. there were never any free welfare phones.
Nathaniel Bailey
>((((((they))))))) know
Connor Perez
I'm with him
Ryder Sanchez
>This is like how the government keeps trying to keep anyone from buying chinkphones and their 5G instead of trusting customers to choose for themselves
they're doing it because they don't control the production. chink phones mean the US government has no backdoor spyware to monitor your activities, while the Chinese government does. it's not about capitalism or anything like that at all, it's about "national security"
Samuel Williams
He has a point. Ready Player One was trash but it's still higher quality than 99% of what Netflix puts out. The reason he wants Netflix movies to stay in theaters longer is because it will force Netflix to double down on their projects and make better films. It's a win for everyone except Netflix.
David James
What's this story about the nword
Matthew Bennett
>it will force Netflix to double down on their projects and make better films.
you say this as if netflix isn't bankrolling huge blockbuster movies with budgets of up to $200 million.
Nolan Thompson
Someone asked him if he thought race relations were better or worse in modern times or some shit and he said better, citing the fact that most people don't say nigger anymore as one of the reasons. Or something like that, I don't know the full story.
Robert Reyes
>no matter which side I pick, I still have to side with jews and get shitty movies in return
>you say this as if netflix isn't bankrolling huge blockbuster movies with budgets of up to $200 million. What movies have they produced with that sort of budget? Bright was $90 million and Irishman was $100 million before it ballooned over budget. Think it's still going to end up around the $150 million mark. Regardless, there's absolutely no need for films to cost that much money. Whenever they do it's symptomatic of cutting corners or rushing the production to get it finished for a specific deadline.
Jaxson Sanders
Are you a shill or are u being sarcastic?
Cameron Williams
If it's genuinely about the art them I don't see what difference it makes. If theatrical directors can't make better movies than the stuff Netflix shits out then that's their problem.
Jaxon Richardson
As much as I distrust Senor Speilbergo, I'll gladly see him take down Netflix and their bullshit.
I’m with Spielberg, what’s next, youtube flicks made by influencers? PewDiePie getting an Oscar?
Joseph Sanchez
If you make a fucking movie it should be eligible for the fucking award. What a bunch of elitist faggots, holy shit. On a side note, Roma was pretty awful.
Jeremiah Long
Except Netflix is as corrupt if not more corrupt than the traditional Hollywood theatrical industry.
Lincoln Adams
Hmmm. As much as I distrust the US government, I distrust China's even more.
You're looking at this wrong, this has nothing to do with art. The cinema industry realised how big a threat Netflix was a decade ago when they began talks over simultaneous release dates for blockbusters. Netfllix actually got extremely close at one point to securing some big deals (that would've killed cinema immediately) so collectively they scuppered this plan by flatly telling studios that if any movie gets a simultaneous release date they will pull every film the studio ever puts out.
Now that Netflix is slowly getting better at competing with Hollywood they're in trouble without the kind of leverage they used to have over television and rentals. Spielberg is now cinemas best weapon in delegitimising anything Netflix puts out as cheap trash which will impact what consumer expect and the people who go into making Netflix movies.
Hudson Brown
roastie
Sebastian King
If someone uploads an Oscar-worthy movie they produced exclusively to Youtube, sure. Let me know when it happens.
Interestingly there is absolutely no proof Huawei has been involved in any plan to install backdoors. The issue is instead that they have been found to generally be security lax.
Jace White
Just the jew prince advocating for king jew's policies. Who gives a shit, whether it is funded by a streaming service or a studio a good movie is a good movie, and a shit movie is a shit movie, like everything they both pimp out.
Blake Sanders
i was only being half-serious with the government sponsored back doors comment, but there have been numerous reports of corporate spyware coming pre-installed on huawei phones that continues to "phone home" with your data even after you supposedly disable and uninstall them, and several other related suspicious connections to, for example, baidu servers being sniffed out on various chinese brand phones by people who have rooted them.
Gabriel Murphy
Isn't he the director of Ready Player One? Yeah fuck that guy, he's trash.
Juan Gomez
>Are you team Spiel or team Netflix Yea Forums?
whichever doesnt rape kids
John Clark
not even on your own team. alright then.
Jack Bennett
Fuck Netflix, fuck Spielberg and fuck the Oscars. No one gets an award, hows about that.
Jacob Miller
Heather o rouke.
Pedo
James Gray
who cares? Spielberg is white, old pedo rapist. not to mention he's a man.
Asher Cooper
Netflix Zoomers SEETHING
Camden Gutierrez
I RUN ThIS PLACE I MADE AI DID YOU?DID YOU?
Noah Clark
>he couldn’t wait until his buddy Marty was done with the Irishman Backstabbing kike
Kayden Sanchez
Netflix has no best picture oscar because netflix has no good movies. They regularly spit out complete shit.
Grayson Adams
seems pretty autistic
Cooper Davis
>DuVernay has long been a supporter of the Netflix model, pointing out that movie theaters aren’t always accessible to those with lower income, and especially persons of color. Who’s the racist again?
Owen Jenkins
Pest or cholera. Hollywood is just as bad as Netflix.
Julian Bennett
If the rule change targeted any film given a small release then that would affect a lot of foreign films and indie films that get only a limited release to qualify for the award season
Netflix can release their films to cinemas so long as they wait before streaming them, I don't see why they have to be dicks about that, once its out of theatres people will only be able to access it from them so they still retain exclusivity.
Jace Bell
I agree with him. Netflix films should only be eligible for Emmys. During the year of oscar eligibility their films make the vast majority of their profits from TV viewing. It's an entirely different product, in other words.
Anthony Rodriguez
>I DONT LIKE CHANGE WAAAAH Fucking old people we seriously should force retirement at 50
Jason Ross
>only coloreds can be poor fuck i love liberals
Levi Clark
UH FUCKING WHAT?
They LITERALLY have been selling CCTV cameras which ALL have backdoors on them, and these fucking things are all over the US, UK and Australia you fucking Tienanmen square denying shill
Landon Barnes
> Are you team Spiel or team Netflix Yea Forums?
The shit going down over on Rotten Tomatoes over Captain Marvel (as well as IMDb and Netflix eliminating user comments) only reinforces the growing attitude that award shows, critics and Hollywood in general doesn’t give a shit about art and that the Oscars are simply another marketing scam, so who really cares anymore?
That said, a movie is a movie regardless of how many brick & mortar theaters it played in, (or even if it was never shown on the big screen) so Spielberg is in the wrong and I side with Netflix.
Technology and the entertainment market have evolved, Spielberg needs to accept that or get out off the way.
>Be on Avas side or Spielbergs Yeah it's that simple I swear to God this website begs to have to every issue boiled down to "bad v good, me good!" so you don't have to think.
Brody Cook
>Obama phones This will never stop driving me crazy. Reagan signed for the social service decades ago when landlines ruled. It's literally that same social service, all the same people, they just expanded to cellphones. They still also do landlines.
Adrian Nguyen
>old man doesn't understand and can't adapt to new things imagine my shock
Oliver Bailey
Anything that fucks jewflix is automatically good
Adrian Wood
>All these fucking cuts For what purpose? It's so fucking gratuitous. Even without the whip it's grating. Do people really like this style of editing? What do they think it adds?
Sebastian Perez
Buster Scruggs was the best movie of 2018 though. This is what happens when capeshit dominates the theatres. And now with Black Panther it dominates the academy awards too
Aaron Allen
t. Chang
Brandon Garcia
I dislike netflix for some reasons Or rather the environment it creates but Spielberg out here shitting on smth when he hasnt done anything good since the 90s is a joke Fuck you for the post Happy that shit got nominated you fuckin old fag?
Carter Cox
Why doesnt Netflix just do a full run of one or two of what they think will be their best winners? It cant be that much of an investment, then no one would be able to say anything. Boomer Hollywood has been moving goalposts for almost a decade now and this is their last hand.
Ryder Carter
/ourJew/
Jacob Cook
Band wanted more or less the same screentime as Freddie or something like that.
Asher Kelly
>I don't see why a theater should be a special form of art, just because the screen is big and it has subwoofers
And when it comes to "quality of experience", home viewing nowadays beats theaters in every category except screen size (which becomes irrelevant if you're not seated in the middle of the theater).
Haven't they been for years releasing shitty little art house movies that are shown in 3 theaters in france but get an oscar nod? The Hollywood kikes don't like the netflix model because its challenging their power structure. The creativity of old hollywood is gone, and the yids in charge who got there because of years of nepotism, not talent are squirming in their seats when actual creative people no longer have to use them as gatekeepers. I'm sure its also cutting into their child harem as well. At least pic related doesn't fuck kids.
>the absolute state of that sound system it probably cost 10 grand that's the worst part. fuck I wanna throw up
Mason Richardson
Child fucker
Isaac Hall
>the oscar is a literal golden NPC Damn I never thought about it that way
Xavier White
Yeah, I figured as much from what Sacha said about Bryan May's ideas for the script as well as the cheesy shit like "we're all legends" from the trailer, but 51 cuts in an 82 second scene where it's just the band meeting for coffee is fucking ridiculous. That's utterly excessive. Just let your actors do the work in a scene like that. You don't need so many edits. It adds absolutely nothing.
Lucas Ramirez
Who would have thought that Hollywood choosing stagnation via reboots and lazily just putting pre-existing material to the big screen would have a negative affect on them and that streaming service movies are getting more attention because they try different things?
Jaxon Miller
Why not fight Hollywood and it's bullshit of constantly just basing everything off what the charts say or using pre-existing material rather than going with an original idea.
Jack Foster
> the absolute state of that sound system > it probably cost 10 grand that's the worst part. fuck I wanna throw up
In the first place, that’s a typical set-up for an American home (unless you’re a broke-ass teenager) and secondly, that AV system or one like it (that’s far higher quality than a theater) doesn’t cost anywhere near $10K.
TV is the patrician’s choice nowadays, not only technology wise but also for the much better content then theatrical movies.
Streaming is what grownups watch. Theatrical entertainment exclusively caters to children and the developmentally regressed.
Benjamin Nguyen
>Propaganda-making, child rapist wants to prevent the demise of the industry that that allows him to make propaganda and rape kids.
I'm shocked. Fuck him.
Isaac Myers
>Streaming is what grownups watch. Theatrical entertainment exclusively caters to children
Indeed, we can clearly see this by what’s offered by Hollywood nowadays; a non-stop flood of capeshit and kiddy cartoons, as teens and children are the only ones who will put up with all the bullshit of theaters, since they’re not really there to watch the movie but to hang out with friends.
