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Steven Spielberg is taking on Netflix.
At this year’s annual post-Oscars meeting, the filmmaker, who’s representing directors as an Academy governor, will speak out against considering streamed films for awards, IndieWire reported.
He feels that the streaming service should only compete for Emmy awards, the entertainment industry news site said.
“Steven feels strongly about the difference between the streaming and theatrical situation,” a spokesperson from Amblin, Spielberg’s production company, told IndieWire, adding that the Hollywood director hopes others will join his campaign at the meeting next month.
“He will see what happens.”
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Netflix made Roma available to stream with a limited release in theatres to qualify for an Oscar this year.
Spielberg, who has won a best picture award with Schindler’s List, is one of the three Academy governors of the directors branch, one of 17 that make up the film body.

The Board of Governors sets the Academy’s strategic vision, preserves the organisation’s financial health and assures the fulfilment of its mission, according to the Oscars website.
Roma was the favourite to win the Academy Award for best picture before Green Book took the prize at the awards last weekend.
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Before the event, Roma had a 33 per cent chance of winning, according to the Hollywood Reporter, while the Gold Derby gave it a 4-1 shot.
This isn’t the first time Spielberg has made his feelings known on the distinction between Hollywood’s big screen and TV’s small one.
“Once you commit to a television format, you’re a TV movie,” Spielberg said last year in a conversation with ITV News about the increasingly blurry lines that separate various media.
“You certainly – if it’s a good show – deserve an Emmy, but not an Oscar.”
Roma was the first nominee for best picture that was essentially a digital release and if it had won, Netflix would have been the first technology company to clinch Hollywood’s top prize.
Additional reporting by Tribune News Service


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After Roma success, Steven Spielberg proposes rule that could block Netflix films from Oscars

Filmmaker Steven Spielberg. Photo: AP

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Spielberg will propose rule changes that would prevent streaming services from competing in the Oscars without its projects getting full theatrical runs first
‘Roma’ won three awards, including directing, cinematography and foreign language film


After ‘Roma’s’ three Oscar wins, director Steven Spielberg is taking aim at streaming films for future Academy Awards.


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