Spielberg pushing for Oscars rule change after Netflix near-win - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/02/steven-spielberg-vs-netflix-oscar-academy-wars-1202047846/ As far as he’s concerned, as it currently stands Netflix should only compete for awards in the Emmy arena; as the Academy Governor representing the directors branch, Spielberg is eager to support rule changes when it convenes for its annual post-Oscar meeting. Clearly, studios are hopping mad that “Roma” could come so close to winning the Academy’s top prize. Here’s a roundup of the complaints: Netflix spent too much. One Oscar strategist estimated “Roma” at $50 million in Oscar spend, with “Green Book” at $5 million. (The New York Times reported $25 million; Netflix insists awards were folded into their entire marketing budget.) The massive “Roma” push crushed foreign-language distributors. Sony Pictures Classics co-president Michael Barker said he had no financial option but to release Oscar nominees “Never Look Away” and “Capernaum” when theaters opened up after the holidays, which meant fewer Academy voters had a chance to see them. “Roma” only spent three weeks as a theatrical exclusive. Netflix doesn’t report box office. Netflix doesn’t respect the 90-day theatrical window. Netflix movies are available in 190 countries, 24-7. Bravo! If there's one complaint people have about the Oscars, it's that they're not elitist enough!

But in the blurb you've posted, netflix doesn't even follow the same rules all the other movies are expected to. Yeah, it's hard to argue about "level playing fields" when every movie has it's own budget, but netflix clearly does it's own thing and then expects to be treated like everyone else. I certiantly am not a fan of the Oscars and how they've gotten lately, but by their own rules, they're competing with a black box.

I would question why those rules are what they are - I mean, I get it, there's a matter of exposure [...] to release Oscar nominees “Never Look Away” and “Capernaum” when theaters opened up after the holidays, which meant fewer Academy voters had a chance to see them. But academy members should be held to high enough standards that we can expect them to look past sheer hype, and decide on nominations based on merit

The Oscars are mostly shit anyways

Green Book literally won because a bunch of old white Academy Award voters wanted to pat thermselves on the back for not being racist. AGAIN. They've been a joke for so long its not even funny. They're not film awards - they're an excuse for Hollywood big shots to stroke their egos on live television.

Imagine spending 10x as much money as everyone else to lobby for your movie and still not winning.

Despite how big of a dream winning an Oscar would be, it is seeming a little different than it used to be

The Amazon-HBO-Go-Hulu-Disney+-Netflix-Starz-CBS-MGMstream Award show, brought to you by Pepsi, where every award is named after a ceo of one of the streaming companies. "I won 3 bezos this year!"

The irony is that Green Book was basically the racist choice anyway. From what I've read, there are a bunch of feel-good inaccuracies throughout the film, and one of the screenwriters,the son of the real life dude Viggo Mortensen plats, has racist tweets from a few years ago: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DwgkDM8UUAAoHmj.jpg:large As much as I don't think superhero movies more often than not just do not have what it takes to be "best picture", Black Panther would have been the obvious progressive pick. In reality, it should have probably gone to Roma, or The Favourite(my pick).

The whole movie sounds like its an Imitation Game level hack job whose characters bears almost no resemblance to the real life people. https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/opinion/2019/02/28/i-feel-betrayed-by-green-book-says-toronto-man-who-played-in-don-shirleys-ensemble.html

Always accurate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZFIgN5cgNU

So what they're saying is.... ...Netflix is doing everything better

Reigning in bloated Oscar campaigns would be great! That doesn't seem like something that's exclusive to Netflix though, and it sounds like they're more interested in changing the qualifying criteria so you need more screenings or something, which makes no sense to me in this day and age. Maybe I'm biased cus I loved Roma

green book is a movie made by white people, with a white guy as a protagonist "learning how not to be racist", for white people. green book was the very definition of patting your own back.

still a decent film tho

Oscar bait movie 101

Better answer is to stop giving a shit about a clearly bullshit award ceremony. If studios are paying millions to promote their film for awards, why the fuck would you want to watch that award ceremony