Steven Spielberg's Netflix Fears
When he said the streaming company’s films shouldn’t be eligible for Oscars, the director was also criticizing bigger problems with Hollywood.
by David Sims
Mar 27, 2018
3 minutes
As Hollywood continues to ponder the encroaching threat of Netflix to the movie-theater model, one of the industry’s luminaries, Steven Spielberg, has gone on the offensive. Netflix films? They’re just TV movies, according to him. “You certainly, if it’s a good show, deserve an Emmy, but not an Oscar,” Spielberg noted in on the press tour for his upcoming film, . He went on to criticize Netflix’s strategy of selectively releasing its more prestige movies in cinemas to be
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