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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by Cthulhu_ on Monday March 04, 2019 @08:38AM (#19301081)
On a different tangent: Why should a movie have to be released in cinemas to be considered eligible for an academy award? A film is a film, so unless the Oscars are owned by the cinema industry (instead of the film industry, which was forcefully separated at some point as a commenter indicated), IMO streaming, direct-to-video and direct-to-TV movies should be eligible to be included as well.

I mean most Netflix (and direct-to-video) films are hit and miss, but there's some good ones there.

As for your comment on voting, don't complain about how people up / downvote your stuff (I mean why do you even care?), instead, write a better comment.

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by johannes1234321 on Monday March 04, 2019 @08:57AM (#19301223)
> On a different tangent: Why should a movie have to be released in cinemas to be considered eligible for an academy award?

Since the Academy Awards are a award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which is an association of movie industry to promote themselves. Any organization can award whoever they like.

The question is: Should the public give them that much attention?

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by sverige on Monday March 04, 2019 @10:13AM (#19301840)
The attention they're receiving continues to decline. Ratings for the Oscars have been on a long downward trajectory, and that seems likely to continue as long as the show is more about political virtue signaling than it is about the art of making movies.

Heck, they couldn't even find someone willing to host what used to be a plum gig because the political climate in that tiny crowd is so toxic.

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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by pferde on Monday March 04, 2019 @09:47AM (#19301632)
It is difficult to determine what constitutes "better" if there is no real feedback on why the current comment is "worse".
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