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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.
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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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