On Tuesday evening, the motion picture academy’s 54-member board of governors announced a handful of new rules for next year’s Oscars. But, despite widespread speculation that the organization would use the occasion to try to hold the line against the rise of streaming services like Netflix, which some regard as a major threat to the traditional moviegoing experience, the group decided in the end to maintain its existing rules governing eligibility for awards consideration.
Last month, reports emerged that board member Steven Spielberg intended to propose rule changes aimed at leveling the playing field between Netflix — which earned its first best picture nomination this year for Alfonso Cuarón's"Roma" — and traditional distributors when it comes to Oscar consideration.in what some saw as an existential fight over the very meaning of movies in the streaming age.
But Spielberg was absent from Tuesday’s meeting at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ headquarters in Beverly Hills due to his work schedule, and the board ultimately decided to punt on the streaming issue, maintaining the status quo, at least for the time being, even as it expressed support for the theatrical experience.
The board voted to keep in place the existing eligibility rule stating that a film must have a minimum seven-day theatrical run in a Los Angeles County commercial theater, with at least three screenings per day for paid admission. Movies that are simultaneously released via streaming — as is generally the norm with Netflix — remain eligible.
The decision to back off the streaming issue for now follows a series of reversals by the academy’s leadership that may have left the group a bit gun-shy. Last year, the board announced the creation of
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