Netflix Gets Even More Serious About The Oscar Game

Netflix has made the Oscar acceptance and success a priority over the past few years.

Slowly, but surely, they have earned acceptance from a number of key branches of the Academy.

This lead to their most successful Academy Awards ever in February where the streaming service earned eight nominations including their first outside the Best Documentary category (which they won anyway for “Icarus”).

Now, with major prestige bait films on the way from Martin Scorsese, Paul Greengrass, Dan Gilroy and Ava DuVernay over the next two years they are taking a major step to bolster their chances at winning Oscar’s top prize, Best Picture.Continue reading Netflix Gets Even More Serious About The Oscar Game at The Playlist.

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