'As much as some filmmakers and movie buffs have lamented the entry of television- and smartphone-based film services into the hallowed realm of cinema, this is not necessarily bad news for the industry or for the art of moviemaking.' (via latimesopinion)
Ignoring the grumbling from many in Hollywood, the governing board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted Tuesday evening not to make it harder for movies financed by Netflix and other streaming services to qualify for Oscars. Any movie that plays for at least a week in a theater in Los Angeles County may continue to be considered for an Academy Award, even if it’s simultaneously available online.
As much as some filmmakers and movie buffs have lamented the entry of television- and smartphone-based film services into the hallowed realm of cinema, this is not necessarily bad news for the industry or for the art of moviemaking. Instead, streaming services are spending billions of dollars to make their own films and to distribute other studios’ work, to the benefit of talented filmmakers, new voices, less mainstream topics and, yes, established artists.
The fear on the other side is that streaming services will undermine the industry’s long-standing business model by driving dollars away from movie theaters. Director Steven Spielberg has also warned that making movies just for small screens leaves people without the shared, communal experience of seeing a movie in a theater., however, attest that multiplexes are not going away anytime soon — and besides, the trend toward watching movies on TV sets and laptops is unstoppable.
Traditionally, a movie for an ultra-wide theater screen is framed differently from something made for TV. The scale of the movie, itself, plays a part in the storytelling. But there is a trade-off here, and it’s not a bad one for filmmakers: In exchange for fewer screenings and smaller audiences in a movie theater, they get a bigger, more diverse potential audience of consumers who can watch at home or wherever they choose. The academy wisely decided not to discourage that.
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