Can we accept Steven Spielberg and Netflix as a happy couple, or are the pair still unfit for one another? Yesterday , Netflix and Spielberg announced they had finally put their past behind them, signing a deal to make multiple films under the director’s Amblin Productions banner.
It all started back in March of 2018.
“I don’t believe that films that are just given token qualifications, in a couple of theaters for less than a week, should qualify for the Academy Award nominations,” Spielberg said at the time.
Then the feud began in earnest in early 2019 when Netflix’s Roma was nominated for a score of Oscars.
Eager to support rule changes when it came to streaming films at the Oscars, Spielberg apparently set out to make sure another Netflix film like Roma couldn’t dominate at the competition.
Just when it seemed the fight couldn’t get any tenser, a close friend of Steven Spielberg jumped in to clear the air.
“I talked to Steven about this yesterday.
“What happened is a journalist was onto a story about this and had heard a rumor about Steven,” Katzenberg said.
Or perhaps, like Katzenberg suggested, the original feud was just a “rumor.” Either way, Netflix and Spielberg are now financially tied together — whether that makes Spielberg a “hypocrite” or not is up to audiences.