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CODAs Best Picturewin at the Oscars marked a significant milestone for the little screen.
Below, we break down the timeline of the Oscars strained relationship with streaming.
The ceremony brings themthe first-ever Oscars in any category for streaming platforms.
Netflix, meanwhile, wins Best Documentary Short forThe White Helmets.
2018After the previous years victories, Steven Spielberg declares war.
The director announcesthat Netflix movies dont deserve Oscars.
Once you commit to a television format, youre a TV movie,Spielberg tells ITV News.
You certainly, if its a good show, deserve an Emmy, but not an Oscar.
Oscar voters, meanwhile, continue to ponderwhat really constitutes a movie.
As one Oscar voter and veteran awards campaign strategistputs it, We are the Motion Picture Academy.
Were not the Television Academy.
So who do we vote for?
What do we stand for?
Why are we here?
Still,Green Book a film that teeters the line between digestibility and regressive politics prevails overRoma.
Both lose out toToy Story 4.
Netflixs other nominees dont fare much better.
Martin ScorsesesThe Irishmancompetes along withMarriage Storyfor Best Picture, but strikes out with ten nominations and zero wins.
(Marriage Storys Laura Dern, at least, does take home the Best Supporting Actress statuette.)
But the most exciting thing is those films are all incredibly popular with our members as well.
On the big night,Netflix walks away with seven trophies, practically doubling its preexisting tally.
Best Picture, once again, eludes the streamer (it goes toNomadland).
It seems that streaming does have a future at the Oscars and perhaps an illustrious one at that.
