Two things about Netflix and the Oscars

Dustin Hoffman's head is huge.

When you're writing a movie script, the characters' psychological motives are never enough. You have to give them easy-to-understand reasons for the things they do.

For example, if you were to make a movie about Steven Spielberg's fight against Netflix, his battle to keep movie theaters thriving, it would be because he always gets a huge cut of the box office gross. That's what made him a billionaire. Between the three of them, Spielberg, Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams got an astonishing 40% of the gross for the movie Hook.

It's not just him. Streaming video is hurting Hollywood's middle class.

Someone pointed out in a comments section---something I knew but hadn't thought about---that Das Boot (1981) and Fanny & Alexander (1982) each received multiple Oscar nominations and won more than one Oscar, and they were both made-for-TV movies in West Germany and Sweden respectively.

Spielberg's made-for-TV movie, Duel, was released theatrically in Europe. All his old movies are available on streaming video. He couldn't re-release them to theaters every few years like they used to do with Gone with the Wind?