Oscar voters can watch eligible movies at home. Here's why Steven Spielberg wants to change that for everyone else.

Steven Spielberg wants a rule change that would affect which films are Oscar-eligible - a rule that could theoretically knock Netflix movies out of the running going forward.

According to reporting by IndieWire: "It would appear that the Academy is going to re-evaluate its stance on the streaming service thanks, in part, to Steven Spielberg's insistence that Netflix films should only compete for Emmys."

Or as Spielberg himself put it last year: "Once you commit to a television format, you're a TV movie."

I disagree. (Guess who watches most Oscar-nominated films on TV? That's right, members of the Academy. Oh, the irony.)

The meaningful difference for me - as an audience member - comes down to this:

A movie is self-contained and usually has a running time somewhere in the range of 90 minutes to three hours.

A television show - even a highly serialized show with a creator who wants to refer to it as a "10-hour movie" - is parceled out in episodes, anywhere from six to 24 per season.

That's the distinction that should matter when we're talking Oscar vs. Emmy because the awards are celebrating how a project was conceived and actually made, not the distribution method. Unlike Spielberg, I am less concerned with where or how people watch film or TV - yes, even if it's (gasp!) on your phone.

Not everyone feels the same. There are a