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    As Steven Spielberg takes aim at Netflix's Oscars eligibility, battle lines form in Hollywood

    by Josh Rottenberg and Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times Mar 05, 2019 5 minutes

    Well, that didn't take long.

    No sooner did the motion picture academy make it through one of the most tumultuous awards seasons in memory than a new drama began brewing, one that starkly highlights some of the thorniest existential questions facing the 91-year-old organization.

    And the man behind the latest tumult is not some rabble-rouser but perhaps the most respected filmmaker in Hollywood: Steven Spielberg.

    On Friday, just days after the Academy Awards, reports emerged that Spielberg intends to propose rule changes at the next academy board of governors meeting in April aimed at leveling the playing field between Netflix - which earned its first best picture nomination this year for Alfonso Cuaron's "Roma" - and traditional distributors when it comes to Oscar consideration.

    Spielberg's plan - which, some speculate, could require films to play exclusively in theaters for at

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