Overview
- Speaking on The Town with Matthew Belloni, Cameron called short qualifying runs by streamers “sucker bait” and “fundamentally rotten.”
- He proposed that streaming titles should be Oscar-eligible only after a “meaningful” release in 2,000 theaters for one month.
- Under current Academy rules, a one-week exclusive theatrical run can qualify a film, a framework Netflix has used with limited engagements such as The Irishman.
- Cameron warned that a Netflix acquisition of Warner Bros. would be “a disaster” and pointed to Ted Sarandos’s past claim that “theatrical is dead.”
- The remarks come as Cameron promotes Avatar: Fire and Ash, set for theaters on December 19, and no Academy changes to eligibility have been reported.