Academy Says
Streaming Movies
Can Now Win Oscars The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences’ board of governors met over Zoom
to discuss the changes, according to
‘The Hollywood Reporter.’ Direct-to-streaming movies will now qualify as
long as they are available on the voting body’s
Academy Screening Room streaming service. Films will no longer be required
to have a one-week theatrical
run in Los Angeles. Films may now also have week-long
runs in New York, San Francisco,
Chicago, Miami and Atlanta. The 93rd Academy Awards are set
to take place February 27, 2021.