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Academy Leaves Door Open To Netflix After Tussle Over Oscars Eligibility Rules

A controversial proposal would have limited the ability of streaming services to compete for Oscars. But after a dust-up that even included the Justice Department, the academy decided against it.
A reproduction of an Oscar statuette stands tall at a 2016 media event in Hollywood, Calif.

After weeks of hand-wringing, vote-wrangling and even some stern finger-wagging from the Department of Justice, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has declined to pursue a controversial proposal to change the Oscars' eligibility rules.

That proposal, megadirector Steven Spielberg, would have made it difficult for streaming services such as Netflix to

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