world's biggest directors to netflix, including martin scorsese, who made the irishman, as well as alfonso cuaronteven spielberg... you cannot go around saying to people that there's a100% chance that they're going to die. and big stars like meryl streep. don't look up is also nominated for best this year. do you think the way we'll watch movies will change? i mean, what will it look like in ten years and 50 years? you know, istill think the same, to be honest. i don't think there's a better version to watch a film than on a big screen, or on a big screen in your home. i don't think that those two things will change. i do think there are obviously people now who watch them on ipad or on a cell phone. does that offend you? if someone tells you they've watched... it bums me out a little bit but then i go, "well, that's their choice." what matters this week, though, is the oscars showdown in la, and the chance when it comes to best picture for netflix to prove it really does have all the power. katie razzall, bbc news, los angeles. to football, and wales are just a game away from reaching the world

world's biggest directors to netflix, including martin scorsese, who made the irishman, as well as alfonso cuaronere's a 100% chance that they're going to die. ..and big stars, too, like meryl streep. don't look up is also nominated for best picture this year. do you think the way we'll watch movies will change? i mean, what will it look like in ten years and 50 years? you know, istill think the same, to be honest. i don't think there's a better version to watch a film than on a big screen, or on a big screen in your home. i don't think that those two things will change. i do think there are obviously people now who watch them on an ipad or on a cellphone. does that offend you? if someone tells you they've watched... it bums me out a little bit, but then i go, "well, that's their choice." what matters this week, though, is the oscars showdown in la, and the chance — when it comes to best picture — for netflix to prove it really does have all the power. katie razzall, bbc news, los angeles. the duke and duchess of cambridge have now arrived in the bahamas for the final leg of their korean tour whi

london, but it only had a very limited cinema release because it's a netflix film aimed, like alfonso cuaronsese's the irishman, directly at the oscars. those films didn't win best picture. will this year be any different? netflix have got two contenders this year — the power of the dog, the elena ferrante adaptation, the lost daughter, by maggie gyllenhaal. get up! mommy, get up! they've got skin in the game. they've got a chance, but again, these are not hugely popular movies. they're not top of the netflix streaming charts. they're prestige vehicles that netflix is doing to ultimately win the golden bauble, to say, "look, we make movies. "we're not here to destroy cinema." they might find themselves getting to the top of mount olympus and finding, really, there's nothing much there. no doubt, netflix subscribers will look for the film off the back of a best picture oscar accolade, but it's campion herself who is the movie's best hope of gold — a film—maker who smashed glass ceilings when they were virtually indestructible. the feeling is that she's earned that best director oscar. tom: si

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want to tell those kind of stories, but they want to tell what they tell, and get someone like alfonso cuarony in roma "about how i grew up, in spanish, in black and white," and be a place that actually could champion that and treat it like a superhero movie. and that's been the fun part, and the exciting part is we found a lot of incredibly talented people who want to come here and tell those stories. back then, i mean, netflix was still best known more for the sort of original tv series — house of cards, stranger things, the crown... it tended to license films from the likes of disney or sony. why is it so important for netflix to control both the platform and own the ip to the content that you put on it? well, i think we realise that the companies that were licensing to us were going to bring them back and put them on their own platform. so we saw that coming. and i think they saw that early on, ted and reed, when they started in the series business. and then as we started to grow, the recognition that film is a global storytelling medium... it's one of the great things that travels around

london, but it only had a very limited cinema release because it's a netflix film aimed, like alfonso cuaron'sthe game. they've got a chance, but again, these are not hugely popular movies. they're not top of the netflix streaming charts. they're prestige vehicles that netflix is doing to ultimately win the golden bauble, to say, "look, we make movies. "we're not here to destroy cinema." they might find themselves getting to the top of mount olympus and finding, really, there's nothing much there. no doubt, netflix subscribers will look for the film off the back of a best picture oscar accolade, but it's campion herself who is the movie's best hope of gold — a film—maker who smashed glass ceilings when they were virtually indestructible. the feeling is that she's earned that best director oscar. tom: sir kenneth branagh's picture, belfast, has many fans among academy members here in los angeles. it's a story inspired by his childhood in northern ireland when family life in his household was upended by the troubles. but it is a feel—good film, and that may well resonate with academy voters seek