Oscars: Academy Digital Screening Room Opens With Amazon And Netflix Contenders First To Vie For Voters Attention; DVDs Now Banned

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EXCLUSIVE: Let the race begin.On the eve of the Fall film festivals which signifies the official start of Oscar season (just as Emmy final voting is prepared to wrap up Monday evening), the Academy Screening Room this week has just put up their first four films in the section labeled FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION and all of them are from streamers.Those movies are Netflix’s The Mitchells Vs The Machines, along with a trio from Amazon , Annette, The Tomorrow War, and Coming 2 America (the latter pair actually pickups from Paramount and sent straight to the streamer).

Coming 2 America, the Eddie Murphy sequel, is actually the only one of the quartet that is not labeled “new” so it may have landed on the site first and gets bragging rights for