Steven Spielberg 'disagrees' with the Oscar's decision to award eight categories before the show

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Steven Spielberg has spoken up about his disapprovalover the Motion Picture Academy’s decision to pre-record eight Oscar categories.The new schedule would mean that eight awards would be handed out in the hour before the actual Oscar telecast begins at 5 p.m.

PT on March 27, in order to save time and keep the show to three hours.'I disagree with the decision made by the executive committee,' the Schindler's List director, 75, said in a new interview with Deadline.

Not in favor: Steven Spielberg, 75, disapproves of the Motion Picture Academy’s decision to pre-record eight Oscar categories, saying, 'I disagree with the decision'; Pictured at the 92nd Academy Awards in 2020Spielberg - who has been nominated for the prestigious award 19 times and has won three times - went on to express that making movies is a collaborative art. 'I feel very strongly that this is perhaps the most collaborative medium in the world.

All of us make movies together, we become a family where one craft is just as indispensable as the next,' the filmmaker said.'I feel that at the Academy Awards there is no above the line, there is no below the line.