According to Business Insider and International Business Times, Netflix has nabbed its first Academy Award nomination for its documentary, The Square. The online streaming service picked up the documentary for distribution in November on the festival circuit after it announced it was going to make a bigger investment in the movie business. The Square takes viewers inside the Egyptian revolution and demonstrates how a group of revolutionaries used a combination of … [Read more...] about Netflix receives first Oscar nomination
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Disney Media Distribution to extend Oscar telecast to 2020
California - Disney Media Distribution (DMD) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have extended their agreement for DMD to distribute the annual Academy Awards telecast internationally through 2020, announced Tom Sherak, Academy president and Anne Sweeney, president of the Disney/ABC Television Group. In February 2012, a worldwide audience of hundreds of millions experienced the Academy Awards in more than 225 international territories via a variety of both traditional broadcast … [Read more...] about Disney Media Distribution to extend Oscar telecast to 2020
