This week marks the 10th anniversary of Beasts of No Nation, the first feature film distributed directly by Netflix. Directed by Cari Joji Fukunaga and starring Idris Elba, the movie made a modest splash in that year’s awards season, with Elba winning the SAG Award for Best Supporting Actor, before ultimately falling short of any Oscar nominations. Within three years, and after making a significant investment in its publicity apparatus (hiring ace awards strategist Lisa Tayback), Netflix had received its first Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma . Since then, Netflix has produced ten Best Picture nominees and is one of only three distributors to have at least one Best Picture nominee in the field every year since 2018.

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