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Michael Douglas worked in the Romantic drama movieBehind the Candelabraand for many people, it was Douglas’s one of the most incredible performances. The movie was released on 21 June 2025 and it was directed by Steven Soderbergh. In the same year, Douglas was not nominated at the Cannes Film Festival for the best actor.
Although he won many awards for the same movie, at Cannes Film Festival Douglas wasn’t even nominated. Douglas believes that legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg stood in the way of him receiving the Cannes best actor award in 2013.
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Michael Douglas explained why Steven Spielberg didn’t support him and his film
Michael Douglasreportedly was very hopeful that he will be nominated at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival for the best actor award. The news came as a surprise and disappointment for Douglas and hisBehind the Candelabrawhen he was not even in the nominations for the best actor. Later, the 78-year-old actor talked about what made him lose the award at the Cannes film festival. During an interview, theFatal Attractionactor said,
“Steven Spielberg was president of the Cannes Film Festival the year that I was there at Cannes. The rumor was that I was sort of favored for the best actor award and that he put the kibosh on that because it was an HBO film — a film for television even though it had played theatrically.”
He further added,
“My feeling is that they’ve got to really loosen this up. Certainly it can play in a theater for a week or two, but then it should be entitled to be treated as a movie.”
Douglas was upset when he learned thatSteven Spielbergdidnot vote for him, and didn’t even give him a chance to be nominated.The Gameactor said he noticed there was a gap in the way the Cannes jury chose which films should be nominated.
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Steven Spielberg said he is averse to streaming movies being nominated for the Oscars
From behind the camera, Spielberg has achieved some success in Hollywood. Even now, the filmmaker understands what the needs of Hollywood are and what style of the film will run in the industry. However, the filmmaker is said to be opposed to streaming films being nominated for prestigious awards. While talking about why he is averse to streaming films being nominated, the 76-year-old filmmaker said,
“The difference today is that a lot of studios would rather just make branded, tentpole, guaranteed box office hits from their inventory of branded successful movies than take chances on smaller films. And those smaller films the studios used to make routinely are now going to Amazon and Hulu and Netflix.”
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Spielberg has also stated that movie streaming culture is a loss for many filmmakers. He described it as “throwing the filmmakers under the bus.” The director ofJawsstated that the Pandemic impacted many things for him and his other filmmaker films since the streaming culture became more prevalent during the pandemic.
Source:Cheatsheet
Umeza Peera
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Umeza Peera is a pop culture junkie and works as Content writer for Fandom Wire. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Philosophy. Umeza has been writing for three years. She enjoys writing relatable stories that would connect with people
