During an interview for his new movie, Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg spoke out about Netflix movies that don't have proper theatrical runs, and how they shouldn't be eligible for Oscars. "I don't believe that films that are just given token qualifications, in a couple of theaters for less than a week, should qualify for the Academy Award nominations," he said, during an ITV News interview (via Yahoo). His comments begin at about 4:26: "Fewer and fewer filmmakers are going to struggle to raise money, or to compete at Sundance and possibly get one of the specialty labels to release their films theatrically," he said. "And more of them are going to let the SVOD businesses finance their films, maybe with the promise of a slight, one-week theatrical window to qualify for awards. But, in fact, once you commit to a television format, you're a TV movie."The debate has come to the fore in the last few years after Netflix Original Okja – directed by Bong Joon-Ho – and The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) – directed by Noah Baumbach – both played in competition in Cannes 2017. After much debate, officials with the festival announced they would be banning movies that didn't have French theatrical releases going forward (the two aforementioned films would have been ineligible under these rules).The Oscars have eligibility rules that mean it's possible for a movie to be nominated with a short theatrical run in the U.S. This year, those rules helped Dee Rees' Mudbound to secure four Oscar nominations.Spielberg went on to say that these movies that were made for a TV format would "deserve an Emmy, but not an Oscar." The debate gets a bit more complicated when you look at something like Alex Garland's Annihilation, however, which was shot for cinema, but then sold to Netflix. Right now, with that movie, it's not a debate we'd have to engage in, since Annihilation did have enough of a U.S. release to make it eligible – but going forward, with streaming services rapidly increasing their original output, new rules might need to be introduced.For more on some of Netflix's most recent nominations, watch the video above.