Netflix wants to kickstart its Oscar chances with these 6 movies premiering at the Venice Film Festival

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August 29, 2018 2:18 PM

Netflix is premiering six movies at this year's Venice Film festival, which begins this week. These movies have Oscar potential, but the streaming service's relationship with film festivals and the Oscars in the past has been contentious.

Netflix has a contentious history with film festivals, but the streaming service has been welcomed with open arms to this year's Venice Film Festival, which begins on Wednesday. It will premiere six movies at the fest.

The movies hail from respected and Oscar-winning filmmakers like Alfonso Cuarón and the Coen Brothers. In fact, Netflix no doubt has its sights on the Oscars this year: you don't finance films from such directors and premiere them at Venice if you're not thinking about awards season.

While the streamer's "Icarus" won best documentary this year (Netflix's only Oscar win so far), Netflix and the Oscars have been a controversial topic in the past. Director Steven Spielberg proclaimed that Netflix films deserve Emmys, not Oscars, because "o

We've rounded up the six Netflix movies showing at Venice below (Most don't have official release dates yet, but are all expected to arrive on Netflix later this year):

"Roma"

Director: Alfonso Cuarón ("Gravity," "Children of Men," "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban")

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Watch the trailer here.

"The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"

Director: Joel and Ethan Coen ("Hail, Caesar!," "Inside Llewyn Davis," "True Grit," "No Country for Old Men")

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"On My Skin"

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Status: Coming to Netflix September 12

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Watch the trailer here.