Netflix has decided to submit Martin Scorsese’s “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story” for documentary awards including the Oscars, a spokesperson for the streaming service told TheWrap on Monday.
And that decision, which came after Netflix and Scorsese spent some time figuring out how best to position the film, will likely pose at least a small conundrum for the Academy’s Documentary Branch and for other awards bodies devoted to nonfiction film.
“Rolling Thunder Revue,” after all, uses the documentary form to tell the story of Dylan’s 1975 concert tour in a way that is partly factual and partly fictional.