At the 90th Academy Awards , held on March 4 , 2018 , Netflix won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature for the film '' Icarus . '' During his remarks backstage , director and writer Bryan Fogel remarked that Netflix had " single-handedly changed the documentary world . " '' Icarus '' had its premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and was bought by Netflix for $ 5 million , one of the biggest deals ever for a non-fiction film
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