CNN FlashDoc "Hollywood and the Oscars: Still Golden?" Now Streaming on CNN App

BROADCAST PREMIERE ON SATURDAY, MARCH 14 AT 10PM ET/PT

NEW YORK, NY - (March 6, 2026) - CNN today announced the premiere of its latest CNN FlashDoc, Hollywood and the Oscars: Still Golden?, a timely deep dive into the making, meaning and future of the Academy Awards. The documentary special is now streaming for CNN's streaming subscribers and will air Saturday, March 14 at 10pm ET on CNN, on the eve of Hollywood's biggest night.

As the film industry gathers to celebrate its most prestigious honor, Hollywood and the Oscars: Still Golden? traces the history of the Academy Awards through archival moments and expert analysis, from its early beginnings to its most shocking snubs and surprises. It then turns to the present and future, probing the Oscars' fight to maintain cultural relevance amid shrinking television audiences and a growing divide between the intimate prestige films the Academy tends to honor and the blockbuster fare that draws mainstream moviegoers to theaters.

Reporting from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, one of the final and most influential stops on the Oscar campaign trail, the FlashDoc takes viewers behind the spectacle and into the high-stakes world of Oscar campaigning, a multi-million-dollar industry that has transformed awards season into a months-long marathon.

The CNN FlashDocs unit delivers sharp, in-the-moment storytelling on the issues shaping culture and conversation today. Previous FlashDocs include Emmy(R)-nominated Blindsided on the true story that inspired the film The Blind Side based on Michael Oher, and Emmy(R)-nominated Taking On Taylor Swift examining the copyright lawsuit brought against Swift for her song "Shake It Off." The full CNN FlashDocs library is available to stream for CNN's streaming subscribers.

Hollywood and the Oscars: Still Golden? is executive produced by Eric Johnson. Amy Entelis and Katie Hinman are executive producers for CNN Studios.

Hollywood and the Oscars: Still Golden? will be available on demand beginning Friday, March 6 to CNN's streaming subscribers via CNN.com and CNN connected TV and mobile apps. It will stream live for pay TV subscribers via CNN.com, CNN connected TV and mobile apps on Saturday, March 14.

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About CNN Originals

The CNN Originals group develops, produces and acquires original, long-form unscripted programming for CNN Worldwide. Amy Entelis, executive vice president of talent, CNN Originals and creative development, oversees the award-winning CNN Originals portfolio that includes the following premium content brands: CNN Original Series, CNN Films, CNN FlashDocs, and CNN Studios, an internal production studio which creates long-form programming for CNN's global platforms. Since 2012, the team has overseen and executive produced more than 50 multi-part documentary series and 70 feature-length documentary films, earning more than 120 awards and 450 nominations for the cable network, including CNN Films' first Academy Award(R) for Navalny. Acclaimed titles include the Peabody Award winning and 13-time Emmy(R) Award-winning Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown; five time Emmy(R) nominee, Apollo 11, directed by Todd Douglas Miller; Eva Longoria: Searching for Spain and Emmy(R) nominated Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico; the Emmy(R) Award-nominated "Decades Series": The Sixties, The Seventies, The Eighties, The Nineties, The 2000s, and The 2010s, executive produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman; I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not directed by Emmy(R) winner Marina Zenovich; The Last Movie Stars, directed by Ethan Hawke about the lives and careers of actors and humanitarians Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman; Grammy(R) Award nominee Little Richard: I Am Everything, directed by Lisa Cortés; the Oscar(R), BAFTA, PGA, and duPont-Columbia Award-winning, Navalny directed by Daniel Roher; The Many Lives of Martha Stewart; This is Life with Lisa Ling; Primetime Emmy(R) and duPont-Columbia Award-winning, RBG, directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen; See It Loud: The History of Black Television, executive produced by LeBron James and Maverick Carter; Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight in partnership with the BBC; the Producers Guild Award and three-time Emmy(R) Award-winning Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy; BAFTA nominee and Directors Guild Award winner, Three Identical Strangers, directed by Tim Wardle; and the five-time Emmy(R) Award-winning United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell; and the five-time Emmy(R) Award-winning The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper. CNN Originals can be seen on CNN, to stream via a CNN All Access subscription, on the CNN Original Hub on HBO Max and discovery+, on the CNN Originals FAST channel, and with a pay TV subscription via CNN.com, CNN apps and cable operator platforms.