Jeff Bezos' next goal for Amazon Studios is winning an Oscar

Jeff Bezos
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It's too bad there's no such thing as one-click ordering for Academy Awards, or Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos would have one locked down already.

"We want to win an Oscar," Bezos told German newspaper Die Welt. "Our current target is to produce 16 home movies a year."

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.