All Quiet on the Western Front

2023 - 3 - 12

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The Last Time All Quiet on the Western Front Won an Oscar (TownandCountrymag.com)

In 1930, an adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's novel won Best Picture. Can the new Netflix adaptation repeat that win tonight?

At [the 2023 Academy Awards](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a42557559/2023-oscar-nominees-list/), the Netflix version is up for nine awards, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at [Hey Alma](https://www.heyalma.com/), a Jewish culture site. [Best Picture](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/g3282/oscar-winning-movies/)) and Best Director. Follow her @emburack on [Twitter ](https://twitter.com/emburack)and [Ariana DeBose won for her portrayal of Anita in West Side Story](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a39551067/ariana-debose-oscar-win-history-2022/), a role that earned Rita Moreno an Oscar 60 years prior. Actors playing the same character have won Oscars in different years—when Marlon Brando won for paying Vito Corleone, and then two years later, Robert De Niro won for his take on a younger version of Vito.

All Quiet on the Western Front wins best international feature film ... (The Guardian)

The German-language first world war film is an adaptation of Erich Remarque's landmark 1928 novel; an earlier Hollywood adaptation, directed by Lewis Milestone, ...

At the Having premiered at the Venice film festival, All Quiet on the Western Front has made a strong impression at previous awards ceremonies, including a spectacular performance at the Baftas where it won seven prizes including best film. This version, directed by Edward Berger, stars Felix Kammerer as initially eager soldier Paul Bäumer who is traumatised by life in the trenches.

Oscars 2023 Live Updates: Red Carpet, Highlights From the ... (The Wall Street Journal)

James Friend won the Oscar for cinematography for the realism of the horrors of World War I in the German film “All Quiet on the Western Front.

Only three women have been nominated for the award in this category: This year Mandy Walker was up for her work on the kaleidoscopic biopic “Elvis.” Before her, Ari Wegner was nominated for “The Power of the Dog” in 2022 and Rachel Morrison for “Mudbound” in 2018.\n\nFellow nominees for the 2023 cinematography Oscar also include Florian Hoffmeister for “Tár,” Darius Khondji for “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” and Roger Deakins for “Empire of Light”—his 16th Oscar nomination. James Friend won the Oscar for cinematography for the realism of the horrors of World War I in the German film “All Quiet on the Western Front.”\n\nThe Academy rewarded World War I cinematography only a few years ago, when Roger Deakins won the 2020 award for the harrowing drama “1917.”\n\n“All Quiet on the Western Front,” the German-language Netflix adaptation of the classic Erich Maria Remarque novel, strove for realism and historical accuracy. He spent many days racing through the mud in extreme wet and cold in the Czech Republic while hundreds of extras playing dead soldiers lay all around him.\n\nThis is Mr.

'All Quiet on the Western Front' wins Oscar for best international film (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES, March 12 (Reuters) - Germany's "All Quiet on the Western Front," a World War One epic with nine Oscar nominations this year, won the Academy ...

It is the first German-language adaptation of a 1928 novel by Erich Maria Remarque, which was also made into a best picture-winning film in 1930. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story "All Quiet on the Western Front" beat out international film nominees "EO" from Poland, "The Quiet Girl," from Ireland; Belgian film "Close;" and "Argentina, 1985" from Argentina.

James Friend Wins Best Cinematography for 'All Quiet on the ... (Collider.com)

James Friend won the Oscar for Best Cinematography for All Quiet on the Western Front at the 95th Academy Awards this evening.

[Everything Everywhere All at Once](https://collider.com/tag/everything-everywhere-all-at-once/) came into the evening as the favourite and front-runner. The Oscar for Best Cinematography has been awarded to James Friend for All Quiet on the Western Front, as just announced at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. [Greig Fraser](https://collider.com/dune-best-cinematography-bafta-greig-fraser-reaction/) had picked up last year's award for his work on Denis Villeneuve's Dune.

Oscar winners 2023: All Quiet on the Western Front wins Best ... (DraftKings Nation)

The German film, based on the 1929 novel, won the Academy Award after being a heavy favorite.

Every film that has been nominated for both Best Picture and Best International Feature has won the latter category. Both The Quiet Girl and Argentina, 1985 are listed with +1000 odds, and while an upset in this category seems slim to none, the latter arguably has the better chance of pulling off the feat. That isn’t a big surprise as the film was also nominated for Best Picture.

'All Quiet on the Western Front' Wins Original Score Oscar (Variety)

German composer Volker Bertelmann won the original score Oscar for his music for the World War I epic "All Quiet on the Western Front."

He won the BAFTA for “All Quiet” on Feb. He was previously nominated, under his stage name Hauschka, for his music for the 2016 film “Lion” (co-composed with Dustin O’Halloran). “Sometimes you have to make the screen very small because there are so many explosions happening.”

All Quiet on the Western Front Wins Oscar for Best International ... (Hollywood Reporter)

Edward Berger's antiwar epic was the frontrunner in the category after picking up nine Oscar nominations, including for best film. By Scott Roxborough.

See the star-studded [Oscars red carpet arrivals here.](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/gallery/2023-oscars-red-carpet-looks-arrivals-photos-1235349270/) This marks the fourth best international feature win for Germany and the first since Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others won the Oscar in the same category back in 2006. Caroline Link’s Nowhere in Africa won the Oscar for Germany in 2002. Last month, the movie swept Britain’s BAFTA awards, taking seven trophies, including best film and best director for Berger. And it’s just deeply moving for all of us.” “This was your first movie, and you carried us on your shoulders as if it was nothing. “I owe everything to you and the rest of my crew,” he said. we made our first movie together — I was his assistant — and we held each other, and for 30 years it felt like there was an embrace of all the hard work that went into this. The first-ever win was Volker Schlöndorff’s The Tin Drum in 1979, entered under the auspices of West Germany. Thank you Felix.” [Oscars](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/oscars/) ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday. [All Quiet on the Western Front](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/all-quiet-on-the-western-front/) has won the Oscar for best [international](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/international/) feature for Germany at the [2023 Oscars.](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-winners-list-1235349224/)

All Quiet on the Western Front wins best international feature film ... (The Guardian)

The German-language first world war film is an adaptation of Erich Remarque's landmark 1928 novel; an earlier Hollywood adaptation, directed by Lewis Milestone, ...

All Quiet on the Western Front Wins the Oscar for Production Design (HouseBeautiful.com)

For the war drama, production designer Christian M. Goldbeck and set decorator Ernestine Hipper were tasked with bringing the madness and incomprehensible scale ...

[Oscar for achievement in production design](https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/entertainment/a42635863/oscar-nominations-production-design-2023-nominees/). Last year, among the event’s many controversies, the production design category was one of eight awards that were presented in the Dolby Theatre an hour before the live broadcast began. If you haven’t had the pleasure of seeing the film yet, this is your sign to set aside time for it or to give it a rewatch. It's currently available to stream on Netflix. The production design team ended up creating several hundred meters of trenches and a battlefield the size of two soccer fields at the It currently operates as a sports airport but temporarily closed its operations for three months so that the film could be shot there.

German anti-war epic 'All Quiet on Western Front' claims Oscars glory (FRANCE 24)

A wrenching German adaptation of the classic war novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" clinched the Academy Award for best international feature on Sunday ...

Just one year after the book came out, a US film adaptation by Lewis Milestone was released. with unflinching images no one will easily forget," she said. Martin Schwickert of the RND media group called the film "frighteningly current in light of the Ukraine war", saying it "made plain what war means for those who have to fight it". "It tackles the horrors of a war in the heart of Europe in a harrowing way... In "All Quiet on the Western Front", World War I is viewed through the eyes of teenage German soldier Paul Baeumer (Kammerer), a volunteer on the Western front. The last German winner of best international feature (a category then known as best foreign language film) was "The Lives of Others" in 2007.

Is 'All Quiet On The Western Front' On Netflix? Where To Watch The ... (Decider)

Movies worth celebrating! Don't miss the Oscar winning films All Quiet on the Western Front and Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio. Only on Netflix.

Is All Quiet on the Western Front on Netflix? Unfortunately, All Quiet on the Western Front isn’t streaming on HBO Max or Hulu. Where can you watch All Quiet on the Western Front online?

Oscar Success for 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Push Film ... (Hollywood Reporter)

The German war drama, which won four Oscars, was funded by Netflix, entirely outside the country's tradition state subsidy system.

That [the most successful ](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-producer-film-resonance-oscars-1235339192/)German film ever at the Academy [Awards](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/awards/) was bankrolled by a U.S. Roth has called for a fundamental overhaul of Germany’s €600 million ($640 million) a year film funding system, citing All Quiet on the Western Front as an example of how filmmaking has transformed and why Germany’s very bureaucratic funding system needs to adjust. One of Roth’s proposals is to have Netflix and other major streaming companies contribute more to funding German movies. [Netflix](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/netflix/) film — fully financed outside Germany’s state subsidy system — was the cause of some handwringing. “A huge success for German cinema,” raved German Chancellor, or prime minister, Olaf Scholz in a message to Berger and his team. The culture minister used her opening night speech at this year’s Berlin Film Festival to make the point that streaming services have dramatically changed the “environment for creating, making and experiencing movies” and that the German funding system, which relies on financing and distribution from television broadcasters and theatrical distributors, is out of pace with the times. 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[All Quiet on the Western Front](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/all-quiet-on-the-western-front/) in Germany — Edward Berger’s groundbreaking World War I epic [won four Academy Awards](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-winners-list-1235349224/) at the 2023 [Oscars](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/oscars/) on Sunday night, including for [best international feature](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-oscar-international-feature-1235347552/), best score, best production design and best cinematography, a new record for German movie — there was some very Teutonic soul searching. [the movie’s technical excellence](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/oscars-2023-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-craft-1235347574/), as well as to Berger’s very distinct anti-war message. German Culture Minister Claudia Roth, who had traveled to Los Angeles for the Oscars, called Berger’s adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s anti-war classic “the right film at the right time,” as it shows “a war in Europe, in all its cruelty and brutality,” just as another such war, the war in Ukraine “is currently raging again in the heart of Europe.” [Share this article on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/&title=Oscars:%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix’s%20‘All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front’%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany’s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform&sdk=joey&display=popup&ref=plugin&src=share_button&app_id=1153511048447777) [Share this article on Twitter](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/&text=Oscars%3A%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix%E2%80%99s%20%E2%80%98All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front%E2%80%99%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany%E2%80%99s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform&via=thr) [Share this article on Email](mailto:?subject=thr%20:%20Oscars:%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix’s%20‘All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front’%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany’s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform&body=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/%20-%20Oscars:%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix’s%20‘All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front’%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany’s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform) [Show additional share options](#) [Share this article on Print]() [Share this article on Comment](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/#respond) [Share this article on Whatsapp](whatsapp://send?text=Oscars:%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix’s%20‘All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front’%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany’s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform%20-%20https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/) [Share this article on Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=1&url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/&title=Oscars:%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix’s%20‘All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front’%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany’s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform&summary&source=thr) [Share this article on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/&title=Oscars:%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix’s%20‘All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front’%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany’s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform) [Share this article on Pinit](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/link/?url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/&description=Oscars:%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix’s%20‘All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front’%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany’s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform) [Share this article on Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/widgets/share/tool/preview?shareSource=legacy&canonicalUrl&url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-german-film-funding-netflix-1235350718/&posttype=link&title=Oscars:%20Why%20the%20Success%20of%20Netflix’s%20‘All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front’%20Will%20Add%20Momentum%20to%20Germany’s%20Film%20Funding%20Reform)

Prague-shot 'All Quiet on the Western Front' nabs 4 Oscars (The Prague Reporter)

The WWI film, which was filmed in and around Prague in 2021, won Oscars for International Film, Sound, Cinematography, and Production Design.

- “Naatu Naatu” by Kala Bhairava, M. [The Whale](https://www.praguereporter.com/home/2023/2/22/the-whale-movie-review-brendan-fraser-is-devastating-in-bleak-aronofsky-drama/). She had to renew the film rights every year until then, eventually spending $200,000 on her passion project. Scottish triathlete Lesley Paterson, who won gold medals at the world championships in 2011, 2012, and 2018, became a big fan of the novel after studying it in school. “Without you, none of us would be here.” Director Edward Berger’s feature, which is now steaming on Netflix, won for Best International Film, Best Production Design, Best Score, and Best Cinematography.

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