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For the first time since 2020, just before Covid dealt a devastating blow to the industry, exhibitors and awards season, it feels like this year's Oscar show may return to some sense of normalcy. And with box office hits mixed with acclaimed indies among the 10 Best Picture nominees, this could be the…

While doing research for his work on All Quiet on the Western Front, production designer Christian M. Goldbeck was excited to find rare non-propaganda photographs of the battlefields and trenches. These images were pivotal in the design process to show the reality of the war. "We decided in a very early…

When writer-director-producer Edward Berger set out to do a new version of Erich Maria Remarque’s classic antiwar novel All Quiet on the Western Front, he had no idea that this first-ever German-language film version of the World War I story would become so…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. “Well Pete, do you think we already know who all the winners are?” That was the weary question that greeted me on a rainy night this week when I arrived for a Q&A at The London, the…

Edward Berger says he didn't realize the BAFTAs were going his way until the final award of the night, when Best Film became the seventh trophy to add to his film's haul. If he'd known that All Quiet on the Western Front, his adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's First World War novel would do so well, he…

All Quiet on the Western Front‘s Daniel Bishop and Ozark‘s Dave Chameides and Cristian Trova were named Camera Operator of the Year in film and TV, respectively, by the Society of Camera Operators. The SOC unveiled the winners during the group’s 2023 SOC Lifetime Achievement Awards ceremony Saturday…

Heading into production on his anti-war epic All Quiet on the Western Front, based on the seminal 1929 novel by Eric Maria Remarque, filmmaker Edward Berger was “very afraid” of creating a work that would have “any kind of visual effect feeling.” The Netflix film, he says, “had to feel like we did it…

The annual Oscar melee always reminds us of this mandate: Never believe the “buzz.” Every important movie arrives with an aura – and it's usually wrong or misleading. The advance buzz on The Godfather was so disastrous even Francis Coppola sensed it was…

All Quiet on the Western Front became the big winner tonight at BAFTA, taking not just the awards for Best Film and Best Director, but a total of 7 prizes out of its 14 nominations. Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin was next with four wins, including Best British Film, and both Supporting…

Judging by the results this weekend of the first major industry test of where the Oscar winds could be blowing, it was basically a draw. We now have results from both the DGA and BAFTA. Both these groups, as well as the upcoming SAG, PGA and, to a slightly…

2ND UPDATE: Netflix's Edward Berger-directed All Quiet on the Western Front triumphed at the BAFTA Film Awards in London this evening, scoring seven wins, including Outstanding Film, Director, Film Not in the English Language, Cinematography, and Adapted Screenplay. From early on, there was momentum…

"I was always a big fan of the original movie, but I did feel while watching subsequent American or British war films that is a question of perspective that I can't tell," All Quiet on the Western Front director Edward Berger said of his motivation in finally bringing a German version of the iconic World…