All Quiet on the Western Front

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 won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film 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. All Quiet on the Western Front is an epic film released by Netflix based around the themes of anti-war. There were also nomination for Close from Belgium, EO from Poland and The Quiet Girl from Ireland - which was the first Irish language film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language film, a hugely significant acknowledgement for the country.

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

with unflinching images no one will easily forget," she said. "It tackles the horrors of a war in the heart of Europe in a harrowing way... "In Germany, even after 100 years, one can't see the difference between a good and a bad war film", the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 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". In "All Quiet", 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.

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.

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.

13/03/2023 - Edward Berger's film is the only European feature to receive prizes during a ceremony swept by the US production Everything Everywhere All at ...

Did you enjoy reading this article? Best Actor [The Banshees of Inisherin](https://cineuropa.org/film/428355/) [+see also: [film review](en/newsdetail/429891/) [trailer](en/video/rdID/428355/f/t/) [film profile](en/film/428355/)] didn't manage to bag any awards, losing out to Everything Everywhere All at Once in most of the categories, especially the acting ones, in which the Irish-UK-US co-production had more chances of breaking through, thanks to the work of Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Barry Keoghan and Kerry Condon. Following a pair of estranged brothers who reunite following their mother's untimely death in rural Northern Ireland, the short trounced other European competitors, such as Le Pupille by Alice Rohrwacher. As widely expected after it earned nine nominations (see the [news](https://cineuropa.org/newsdetail/437309/)) and it triumphed at the BAFTAs (see the [news](https://www.cineuropa.org/newsdetail/438983/)), All Quiet on the Western Front won in several categories, including Best Cinematography (for James Friend), Best Original Score (for Volker Bertelmann), Best Production Design and, lastly, Best International Film, winning out over the favourites back in the early phases of the race, Lukas Dhont’s [Close](https://cineuropa.org/film/424233/) [+see also: [film review](en/newsdetail/426038/) [trailer](en/video/rdID/424233/f/t/) [interview: Eden Dambrine](en/video/437545/rdID/424233) [interview: Lukas Dhont](en/video/437548/rdID/424233) [interview: Lukas Dhont](en/interview/432769/) [film profile](en/film/424233/)] and Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985, as well as Jerzy Skolimowski’s [EO](https://cineuropa.org/film/424274/) [+see also: [film review](en/newsdetail/425637/) [trailer](en/video/rdID/424274/f/t/) [film profile](en/film/424274/)] and Colm Bairéad’s [The Quiet Girl](https://cineuropa.org/film/421296/) [+see also: [film review](en/newsdetail/421931/) [trailer](en/video/rdID/421296/f/t/) [interview: Colm Bairéad](en/interview/421318/) [film profile](en/film/421296/)]. The multiverse-themed film by directorial duo Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert swept the awards by receiving a total of seven statuettes, leaving little room for any of the other competitors.

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.

The German drama directed by Edward Berger has won four gold statuettes at the Academy Awards, including Best International Feature Film, Best Original Score, ...

The film has been critically acclaimed and has a score of 93 per cent on the review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes. And before the Oscars, the film dominated the BAFTA Awards with a record-breaking seven wins, including Best Film, Best Director for Edward Berger, Film Not in the English Language, Cinematography, and Adapted Screenplay among others The film, which has been the top choice of critics ever since its release on Netflix, has been adapted from the 1929 World War I novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.

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13/03/2023 - Edward Berger's film is the only European feature to receive prizes during a ceremony swept by the US production Everything Everywhere All at ...

Did you enjoy reading this article? Best Actor [The Banshees of Inisherin](https://cineuropa.org/film/428355/) [+see also: [film review](en/newsdetail/429891/) [trailer](en/video/rdID/428355/f/t/) [film profile](en/film/428355/)] didn't manage to bag any awards, losing out to Everything Everywhere All at Once in most of the categories, especially the acting ones, in which the Irish-UK-US co-production had more chances of breaking through, thanks to the work of Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Barry Keoghan and Kerry Condon. Following a pair of estranged brothers who reunite following their mother's untimely death in rural Northern Ireland, the short trounced other European competitors, such as Le Pupille by Alice Rohrwacher. As widely expected after it earned nine nominations (see the [news](https://cineuropa.org/newsdetail/437309/)) and it triumphed at the BAFTAs (see the [news](https://www.cineuropa.org/newsdetail/438983/)), All Quiet on the Western Front won in several categories, including Best Cinematography (for James Friend), Best Original Score (for Volker Bertelmann), Best Production Design and, lastly, Best International Film, winning out over the favourites back in the early phases of the race, Lukas Dhont’s [Close](https://cineuropa.org/film/424233/) [+see also: [film review](en/newsdetail/426038/) [trailer](en/video/rdID/424233/f/t/) [interview: Eden Dambrine](en/video/437545/rdID/424233) [interview: Lukas Dhont](en/video/437548/rdID/424233) [interview: Lukas Dhont](en/interview/432769/) [film profile](en/film/424233/)] and Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985, as well as Jerzy Skolimowski’s [EO](https://cineuropa.org/film/424274/) [+see also: [film review](en/newsdetail/425637/) [trailer](en/video/rdID/424274/f/t/) [film profile](en/film/424274/)] and Colm Bairéad’s [The Quiet Girl](https://cineuropa.org/film/421296/) [+see also: [film review](en/newsdetail/421931/) [trailer](en/video/rdID/421296/f/t/) [interview: Colm Bairéad](en/interview/421318/) [film profile](en/film/421296/)]. The multiverse-themed film by directorial duo Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert swept the awards by receiving a total of seven statuettes, leaving little room for any of the other competitors.

German pianist Volker Bertelmann picked up the musical award for his work on the German-language film, based on a novel of the same name.

[Which film scores have won at the Oscars? The Oscar is Bertelmann’s first win at the Academy Awards, having been nominated once before for the score of Lion (2016), an Australian biographical drama film. But with this, I recorded the breathing of the instrument, and I distorted it.