![]() It also has the added drawback of not having a Best Director nomination for Berger, or any actors nominated (the actors branch is the Academy’s largest by far). No remake of a Best Picture winner has ever gone on to win the Oscar. The original screen version of All Quiet on the Western Front from director Lewis Milestone won Best Picture in 1930. This weekend it is also up for a whopping 14 BAFTA awards, so it could gain some momentum in the race there.Ĭan it defy the odds at the Oscars? Statistically it is a big mountain to climb. The streamer in fact will be expanding it’s theatrical engagements in select major cities Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and London with new specially struck 35 mm film prints, which will certainly enhance the gritty and stunning look of the film that defied all odds for a subtitled German film and scored nine Academy Award nominations including International Feature (where it is heavily favored) but also Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay and several crafts nods. Netflix is determined to keep the movie in some select theaters as well, ever since it has a generous global exhibition footprint in early fall before streaming on the service. In an upcoming Behind the Lens segment I taped while he was briefly in town this week on a break from shooting his next film The Conclave at Cinecitta in Rome, director/co-writer Edward Berger talked about the relevance this story still has, especially now as we see images on TV news from the war in Ukraine that look uncannily like those in his film, even though it was shot and conceived well before that Russian invasion.įelix Kammerer in ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Reiner Bajo /© Netflix /Courtesy Everett Collection ![]() But it has slowly built support over the past few months especially among Academy members with whom I speak, and who are passionate about how good it is. It wasn’t even one they took to the major fall festivals like Venice or Telluride (it did appear at TIFF and some regional fests), a breeding ground for likely nominees. Netflix started out the season thinking it had bigger fish to fry in this year’s Oscar Best Picture race than the highly praised but modesty priced (under $20 million) World War I anti-war epic All Quiet on the Western Front, Germany’s entry for the International Feature race. Binks is smiling somewhere and rooting you on at the Oscars. Thanks Brendan for a great Valentine’s Day and the nice words too. It was like a rock concert, and so for that matter was the reception he got in Santa Barbara as I walked him through his career with clips ranging from his breakthrough 1991 films Encino Man and School Ties all the way 30 years later to his acclaimed and Oscar-contending performance as a 600-pound man desperately trying to reunite with his estranged teenage daughter in The Whale. Right then, right there in the Midwest town in which Fraser was born, I could tell he still had a rabid fan base. ![]() In my opening remarks on Tuesday I recounted my previous onstage conversation with Fraser, back in October 2019 when the Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis flew me out to interview him after a screening for the 20th anniversary of The Mummy. When I ran into Fraser at the Oscar Nominees Luncheon on Monday, I told him I had been looking at film clips of his storied career that morning, and that he should be prepared to watch his cinematic life pass before his eyes (especially in a dazzling four-minute sizzle reel cut to the Foo Fighters song “Walk” cannily chosen by SBIFF artistic director Roger Durling, its lyrics about “learning to walk again” - a nice musical touch for Fraser’s own return to glory). Oscar Campaigns Enter Final Weekend As Ballots Are Live All The Pre-Awards Action, An Oscar Voter Poll & Ana De Armas On Her Journey With Marilyn - Notes On The Season
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