‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ Wins Best Picture Alongside Six Other Awards

Of its fourteen nominations, All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) won seven awards, including best picture.

The film was nominated for Best Film, Makeup & Hair, Director, Production Design, Costume Design, Sound, Original Score, Special Visual Effects, Cinematography, Editing, Casting, Film Not In The English Language, Supporting Actor, and Adapted Screenplay. (Via The Hollywood Reporter)

Of the seven awards, it won for best picture, director with Edward Berger, sound with Lars Ginzel, Frank Kruse, Viktor Prášil, Markus Stemler, original score with Volker Bertelmann, cinematography with James Friend, a film not in the English language, adapted screenplay with Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, and Ian Stokell.

All Quiet on the Western Front was first released at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival on September 12. It was then released on Netflix on October 28. The film was based on the German novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1929). It follows Päul Baumer (Felix Kammerer), a German soldier during World War I whose idealistic dreams about the war are destroyed once he perceives the true horrors of war.

According to eCNA Berger credited his daughter for inspiring him to direct the film “after telling him he had to make a movie of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel, which she was reading in school.” 

“Best director is the one I never would have thought it would ever work,” Berger said.

All Quiet on the Western Front is available for streaming on Netflix, including the eighteen-minute documentary, Making All Quiet on the Western Front.