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.

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/)

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.

Mindy Kaling and John Cho presented the award to Bertelmann, who thanked his All Quiet colleagues.

All Quiet is Bertelmann and Berger’s fourth collaboration, following the 2020 TV series Your Honor. He shared the nomination with co-composer Dustin O’Halloran. He was last nominated for his musical work on Lion (2017), starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara.

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.

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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)

Based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque, it takes inspiration from real-life events and figures and stars Felix Kammerer (as Paul), ...

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.

Netflix had six wins thanks to “All Quiet on the Western Front," “The Elephant Whisperers” and Guillermo's Del Toro “Pinocchio."

Netflix won Oscars for "All Quiet on the Western Front" and Guillermo del Toro's "Pinocchio," its first animated feature film win.

[Netflix won seven Oscars](https://variety.com/2021/awards/news/netflix-oscars-most-wins-1234959949/), more than any other studio that year. In 2020, [Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” was shut out at the Oscars](https://variety.com/2020/film/news/the-irishman-oscar-snub-netflix-1203496060/) after receiving 10 nominations. Among distributors and studios, that trailed only A24, which had nine — including seven for [the night’s juggernaut, “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”](https://variety.com/2023/awards/awards/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-oscars-record-1235544633/) Previously, Netflix had won 16 Oscars (out of 116 nominations) and has mounted aggressive awards-season campaigns the last several years. [original score (Volker Bertelmann)](https://variety.com/2023/artisans/awards/original-score-oscar-all-quiet-western-front-volker-bertelmann-1235549505/) and production design (Christian M. The film — a grim, disquieting adaptation of the famous World War I novel — had dominated the U.K.’s BAFTA Awards with a record-breaking seven wins, including best film, director (Berger), adapted screenplay, cinematography, sound, original score and non-English language film.