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With the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences having expanded its shortlist for the Best International Feature Film Oscar to 15 in recent years, it’s inevitable that some deserving titles miss the nominations cut. However, several of the perceived front-runners are in the mix after today’s announcement, including Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front , which has nine total nominations including Best Picture , and is yet another sign of how foreign-language films are crossing over into other main categories. RELATED: Oscar Best Picture Winners Through The Years – Photo Gallery Netflix’s Edward Berger-directed retelling of the classic Erich Maria Remarque novel, All Quiet on the Western Front is in the international race as expected, while other non-shocks include Lukas Dhont’s Close from Belgium, Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO from Poland and Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985 from the eponymous country. RELATED: Deadline’s Contenders Film: … [Read more...] about Oscars: ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ Leads The Charge For Best International Feature Nominees, A First For Ireland & Some Snubs

Netflix has topped this year’s list of distributors nominated for BAFTA film awards for the fourth year running with 21 nominations overall. The platform was propelled to the top slot by a record-equalling haul of 14 nominations for Edward Berger’s German-language anti-war drama All Quiet On The Western Front . This is the highest number of BAFTA nominations for a Film Not In The English film since Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon in 2001, which was also nominated in 14 categories. The film went on to win the David Lean Award for Direction for Ang Lee, Best Film Not In The English Language, Costume and Music. It also marks the highest number of BAFTA nominations for an individual feature, since the King’s Speech in 2011, which was also nominated in 14 categories. Prior to that, the record was held by Gandhi with 16 nominations in 1982. The tally also makes All Quiet On The Western Netflix’s most BAFTA-nominated film since its first controversial triumph at … [Read more...] about Netflix Leads Distributors In BAFTA Nominations With Record-Equalling Haul For ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’

At the start of awards season, Edward Berger ’s All Quiet On The Western Front was a lock for International, but few could have foreseen how much further it would go. Alongside that nomination, the German film is now also in the running for Best Picture, having made the shortlist for Sound, Original Score, Adapted Screenplay, Makeup and Hairstyling, Production Design, Visual Effects and Cinematography. This grand haul follows its performance at the BAFTAs, where it gathered an astonishing 14 nominations in almost all major categories. As a result, the film joins Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2002) in second place to Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi (1981), which still holds the BAFTA record for nominations with 16. It’s a double-whammy that will surely prompt some second thoughts at Netflix: in a year that the streamer invested in some of cinema’s biggest names, one of its biggest critical hits is a foreign-language remake with no major stars, from a director best … [Read more...] about 2023 Oscars: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Earns Nine Nominations

Six months ago you would have got sky-high odds on the BAFTA nominations being dominated by a German-language film and movies by heavyweights Spielberg, James Cameron and Iñárritu only garnering a handful of nominations between them. That was what came to pass this morning with Netflix’s war film All Quiet On The Western Front pitching a whopping 14 nominations, a record-equalling number for a foreign-language movie (with 2001’s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon ) and only two off the all-time record for a single film ( Gandhi scored 16). The mega haul, including nods for Best Film and Director, is the most a film has garnered since The King’s Speech also got 14 back in 2011. It’s a special achievement and a sign of the growing influence and permeability of foreign-language films at awards ceremonies but also with the general public, partly thanks for the streaming revolution. Another movie that has exceeded all expectations is Everything Everywhere All At Once … [Read more...] about BAFTA Noms Snubs & Surprises: ‘All Quiet’ Blazes A Trail While ‘The Fabelmans’ & ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Sink In Major Categories

Over 50 years after Judy Blume ’s classic novel Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret was published, the author’s work is back in the spotlight on many fronts There’s a Margaret movie from Kelly Fremon Craig and Lionsgate coming this spring, and small-screen adaptation of 1975’s Forever in the works from a Mara Brock Akil and Netflix. However, leading the charge is the documentary Judy Blume Forever from Very Semi-Serious directors Davina Pardo and Leah Wolchok . Set to launch on Amazon Prime Video on April 21, the 97-minute film from  Imagine Documentaries had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this weekend. In many ways as much about octogenarian Blume’s legacy’s enmeshment with the state of free speech in 2023 America as it is about the writer’s life, the documentary straddles that rare divide of being a labor of love and a rigorous examination. RELATED: Sundance Film Festival: Deadline’s Complete Coverage “There’s … [Read more...] about ‘Judy Blume Forever’ Directors On The Author’s Legacy, Relevance & Banned Books In America – Sundance Q&A

Legal docudrama Saint Omer was voted Best Picture at the 34 th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, which announced this year’s juried award winners today. Saint Omer wins for its ability “to expertly interrogate issues of society, culture, race, and gender,” the festival release stated. “Alice Diop, as screenwriter and director, delivers a film that explores different dynamics of Black women in contemporary France, drawing empathetic lead performances from Kayije Kagame and Guslagie Malanga (whose characters never interact, save for one momentous glance). By harnessing the skills of her technical team, Diop turns Saint Omer into a shrewd, cogent, ambitious, and overwhelming film which teases a metafictional awareness while remaining clear-eyed and unsentimental.” The Palm Springs festival took place from January 5-16 and screened 134 films from 64 countries, including 27 premieres. The lineup includes 35 of the International Feature Film Oscar … [Read more...] about ‘Saint Omer’ Takes Top Honors At 34th Palm Springs Film Festival

Despite all of the uncertainty about the future of theatrical distribution, streaming services collectively took a step back in this year’s Oscar race, earning about half of the nominations they did a year ago. Netflix , Apple and Amazon accounted for 19 total nominations in this morning’s official field , down from 37 last year. Of course, 2022 was also the year Apple’s CODA broke through and won Best Picture. That milestone seemed to signify that the old divisions between conventionally released specialty and studio titles and those nurtured by streamers might be starting to diminish. Not so fast, Academy members seemed to say this time. Just one of the 10 Best Picture nominations went to a streaming feature — Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front . While that German-language film managed the impressive feat of gaining both Best Picture and Best International Feature nods (two of its nine overall), no other streaming title garnered more than one nomination. … [Read more...] about Oscars 2023: Streamers Beat A Retreat, Netting Half Of Last Year’s Nomination Tally

Nominations for the EE British Academy Film Awards will be unveiled Thursday in London via a livestream that begins at 12 GMT/4 AM PST. Actors Hayley Atwell and Toheeb Jimoh will reveal nominations from BAFTA headquarters at 195 Piccadilly. Among frontrunners for awards are Netflix’s German-language World War I drama All Quiet on the Western Front, which was longlisted in 15 categories, and Martin McDonagh’s tragicomedy The Banshees of Inisherin , which landed on 14 lists. All Quiet’s longlist showing is the largest haul a non-English language film has achieved during BAFTA’s longlist voting stage, which was first launched in 2021. The BAFTA ceremony will take place February 19 at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London and will be broadcast on BBC One and iPlayer in the UK. Actor Richard E. Grant has been set as the host, while British presenter Alison Hammond will lead the BAFTA studio, a new behind-the-scenes stream launched for this year’s … [Read more...] about BAFTA Film Awards Nominations: How To Watch Online

Netflix’s wartime epic All Quiet On The Western Front leads the 2023 BAFTA film awards with what new BAFTA CEO Jane Millichip described as an “extraordinary” haul of nominations across craft and performance categories. The German-language film nabbed 14 nominations, the most BAFTA noms for an individual film since The King’s Speech in 2011, which also had 14. Millichip, who this year oversees her first Film Awards as BAFTA CEO, said the film’s success represents the “mesmerizing” range of this year’s nominations as well as the films that can now be embraced by BAFTA voters. “I think that the breadth of storytelling is really interesting,” Millichip said. “So you have big commercial films like Elvis , which has nine nominations, and then indie films like Aftersun . There is also 40% ethnic diversity in our nominees.” All Quiet’s haul also matches the previous record set by Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon for the most nominations for a non-English … [Read more...] about BAFTA Heads Jane Millichip & Emma Baehr On An “Extraordinary” Nominations Outcome, Spielberg & Diversity

A commenter named Brad replied to an Oscar predictions piece I put up over the weekend and said: “There used to be a time when I anticipated the Oscar Nominations. But I feel that time has not been good to the Academy Awards and with so many awards ceremonies these days, the Oscars do not seem special like they once did.” He has a point, as did Cate Blanchett when, during her Critics Choice Award acceptance speech , she wished for the “televised awards horserace” to end and everyone be declared a winner. There is so much noise, so many precursor groups handing out awards that the Oscar nominations look more often like a rubber stamp these days, even if it clearly remains the only film award truly coveted. At 95 years old, it still will be the first line in any winner or nominee’s obit. But looking at today’s list of nominees , particularly Best Picture, can we say that any of them are actually surprising? Stunners? Shockers? Are any of them not the names we … [Read more...] about Oscar Nominations Analysis: Blockbusters, Acclaimed Indies, A Couple Of Surprises, Elvis & Marilyn Liven Up Mostly Predictable List