After having amazed critics as well as Internet users, the German drama from Netflix In the west, nothing is new leads the 2023 BAFTA nominations. A major first for a non-English language film since Tiger and Dragon.
Awards season is in full swing. After the Golden Globes and the Critics’ Choice Awards, the stars of the cinema will soon parade on the red carpet of the BAFTAs, the English equivalent of the César and the Oscars. A month before the ceremony, which will take place on February 19 at the Southbank Center in London, the nominations have fallen and against all odds, it is german war movie In the west, nothing is newproduced and posted on netflixwhich is found leading with 14 nominations. Never has a non-English language film had so many nominations in the history of the BAFTAs since Tiger and Dragonreleased in 2000.
In the west, nothing is new in the running for the BAFTA for best film
The original Netflix production, adapted from a 1929 pacifist novel, has a total of fourteen nominations, including Best Film, Best Director for Edward Berger and Best Supporting Actor for Albrecht Schuch. Competition will be tough for the German actor, who will face Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan from the film The Banshees of InisherinKe Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All At Once), Eddie Reydman (Murders without order) and Michael Ward (Empire of Light). The dramatic comedy The Banshees of Inisherin and science fiction movie Everything Everywhere All At Once received ten nominations. The biopic Elvis is not left out since he obtained nine nominations, including that of the best actor for Austin Butler, who recently won a Golden Globe for his interpretation of the King. The BAFTA ceremony, like that of the Golden Globes, is often considered a taste of the Oscars for cinema, which will take place on March 12 at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.
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As a reminder, this film by German director Edward Berger follows the story of Paul Bäumer, a young man of barely 18 who usurps his parents’ signature to enlist as a soldier. Nourished by the Kaiser’s propaganda, he wants with his friends Albert Kropp and Frantz Müller to participate in the military success of Germany. Assigned to the 78th artillery regiment in the north of France, Paul quickly discovers the reality of war. The young man realizes that far from the idealism and the nationalist romanticism that he had made of this experience, the war is an atrocious butchery. Just landed on Netflix, In the west, nothing is new was unanimous and quickly won the title of “best movie of the year“.
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