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BAFTA red carpet rolls out for 'All Quiet' and 'Banshees'
A gut-wrenching war movie from Germany and pitch-black Irish comedy were the big winners at the BAFTA awards on Sunday, with less than a month to go to the Oscars.
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German movie director and screenwriter Edward Berger poses with the award for Best director for 'All Quiet on the Western Front' during the BAFTA British Academy Film Awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, in London, on February 19, 2023. (AFP/Justin Tallis)
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gut-wrenching war movie from Germany and pitch-black Irish comedy were the big winners as British cinema handed out its annual BAFTA awards on Sunday, with less than a month to go to the Oscars.
With 14 nods, German director Edward Berger's All Quiet on the Western Front started the night as the joint most-nominated foreign-language film in the BAFTA academy's 76-year history.
The Netflix drama triumphed with seven awards, including best film and best director for Berger, as well as original score and cinematography, in the buildup to the Academy Awards on March 12.
Berger credited his daughter Matilda for turning his "doubts into trust", after she told him he had to make a movie of Erich Maria Remarque's powerful 1929 novel, which she was reading in school.
Producer Malte Grunert said the British plaudits for a German-language film were "just incredible", and it has also amassed nine Oscar nominations.
With a nod to modern-day conflicts including Russia's invasion of Ukraine, he said that the film and novel showed that "war is anything but an adventure".
The German movie had tied with Ang Lee's martial arts drama Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, co-starring Michelle Yeoh, which also earned 14 BAFTA nominations in 2001.
