This year’s Oscar awards gala is not hitting big surprises and those who had the clear pools may be getting it right, because Netflix He has achieved his third prize of the night with the statuette to Best international film.
Another sung for Netflix
Among the nominees this year we had ‘All Quiet on the Front’, ‘Argentina, 1985’, ‘Close’, ‘Eo’ and ‘The Quiet Girl’, but again… well, there has been no news on the front. The German film on Netflix has finally taken the cat into the water, and ‘No news at the front‘ (‘Im Westen nichts Neues’) is the Best International Film of the night.
‘Quiet on the front’ had nine nominations in his pocket including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, and expectations are pretty high after it swept the BAFTAs.
It is the second time that Erich Maria Remarque’s anti-war novel has been adapted into a film, and the 1930 version already won the Best Film statuette at the third edition of the awards. So if the new ‘No news at the front’ hit the jackpot, I would break a small record with the remake.
The truth is that ‘All Quiet on the Front’ had practically secured the statuette for Best International Film and had eaten its competitors in the pools. Now let’s see if the night continues just as well for Edward Berger and ends up singing a line at the Academy Awards.