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As well as bagging four Oscars and nine BAFTAs, Edward Berger's WW1 drama All Quiet on the Western Front cemented its place in pop-culture history by becoming an internet meme. Under 'how it started', the meme shows the film's protagonist, Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer), as a laughing, idealistic new…

EXCLUSIVE: Christopher Reich’s Simon Riske book series is headed to the screen as Netflix has re-teamed with Edward Berger, the Oscar-winning director, co-writer and producer of the streamer’s All Quiet on the Western Front, on a drama series adaptation, sources tell Deadline. Berger is set to direct the…

There's always a reckoning. There has to be. A studio chief tells me that next awards season they're going to recalibrate how they screen to voters “because there are a bunch of movies that people did not bother to see. Good movies that people did not watch because they were drawn to the noise. And the…

All Quiet on the Western Front scooped the Best International Feature Film Oscar this evening, after earlier taking the Cinematography trophy and then winning for Production Design and Original Score. Such categories in which it is also nominated, including Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay and Sound are…

It's transfer time for Phil Dunster, who has played AFC Richmond's star striker Jamie Tartt on the Emmy-winning comedy drama Ted Lasso for three seasons. The actor is joining Gugu Mbatha-Raw on Season 2 of her psychological thriller Surface, Breaking Baz can reveal. Both Ted Lasso and Surface are…

When writer-director-producer Edward Berger set out to do a new version of Erich Maria Remarque’s classic antiwar novel All Quiet on the Western Front, he had no idea that this first-ever German-language film version of the World War I story would become so…

Edward Berger says he didn't realize the BAFTAs were going his way until the final award of the night, when Best Film became the seventh trophy to add to his film's haul. If he'd known that All Quiet on the Western Front, his adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's First World War novel would do so well, he…

Heading into production on his anti-war epic All Quiet on the Western Front, based on the seminal 1929 novel by Eric Maria Remarque, filmmaker Edward Berger was “very afraid” of creating a work that would have “any kind of visual effect feeling.” The Netflix film, he says, “had to feel like we did it…

"I was always a big fan of the original movie, but I did feel while watching subsequent American or British war films that is a question of perspective that I can't tell," All Quiet on the Western Front director Edward Berger said of his motivation in finally bringing a German version of the iconic World…

Oscar-nominated All Quiet on the Western Front director Edward Berger has launched a production outfit and struck a first-look deal with Fremantle. Berger has forged Nine Hours with partner Luke Rivett (The Tomorrow Man) and producer Jeanne Tremsal (So Long Daddy, See You in Hell) and the indie will…

It looks like it’s a forward march into Oscars season with the heavily accoladed war-drama All Quiet on the Western Front. Following its impressive 14 nomination count at the BAFTAs in almost all major categories, the film’s director Edward Berger and producer Malte Grunert now sound off to the tune of…

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…