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"All Quiet on the Western Front" premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last September to strong reviews, then debuted on Netflix in October. By many accounts, it was not a horse the streaming giant was heavily backing heading into awards season -- after all, it had new films from Noah Baumbach, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Andrew Dominik and Rian Johnson among its stable. Yet it leads the BAFTAs with 14 nominations and has received nine nominations at the Academy Awards, becoming the first German-language film to make the cut for Best Picture.

The film has not been without criticism at home, tabloid Bild accusing "All Quiet" of "Oscar-Geilheit" (or "Oscar-lust"). Whether it was looking for trophies or not, The Academy has a soft spot for war movies (16 have won Best Picture to date, including Milestone's 1930 adaptation). That it has looked outside the English language for its fix this year is a sign of more international and inclusive times.
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"If we can make a film that leaves the audience, like its protagonist, empty, tired and sort of questioning everything — for at least a minute — we (would have) achieved a lot. Then we can sit here and talk about it. It's not going to change the world ... but at least it's a conversation that we can have. Because apparently, we always forget."