ACCEPTANCE SPEECH: INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM - ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

By Oscars® and Academy Awards® and Olivia Marshall

First Published 17/03/2023

Location: LA

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"ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT"

Germany

EDWARD BERGER:  Um, thank you.  This means so much to us.  So I met so many new friends on this movie.  My cinematographer, James Friend, whose won Academy Awards.  My costume designer, Lisy Christl, my production designer, Christian M. Goldbeck, hair and makeup designer, Heike Merker, and I owe everything to you.  I owe everything to you and the rest of my crew.  

But the other day, I walked into a brunch here, and I met another cinematographer, James --don’t, don’t, it's about another movie—and Florian Hoffmeister who was also nominated for an Academy Award for Tár.  And we held each other.  We are from the same town.  We held each other.  And for 30 years, we made our first movie together.  I was his assistant, and we  we held each other, and for 30 years, it felt like there was an embrace of all the hard work that went into this.  And it is just deeply moving for all of us.  

Thank you Netflix for supporting us.  Thank you to my wife and my kids.  Thank you Ted Sarandos, Sasha Bhler, Scott Stuber, and David Kosse for making our movie.  

Thank you, Malte Gruner, these two wonderful actors, my producer, Daniel Dreifuss and Malte Gruner, the actors, and especially, Felix Kammerer.  This is was your first movie.  This was your first movie, and you carried us on your shoulders as if it was nothing.  Without you, none of us would be here.  Thank you, Felix.