Never mind whether this adaptation of the anti-war classic deserves to win — could it be this year’s genuine Best Picture upset?
but this was a project with far more ambition and scope. The only star with name recognition outside of Germany was Daniel Brühl, and his role as an official attempting to negotiate a cease-fire is relatively small. The serious FYC ads and bonus bells and whistles, i.e. your making-of featurettes and below-the-line Q&As, didn’t start showing up untilthe nominations were announced and Netflix realized they had something with red-carpet potential, at which point they became ubiquitous.
Berger’s film still seemed like an outlier until the BAFTAs, which gave the film 14 nominations and eventually handed it seven awards, including Best Picture. To say this momentarily threw a wrench into the idea that this year’s Oscars would be a cut-and-dried affair is understating things. As
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