Netflix’s All Quiet On The Western Front leads the field at this year’s Bafta Film Awards, with 14 nominations.
The critically-acclaimed World War One epic is a new screen adaptation of the 1928 novel by Erich Maria Remarque.
Its strong showing makes it the first film to score 14 or more Bafta nods since The King’s Speech in 2011.
Elsewhere, The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All At Once get 10 nominations each, with Elvis following closely behind with nine.
The 14 nods for All Quiet On The Western Front means it ties with 2001’s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon as the foreign-language film with the most nominations in Bafta’s history
Nominees in the acting categories this year include Cate Blanchett, Emma Thompson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Yeoh, Eddie Redmayne and Viola Davis.
Several box office smashes have also been recognised in this year’s shortlist, including Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way of Water.
However, all of the nominations scored by both films are for technical prizes. In total, there are 45 films nominated this year across all categories.
There are some notable absences – such as actress Olivia Colman and director Steven Spielberg – neither of whom made the Bafta longlist.
But some omissions are thought to be at least partly due to the new methods the British Academy uses to determine nominees.
The Bafta Film Awards 2023 will take place on 19 February at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London. The ceremony, hosted by Richard E Grant, will air on BBC One.
All Quiet On The Western Front is a brutally violent but widely praised adaptation of the novel of the same name. It was previously adapted for the screen in 1930 and 1979.
Critics have lavished praise on the latest version, whish is directed by Edward Berger and stars Austrian actor Felix Kammerer.
The film looks at World War One from the German perspective, through the eyes of an idealistic young soldier named Paul Bäumer (Kammerer) who is confronted with the increasingly barbaric realities of war.
The last non-English language film to win the Bafta for best film was Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma in 2019.
In the top Bafta category, best film, it faces competition from Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley biopic, and Todd Field’s psychological drama Tár, which follows a disgraced orchestra conductor.—BBC.
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