‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Composer Volker Bertelmann Wins Original Score Oscar
variety.comJon Burlingame editor German composer Volker Bertelmann won the original score Oscar Sunday night for his music for the World War I epic “All Quiet on the Western Front.” “By working on a film like that, you are always touched,” Bertelmann said in accepting the honor, referring to the harrowing nature of the film. “Sometimes you have to make the screen very small because there are so many explosions happening.” It is Bertelmann’s first Academy Award.
He was previously nominated, under his stage name Hauschka, for his music for the 2016 film “Lion” (co-composed with Dustin O’Halloran).
He won the BAFTA for “All Quiet” on Feb. 19. The German-language remake of the 1930 antiwar classic is the latest in a series of collaborations with director Edward Berger.
Their best-known work in the U.S. is the five-part Benedict Cumberbatch series “Patrick Melrose,” which aired in 2018 on Showtime.
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