Six months ago you would have got sky-high odds on the BAFTA nominations being dominated by a German-language film and movies by heavyweights Spielberg, James Cameron and Iñárritu only garnering a handful of nominations between them.
That was what came to pass this morning with Netflix’s war film All Quiet On The Western Front pitching a whopping 14 nominations, a record-equalling number for a foreign-language movie (with 2001’s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon) and only two off the all-time record for a single film (Gandhi scored 16).
The mega haul, including nods for Best Film and Director, is the most a film has garnered since The King’s Speech also got 14 back in 2011.
It’s truly a remarkable achievement and a sign of the growing influence and permeability of foreign-language films at awards ceremonies but also with the general public, partly thanks for the streaming revolution.
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