When the big moment came, what Edward Berger wanted to prevent happened. He pulls the wrong speech out of his jacket pocket. The one for the best screenplay instead of the one for the best international film. The director reads, stops short, thanks a little awkwardly for the second of the four Oscars that his work “Nothing New on the West” at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, Los Angeles, receives. But you can also really get confused on this evening.
Nine nominations! Four Oscars! More than any other German film before.
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