Netflix picked up some big wins at the 95th Academy Awards, including the International Feature Oscar for “All Quiet on the Western Front” and its first Animated Feature Oscar for “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.”
Overall, Netflix picked up six Oscars on Sunday, having received 16 total nominations this year.
“All Quiet on the Western Front”, directed by Edward Berger, won four Oscars (out of nine nominations), taking home trophies for International Feature, Cinematography (James Friend), Original Score (Volker Bertelmann) and production design (Christian M. Goldbeck, Ernestine Hipper). The film – a dark and disturbing adaptation of the famous First World War novel – had topped the UK’s BAFTA Awards with a record seven wins, including Best Picture, Director (Berger), Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography , sound, original music and non – Film in English.
Del Toro’s “Pinocchio,” a stop-motion adaptation of the classic fairy tale, beat out four other category contenders, including Netflix’s “The Sea Beast,” A24’s “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On,” “Universal-DreamWorks Animation” Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” and Disney-Pixar’s “Turning Red”.
Netflix also won in the Documentary Shorts category for “The Elephant Whisperers,” which follows Bomman and Bellie, an indigenous South Indian couple, who dedicate their lives to caring for an orphaned baby elephant named Raghu. . Director Kartiki Gonsalves spent five years chronicling Bomman and Bellie for the documentary.
Previously, Netflix won 16 Oscars (out of 116 nominations) and has mounted aggressive awards campaigns over the past few years. But to date, he hasn’t been able to pull off a win on the best picture front; this year, “All Quiet on the Western Front” was nominated in the category, which went to A24’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
At the 2022 Oscars, Netflix only won one trophy: Jane Campion’s victory for directing “The Power of the Dog”. That was after Netflix led the pack with 27 nominations, including 12 for “Power of the Dog” and four for Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up” (both up for Best Picture).
In 2021, Netflix won seven Oscars, more than any other studio that year. This included two each for David Fincher’s “Mank” and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”, adapted from the play by August Wilson. In 2020, Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” was cleared of the Oscars after receiving 10 nominations. Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” won three Oscars in 2019, for directing, cinematography and foreign language film.