3 Must Watch Best Picture Nominees That Lost out at the Oscars

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This is perhaps the most unexpected entry on the list but those who have watched, and in my case re-watched, this Netflix classic would not want anyone else to miss out. The German War Drama or I should rather say Anti-War Drama, has brought back memories of classics like Saving Private Ryan and the original All Quiet on the Western Front.

The movie is centered around the life of a young and passionate young German Boy, Paul Braumer, who gets swept off his feet by the German Empire’s war propaganda and lies to his parents to gleefully join up Germany’s war effort against the Allies.

But soon, the brutal realities of trench warfare wash away Braumer’s nationalistic fervor as he watches his comrades sacrificed to the bloated egos of war-mongering Generals.

All the while in the background sane voices in the newly elected German government fight a diplomatic and political battle of their own to secure an armistice to end the bloody conflict which Germany has clearly lost.

But despite being an excellent commentary on the horrors of war the movie does not waste too much time trying to sell meta-narratives to viewers. Instead, it’s almost a point of view (POV) experience of Braumer’s life and the changes war brings into his young personality.

And yes, the music is mesmerizing, no wonder the movie bagged the best original score award at the Oscars, which I think is not enough of a consolation.