'All Quiet on the Western Front' won seven BAFTAs and has nine Oscar nominations, including one for San Diegan Lesley Paterson.
A San Diego five-time world champion triathlete is executive producer of an epic film up for nine Academy Awards.
Now the German-language movie is up for nine Oscars, including nominations for best picture, best international feature, cinematography and adapted screenplay, heading into Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony. A day before the competition, she took a nasty tumble on her bike, then strategized as to how she still could compete in the race. She needed the prize money to help pay for the five-figure option renewal fee for book rights to “All Quiet on the Western Front” — her dream project.
“We tried to get it made 12 years ourselves, and it was like pushing a boulder up the hill. Everybody was scared of it,” Stokell told journalists covering the BAFTA awards. Paterson had wanted the movie to portray the horror and futility of war through the eyes of a 17-year-old German soldier. It was not fun and games as many of the young, gullible German boys were encouraged to believe.
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