You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and these are Will Mavity's interviews

with the Oscar-nominated cinematographer for All Quiet on the Western Front, James Friend,

the sound designer Marcus Stemler, and production designer Christian M. Goldbeck, followed by

Dan Baer's interview with the Oscar-nominated makeup artist, Hiker Merker.

We hope you appreciate this behind-scenes look

at all five on the Western Front,

nominated for nine Academy Awards,

including Best Picture and Best International Feature

of the Year.

So getting into it specifically, one of the most obvious aspects that stands out with this particular film is that probably 80% of the shots are in the elements.

There's lots of mud, there's lots of rain, there's lots of snow. And as I understand it,

it was a pretty practical shoot. So when it looked muddy and it looked cold, it was. So tell me a

little bit about the experience of really shooting in the elements like that. I mean, we wanted to capture the elements,

so the best way in order to capture those elements is to be in them. And we timed it in that time

of year where the elements were pretty brutal. But as brutal as they were on the cast and the crew, they look great on camera.

And also they need, so the breath was real, the, you know, the red cheeks were real,

the, the shivering was real, to be perfectly honest.

It left very little to the imagination.

So, to be perfectly honest, I'm doing myself a bit of a

disservice here, but it kind of made my life and job a lot easier because it kind of felt more

like documenting something than it did engineering something.

It felt more like capturing than,

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