Edward Berger

Austrian and Swiss director and screenwriter

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Edward Berger

Berger in 2018

Born| 1970 (age 53-54)

Wolfsburg, West Germany

Nationality| Austrian, Swiss
Education| New York University, 1995

Edward Berger (born 1970) is a West German-born Austrian[1] and Swiss[2] director and screenwriter. He notably directed German films Jack (2014), All My Loving (2019), and All Quiet on the Western Front (2022). For the latter, Berger received numerous accolades, including two British Academy Film Awards for Best Direction and Best Adapted Screenplay, while the film won Best Film Not in the English Language and the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.

## Early life and education

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Edward Berger graduated from Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium in Wolfsburg.[3] Born in West Germany,[4] he holds Swiss citizenship as his mother was from Switzerland[4] and Austrian citizenship through his father. He attended the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig from 1990 to 1991 and then transferred to the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where he finished his studies in directing in 1994.[5] At NYU, he created numerous short films, which were screened at many international film festivals.

## Career

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Berger gathered his first work experience at the U.S. independent production company Good Machine, working, among others, on the films of Ang Lee and Todd Haynes. Additionally, he gave lectures and carried out workshops at Columbia University, and at Universität der Künste Berlin[6] and at the HFF Potsdam.

Berger has lived in Berlin since 1997. His first feature based on his own screenplay was Gomez. He also worked as a screenplay author and director for episodes of the television series KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst. Aside from television productions, for which he frequently wrote screenplays, he has also directed films. In 2012, his film A Good Summer [de] was awarded the Grimme-Preis. His film Jack was invited into the official competition at the Berlinale 2014 and awarded the 2015 German Film Award in silver for the best feature film. Since August 2014, Berger has directed the eight-part television series Deutschland 83, for which he won an International Emmy after premiering it at the 2015 Berlinale. He also directed the limited series Patrick Melrose, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, for which he won his first BAFTA Award for the Best Limited Series. In 2022, Berger wrote and directed All Quiet on the Western Front, for which he won the Academy Award for Best International Film while receiving a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Picture and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film went on to win a total of four Academy Awards and seven BAFTAS, among them a BAFTA Award for Best Direction, a BAFTA Award for Best International Film and a BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, making it the most successful foreign language film ever. Edward Berger won Best European Film at the Septimius Awards.[7][8]

## Filmography

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### Film

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Year  | Title  | Director | Writer | Producer

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1998  | Gomez – Kopf oder Zahl | Yes  | Yes  | No
2001  | Female 2 Seeks Happy End | Yes  | Yes  | No
2014  | Jack | Yes  | Yes  | No
2019  | All My Loving | Yes  | Yes  | No
2022  | All Quiet on the Western Front | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
2024  | Conclave | Yes  | No  | No
TBA  | The Ballad of a Small Player | Yes  | No  | Yes

### Television

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TV series

* 2001, 2002: Schimanski (2 episodes)
* 2004: Bloch (Episode "Schwestern")
* 2005, 2006: Unter Verdacht (Wrote 2 episodes, directed 1 episode)
* 2006: Tatort (Episode "Das letzte Rennen [de]")
* 2008: KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst (Director of 3 episodes and book with 2 episodes)
* 2010: Polizeiruf 110 (Wrote and directed episode "Aquarius")
* 2013: Tatort (Episode "Wer das Schweigen bricht [de]")
* 2015: Deutschland 83
* 2018: The Terror
* 2018: Patrick Melrose
* 2020: Your Honor

TV movies

* 2007: Windland
* 2011: A Good Summer [de] (screenwriter and director)
* 2012: Mom's Gotta Go [de] (director)

## Awards and prizes

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* 1998: Winner of the Film Prize of the City Lünen at the Kinofest Lünen for Gomez – Kopf oder Zahl
* 2000: Variety Award "Ten European Directors To Watch" for Female 2 Seeks Happy End
* 2003: Nomination for the Adolf-Grimme-Preis for the episode Asyl – crime series Schimanski
* 2004: Nomination for the International Emmy Award for the episode Asyl – crime series Schimanski
* 2012: Adolf-Grimme-Preis for A Good Summer
* 2013: Nomination for the Adolf-Grimme-Preis for Mom's Gotta Go
* 2013: Nomination for the Hamburger Krimipreis for Mom's Gotta Go
* 2014: Audience Prize at the filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Schwerin for Jack
* 2014: Audience Prize at the Festival of German Film in Ludwigshafen for Jack
* 2014: Prize for the best screenplay at the Fünf-Seen-Filmfestival in Starnberg for Jack
* 2014: Filmfest Lünen, School Children aged 10+ Prize for Jack
* 2014: Deutscher Regiepreis Metropolis for best film for Jack
* 2015: Bavarian Film Prize for Jack, VGF Bester Nachwuchsproduzent
* 2015: TV-Festival Séries Mania Paris, Best World Drama for Deutschland 83
* 2015: European Youth Film Festival of Flanders, Best Feature Film for Jack
* 2015: Nomination for the German Film Prize Lola in the categories Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Feature Film for Jack
* 2015: German Film Prize in Silver for the Best Feature Film for Jack
* 2022: National Board of Review Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for All Quiet on the Western Front
* 2022: San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for All Quiet on the Western Front
* 2023: BAFTA Award for Best Direction for All Quiet on the Western Front
* 2023: BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for All Quiet on the Western Front
* 2023: Septimius Awards for All Quiet on the Western Front [9]

## References

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1. ^ "ZEIT ONLINE | Lesen Sie zeit.de mit Werbung oder im PUR-Abo. Sie haben die Wahl".
2. ^ "e-TALENTA". www.e-talenta.eu. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
3. ^ Tatort: Wolfsburger als Regisseur erfolgreich. Archived 2018-04-06 at the Wayback Machine Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, retrieved, 29 April 2015
4. ^ a b https://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/Edward+Berger/0/31803.html munzinger.de
5. ^ Edward Bergers Profil Archived 2017-08-04 at the Wayback Machine bei der Agentur Die Agenten, retrieved, 20 January 2014
6. ^ "Vita Edward Berger". Soup Film. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
7. ^ "Felix Kammerer & Edward Berger win Best European Film & Best European Actor at the Septimius Awards 2023". Journal. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
8. ^ "Edward Berger - Awards". IMDb. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
9. ^ "Septimius Awards (2023)". IMDb. Retrieved 2023-11-06.

## External links

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* Official website
* Edward Berger at IMDb

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Works directed by Edward Berger

Films|

* Jack (2014)
* All My Loving (2019)
* All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
* Conclave (2024)
* The Ballad of a Small Player (TBA)

Miniseries|

* Patrick Melrose (2018)

Awards for Edward Berger

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Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

1947–1955
(Honorary)|

* 1947: Shoeshine – Vittorio De Sica
* 1948: Monsieur Vincent – Maurice Cloche
* 1949: Bicycle Thieves – Vittorio De Sica
* 1950: The Walls of Malapaga – René Clément
* 1951: Rashomon – Akira Kurosawa
* 1952: Forbidden Games – René Clément
* 1953: No Award
* 1954: Gate of Hell – Teinosuke Kinugasa
* 1955: Samurai, The Legend of Musashi – Hiroshi Inagaki

1956–1975|

* 1956: La Strada – Federico Fellini
* 1957: Nights of Cabiria – Federico Fellini
* 1958: My Uncle – Jacques Tati
* 1959: Black Orpheus – Marcel Camus
* 1960: The Virgin Spring – Ingmar Bergman
* 1961: Through a Glass Darkly – Ingmar Bergman
* 1962: Sundays and Cybèle – Serge Bourguignon
* 1963: 8½ – Federico Fellini
* 1964: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow – Vittorio De Sica
* 1965: The Shop on Main Street – Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos
* 1966: A Man and a Woman – Claude Lelouch
* 1967: Closely Watched Trains – Jiří Menzel
* 1968: War and Peace – Sergei Bondarchuk
* 1969: Z – Costa-Gavras
* 1970: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion – Elio Petri
* 1971: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Vittorio De Sica
* 1972: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie – Luis Buñuel
* 1973: Day for Night – François Truffaut
* 1974: Amarcord – Federico Fellini
* 1975: Dersu Uzala – Akira Kurosawa

1976–2000|

* 1976: Black and White in Color – Jean-Jacques Annaud
* 1977: Madame Rosa – Moshé Mizrahi
* 1978: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs – Bertrand Blier
* 1979: The Tin Drum – Volker Schlöndorff
* 1980: Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears – Vladimir Menshov
* 1981: Mephisto – István Szabó
* 1982: Volver a Empezar ('To Begin Again') – José Luis Garci
* 1983: Fanny and Alexander – Ingmar Bergman
* 1984: Dangerous Moves – Richard Dembo
* 1985: The Official Story – Luis Puenzo
* 1986: The Assault – Fons Rademakers
* 1987: Babette's Feast – Gabriel Axel
* 1988: Pelle the Conqueror – Bille August
* 1989: Cinema Paradiso – Giuseppe Tornatore
* 1990: Journey of Hope – Xavier Koller
* 1991: Mediterraneo – Gabriele Salvatores
* 1992: Indochine – Régis Wargnier
* 1993: Belle Époque – Fernando Trueba
* 1994: Burnt by the Sun – Nikita Mikhalkov
* 1995: Antonia's Line – Marleen Gorris
* 1996: Kolya – Jan Svěrák
* 1997: Character – Mike van Diem
* 1998: Life Is Beautiful – Roberto Benigni
* 1999: All About My Mother – Pedro Almodóvar
* 2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – Ang Lee

2001–present|

* 2001: No Man's Land – Danis Tanović
* 2002: Nowhere in Africa – Caroline Link
* 2003: The Barbarian Invasions – Denys Arcand
* 2004: The Sea Inside – Alejandro Amenábar
* 2005: Tsotsi – Gavin Hood
* 2006: The Lives of Others – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
* 2007: The Counterfeiters – Stefan Ruzowitzky
* 2008: Departures – Yōjirō Takita
* 2009: The Secret in Their Eyes – Juan José Campanella
* 2010: In a Better World – Susanne Bier
* 2011: A Separation – Asghar Farhadi
* 2012: Amour – Michael Haneke
* 2013: The Great Beauty – Paolo Sorrentino
* 2014: Ida – Paweł Pawlikowski
* 2015: Son of Saul – László Nemes
* 2016: The Salesman – Asghar Farhadi
* 2017: A Fantastic Woman – Sebastián Lelio
* 2018: Roma – Alfonso Cuarón
* 2019: Parasite – Bong Joon-ho
* 2020: Another Round – Thomas Vinterberg
* 2021: Drive My Car – Ryusuke Hamaguchi
* 2022: All Quiet on the Western Front – Edward Berger
* 2023: The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer

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BAFTA Award for Best Direction

1968–2000|

* Mike Nichols (1968)
* John Schlesinger (1969)
* George Roy Hill (1970)
* John Schlesinger (1971)
* Bob Fosse (1972)
* François Truffaut (1973)
* Roman Polanski (1974)
* Stanley Kubrick (1975)
* Miloš Forman (1976)
* Woody Allen (1977)
* Alan Parker (1978)
* Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
* Akira Kurosawa (1980)
* Louis Malle (1981)
* Richard Attenborough (1982)
* Bill Forsyth (1983)
* Wim Wenders (1984)
* No Award (1985)
* Woody Allen (1986)
* Oliver Stone (1987)
* Louis Malle (1988)
* Kenneth Branagh (1989)
* Martin Scorsese (1990)
* Alan Parker (1991)
* Robert Altman (1992)
* Steven Spielberg (1993)
* Mike Newell (1994)
* Michael Radford (1995)
* Joel Coen (1996)
* Baz Luhrmann (1997)
* Peter Weir (1998)
* Pedro Almodóvar (1999)
* Ang Lee (2000)

2001–present|

* Peter Jackson (2001)
* Roman Polanski (2002)
* Peter Weir (2003)
* Mike Leigh (2004)
* Ang Lee (2005)
* Paul Greengrass (2006)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
* Danny Boyle (2008)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
* David Fincher (2010)
* Michel Hazanavicius (2011)
* Ben Affleck (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2015)
* Damien Chazelle (2016)
* Guillermo del Toro (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* Sam Mendes (2019)
* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Edward Berger (2022)
* Christopher Nolan (2023)

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BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

1983–2000|

* Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1983)
* Bruce Robinson (1984)
* Richard Condon and Janet Roach (1985)
* Kurt Luedtke (1986)
* Claude Berri and Gérard Brach (1987)
* Jean-Claude Carrière and Philip Kaufman (1988)
* Christopher Hampton (1989)
* Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese (1990)
* Dick Clement, Roddy Doyle and Ian La Frenais (1991)
* Michael Tolkin (1992)
* Steven Zaillian (1993)
* Paul Attanasio (1994)
* John Hodge (1995)
* Anthony Minghella (1996)
* Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce (1997)
* Elaine May (1998)
* Neil Jordan (1999)
* Stephen Gaghan (2000)

2001–present|

* Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Roger S. H. Schulman and Joe Stillman (2001)
* Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman (2002)
* Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh (2003)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
* Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (2005)
* Jeremy Brock and Peter Morgan (2006)
* Ronald Harwood (2007)
* Simon Beaufoy (2008)
* Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (2009)
* Aaron Sorkin (2010)
* Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan (2011)
* David O. Russell (2012)
* Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope (2013)
* Anthony McCarten (2014)
* Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (2015)
* Luke Davies (2016)
* James Ivory (2017)
* Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel and Kevin Willmott (2018)
* Taika Waititi (2019)
* Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller (2020)
* Sian Heder (2021)
* Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson and Ian Stokell (2022)
* Cord Jefferson (2023)

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National Board of Review Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

* Ted Tally (2000)
* Robert Festinger and Todd Field (2001)
* Charlie Kaufman (2002)
* Anthony Minghella (2003)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
* Stephen Gaghan (2005)
* Ron Nyswaner (2006)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
* Simon Beaufoy / Eric Roth (2008)
* Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (2009)
* Aaron Sorkin (2010)
* Nat Faxon, Alexander Payne and Jim Rash (2011)
* David O. Russell (2012)
* Terence Winter (2013)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2014)
* Drew Goddard (2015)
* Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese (2016)
* Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (2017)
* Barry Jenkins (2018)
* Steven Zaillian (2019)
* Paul Greengrass and Luke Davies (2020)
* Joel Coen (2021)
* Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson and Ian Stokell (2022)
* Tony McNamara (2023)

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San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

* Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997)
* Scott Smith (1998)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (1999)
* Robert Nelson Jacobs (2000)
* Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff (2001)
* Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman (2002)
* Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (2003)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
* Dan Futterman (2005)
* Jason Reitman (2006)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2007)
* Simon Beaufoy (2008)
* Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach (2009)
* Aaron Sorkin (2010)
* Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin (2011)
* Chris Terrio (2012)
* Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke (2013)
* Gillian Flynn (2014)
* Emma Donoghue (2015)
* Whit Stillman (2016)
* Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (2017)
* Peter Fellows, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, and David Schneider (2018)
* J.C. Lee and Julius Onah (2019)
* Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, and Ian Stokell (2022)
* Kelly Fremon Craig and Judy Blume (2023)

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