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Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing Sound Effects Foley Dialogue and ADR for Documentary Feature Film | 2019
Best Use of Footage in a Cinematic Feature | 2019
Best Documentary Feature | 2019
Best Documentary | 2019
Best Documentary | 2019
Best Documentary Feature | 2020
Cinema for Peace Award for the Most Valuable Documentary of the Year | 2019
Most Valuable Documentary of the Year | 2019
Best Documentary | 2019
Best Documentary Film | 2019
Documentary of the Year | 2019
IFFR Audience Award | 2019
Box Office Collection 20,904,188 USD
Much of the footage had never been seen, having sat in the vaults of London's Imperial War Museum for many years.
The crew reviewed over 600 hours of interviews with over 200 soldiers, and 100 hours of original footage. Peter Jackson claimed a full year was spent just reviewing the material.
Peter Jackson considers this his most personal film, due to his lifelong fascination with WWI and the resonance he felt through his grandfather who died before his birth due to war injuries. Such was his interest in the subject that when production on the documentary began he already had a large personal collection in storage of WW1 uniforms and weapons to be used for reference.
It was a deliberate choice not to identify the soldiers or battlegrounds as that would ground the film in too many facts and slow it down. Instead, the desire was to make this about the experience of being a soldier.
Sir Peter Jackson did not receive any fee for the film, as he made the film as a dedication to his great-grandfather who fought in WW1, and was also initially interested in making a film with literal 100 year old footage.
"Soldier: [waving at camera] Hi, mum."
"Soldier: You don't look, you see. You don't hear, you listen. You taste the top of your mouth. Your nose is filled with fumes and death. But the veneer of civilization has dropped away."
