All Quiet On The Western Front star Felix Kammerer was thrilled when he discovered the German war film received 14 BAFTA nominations on Thursday. 
With its impressive stack of nods, the critically-acclaimed film equalled a record for the non-English language film holding the most nominations in BAFTA's history. 
The Austrian actor, who plays German soldier Paul Baumer, reacted to the amazing news on Instagram.




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Incredible: With its impressive stack of nods, the critically-acclaimed film equalled a record for the non-English language film holding the most nominations in BAFTA's history

Among its 14 nominations, All Quiet On The Western Front received nods for Best Film, casting, costume design, editing and cinematography.
Albrecht Schuch has also been nominated for Best Supporting Actor while Edward Berger was recognised for Best Director.
It was also nominated in the Film Not In English Language category, where it is up against the likes of Corsage, Decision To Leave, The Quiet Girl and Argentina, 1985.
Its other nods were for make-up and hair, original score, production design, special visual effects, sound and for Best Adapted Screenplay.











Acclaim: The movie follows the life of German soldier Paul Baumer (Felix Kammerer), who, after enlisting in the Army with his friends, finds himself confronting the harrowing realities of war, shattering their hopes of becoming heroes

Speaking in 2018, she told Salzburger Nachrichten of her childhood: 'I was raised to be humble and become an able person. But first and foremost I was raised lovingly here in Salzburg, where everything began.'
Meanwhile, Felix's father Hans, 57, is best known for his roles in 2007's Jules Massenet: Manon, 2006's Moses und Aron (2006), and 1987's Der Tod des Empedokles oder: Wenn dann der Erde Grun von neuem Euch erglanzt.
The baritone still shows off his talents on stage and is set to star in Werther at Wiener Staatsoper opera house in Vienna in November, followed by an appearance in Die Fledermaus in January.
As a child, Felix travelled all around the world due to his mother's globetrotting career and visited places including South America, Japan, America and Europe.
Speaking to Austrian website news.at, he said of his childhood: 'It was a huge gift… You come into contact with many people, learn a lot, see a lot of the world and become well educated.'





Childhood: Before his astonishing rise to fame, Felix, 27, grew up in Wien, Austria, and was born to two esteemed opera singers, Hans Peter Kammerer and Angelika Kirchschlager (pictured in November 1999), on September 19, 1995

Felix, who is 1.78metres tall, is known to keep his personal life very private and only recently joined Instagram.

He is currently believed to be single.
After his success on stage, Felix has turned his talents to the screen with his first ever leading role on Netflix's All Quiet On The Western Front. However, he has no intention to leave his theatre roots behind him.
He told Austria's WEB.DE: 'My dream is that I can do both [film and theatre].
Because I realize I need the theatre, that's where I come from.'
As a child, he had a small role as Johannes in David im Wunderland in 1998 and last year, he appeared in Durer, before bagging a role in a single episode of Artour this year.

But the war epic marked his first leading movie role in his budding career.





Family: As a child, Felix (pictured with his mother as a child in Le Nozze di Figero) travelled around the world due to his mother Angelika's globetrotting career and visited places including South America, Japan, America and Europe






Theatre: Following in his parents' footsteps, Felix decided to train at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin between 2015 and 2019, before finding employment as a member of the ensemble at the Burgtheater in Vienna

Felix was quick to throw himself into his first leading movie role and said he found the adjustment of shooting individual scenes in a non-linear timeline, rather than filming chronology in theatre, difficult to adjust to, but quickly found his feet.
He did not shy away from heavily preparing for his leading role as soldier Paul, admitting he uniquely wrote a character story using an Excel spreadsheet and did a lot of physical preparation before the gruelling 46-day filming.
'I'm a logical guy, pretty rational, and then I thought, 'why don't I just go all in?', I found a way to basically write a character story, using an Excel spreadsheet,' he explained.
He dedicatedly gave each scene different categories and numbers so he knew what scenes he was shooting when as he described his intricate system.





Leading star: Felix's newcomer status helped him to secure the esteemed role, with director Edward Berger admitting that they wanted to find an actor who wasn't yet 'burdened' or 'associated' with any other roles

He was also trained in the use of weapons and read an online archive with more than 2,000 letters from First World War soldiers to get a sense of what they shared and didn't share of their harrowing experiences on the frontlines.
Felix admitted he became very emotional reading the censored letters from soldiers to their loved ones and diving into the atrocities of World War One, saying he leant on his friends for support at the time.
After his intense preparation, shooting then took place over 46 days and saw the cast filming in the mud and cold as they replicated the gruelling conditions of the Western Front.
He said their costumes and equipment weighed a staggering 45kg and they would have to run for around 12-14 hours each day with the heavy weight attached to them, with only a few minutes to rest each day.




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And his preparation clearly paid off as All Quiet on the Western Front already has awards season buzz surrounding it, and is being considered a Oscar candidate for the 2023 Academy Awards after being put forward as Germany's international submission.
Critics and viewers alike have already raved over Felix's heart-wrenching leading performance in the poignant film, which has been dubbed 'one of the greatest war movies ever made', as the actor has proved his talent on screen as well as on stage.