Felix Kammerer thrilled after All Quiet On The Western Front received 14 BAFTA ... trends now

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 Bäumer, reacted to the amazing news on Instagram.

Felix penned: 'Thank you BAFTA!!! This is amazing! Congratulations to the best director @eeedwardberger, the most wonderful @lisychristl29a and amazing @h.merker and of course to my partner in crime @albrecht.schuch and the whole fanatastic team of this movie. See you in London.'

The war film now stands in joint first place with Mandarin action adventure Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, which earned the same amount of nominations back in 2001.

Netflix's All Quiet On The Western Front is a 2022 epic anti-war film based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque. 

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.

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 - who are now divorced, on September 19, 1995. 

His mother Angelika, 56, is a mezzo-soprano and has performed in a string of operas across Europe, North America and the Far East and is internationally recognised as one of the most foremost interpreters of Mozart.

She has performed at Covent Garden's Royal Opera House in Pelléas et Mélisande, Sophie's Choice and Hänsel und Gretel and Octavian, while she has also graced the stage at Wiener Staatsoper opera house in Vienna in Dorabella Cosi fan tutte and Clairon Capriccio.

In 2007, Angelika was awarded the title of Kammersängerin for her outstanding contributions to the Vienna State Opera and just two years later, she became an honorary member of London's Royal Academy of Music, according to her biography .

The recitalist has also shown off her vocal talents and won numerous awards, including a Grammy, for her recordings with the Sony Masterworks label.

And Angelika shows no signs of slowing down in her incredible career as she is returning to Opernhaus Zürich to perform songs by Schubert, Schumann and Brahms, after her success as Mrs. Lovett in Stephan Sondheim's Sweeney Todd.

Angelika and her younger sister Lissi were raised by her businessman father Walter Kirchschlager, her mother and grandmother in the Lehen district of Salzburg, Austria, before moving aged 12.

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 Grün von neuem Euch erglänzt.

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.'

Following in his parents' theatrical footsteps, Felix decided to train at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin between 2015 and 2019, before finding employment as a permanent member of the ensemble at the Burgtheater in Vienna, where he still works.

The talented star quickly made a name for himself in theatre and became a member of the Maresa Hörbiger's Young Ensemble Hörbiger between 2013 and 2015, while he also worked at the Berliner Arbeiter-Theater (BAT) and the Deutsches Theater Berlin during his studies.

After graduating in 2019, he played at the Salzburg Festival at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin before moving on to work at the Burgtheater. He also premiered the Academy Theater in Vienna.

He has received accolades for his roles with his Ö1 radio play Loud Nights being awarded radio play of the month by the German Academy of Performing Arts in September 2020.

This year, his performance in Moskitos at the Akademietheater even earned him a nomination for Best Young Male at the Nestroy Theatre Prize, which honours outstanding achievements at Austrian theatres.

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 Dürer, 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.

His 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.

'We held auditions for three months and saw a few hundred young people, but we always came back to Felix, whom we had seen first,' he told Cineuropa .

'He is an actor at the Burgtheater in Vienna and we wanted someone who was new, who wasn't yet burdened by or associated with other roles.

'That would allow us to portray the innocence of the character in a believable way. Moreover, I especially liked the fact that he has a somewhat old-fashioned face.'

Speaking about how he found out about the role of Paul, Felix said he

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