Scots Oscar winner says award was “a dream come true” as she receives support from back home

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Stirling’s Oscar winner says the support she received from the city has been “incredible” after the film she helped write claimed a much-coveted Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.Lesley Paterson was one of the screen writers for the Netflix war epic All Quiet on the Western Front which was nominated for nine awards.Originally from Stirling, Lesley spent 16 years trying to make the project a reality and she was rewarded when the movie claimed four Oscars at Sunday’s glittering ceremony in Hollywood.In addition to claiming the accolade for Best International Feature Film, All Quiet on the Western Front also scooped the titles for Best Original Score, Best Production Design and Best Cinematography.It narrowly lost out on Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Sound, Best Makeup and Hairstyling and Best Visual Effects.Speaking to the Observer this week Lesley told how just being nominated was “a dream come true”.She said: “Winning the Best International Film was incredible.

Everyone was just going bananas. We knew we had a great shot, but it was so lovely to deliver and to see the trajectory of this film come to fruition.“Being nominated is just crazy.

Totally wild. It’s kind of like a dream come true. Obviously we wanted to win Best Adapted Screenplay and that was bitterly disappointing so we’ve got mixed emotions of being happy but also being disappointed all at the same time.” Click here for more news and sport from the Stirling area.

She continued: “I don’t think any of it has sunk in. It’s just been such a whirlwind and it’s tough to put in to words and now it’s a case of this has opened the door to our career and now we’re ready to jump in and get going.“The support from Stirling has been