"all explore the personal nature of war within the context of intense combat. ""The English Patient"" is a 1992 Booker Prize-winning novel by Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje. The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian villa during the Italian Campaign of World War II. The four main characters are: an unrecognisably burned man—the titular patient, presumed to be English; his Canadian Army nurse, a Sikh British Army sapper, and a Canadian thief. The story occurs during the North African Campaign and is about the incremental revelations of the patient's actions prior to his injuries and the emotional"
"two children with his first wife, Canadian artist Kim Ondaatje. His brother Christopher Ondaatje is a philanthropist, businessman and author. Ondaatje's nephew David Ondaatje is a film director and screenwriter, who made the 2009 film ""The Lodger"". Michael Ondaatje Philip Michael Ondaatje, (; born 12 September 1943), is a Sri Lanka-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of multiple literary awards such as the Governor General's Award, the Giller Prize, the Booker Prize, and the Prix Médicis étranger. Ondaatje is also an Officer of the Order of Canada, recognizing him as one of"
"Painters. In 2000 Ondaatje donated £2 million to the UK Labour Party. After many years of success, in which Ondaatje was considered one of Toronto's most aggressive and predatory businessmen, he left the business world in 1995. He moved to Britain and began a career as a philanthropist and adventurer. Travelling through India and Africa, he also became an author, following in the footsteps of his younger brother Michael Ondaatje, a world-renowned novelist. His books describe his travels and adventures. His 2003 book ""Hemingway in Africa"" details his thesis regarding the life and motivations of Ernest Hemingway. Ondaatje was made"
"Michael Ondaatje Philip Michael Ondaatje, (; born 12 September 1943), is a Sri Lanka-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of multiple literary awards such as the Governor General's Award, the Giller Prize, the Booker Prize, and the Prix Médicis étranger. Ondaatje is also an Officer of the Order of Canada, recognizing him as one of Canada's most renowned living authors. Ondaatje's literary career began with his poetry in 1967, publishing ""The Dainty Monsters"", and then in 1970 the critically acclaimed ""."" However, he is more recently recognized for his nationally and internationally"
"Ross was adapting ""Coming Through Slaughter"" for the screen. Coming Through Slaughter Coming Through Slaughter is a novel by Michael Ondaatje, published by House of Anansi in 1976. It was the winner of the 1976 Books in Canada First Novel Award. The novel is a fictionalised version of the life of the New Orleans jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden. It covers the last months of Bolden's sanity in 1907, as his music becomes more radical and his behaviour more erratic. A secondary character in the story is the photographer E. J. Bellocq. Both these historical figures are portrayed in ways that"
"The English Patient The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje. The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian villa during the Italian Campaign of World War II. The four main characters are: an unrecognisably burned man — the eponymous patient, presumed to be English; his Canadian Army nurse, a Sikh British Army sapper, and a Canadian thief. The story occurs during the North African Campaign and centres on the incremental revelations of the patient's actions prior to his injuries, and the emotional effects of these revelations on the other characters. The book won the"
"in this 70mm six-track sound format in 17 theaters, many of which were calibrated by members of the ""Apocalypse"" sound team and featured the same Meyer Sound subwoofers that had been used on the mixing stage. According to sound editor Larry Blake, Murch now believes that these subwoofers were more ""emotionally significant"" to the presentations than were the two discrete surround channels. In 1996, Murch worked on Anthony Minghella's ""The English Patient"", which was based on Michael Ondaatje's novel of the same name. Murch won Oscars both for his sound mixing and for his editing. Murch's editing Oscar was the"
"2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 Gratiaen Prize The Gratiaen Prize is an annual literary prize for the best work of literary writing in English by a resident of Sri Lanka. It was founded in 1992 by the Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje with the money he received as joint-winner of the Booker Prize for his novel ""The English Patient"". The prize is named after Michael Ondaatje's mother, Doris Gratiaen. Administered by a Trust based in Sri Lanka, the Gratiaen Prize accepts printed books and manuscripts in a range of genres including fiction, poetry,"
"Ondaatje for his 1992 novel ""The English Patient"". The judges were (chosen decade in parentheses): The shortlisted works were: The Golden Man Booker The Golden Man Booker was a special one-off prize awarded in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Booker Prize. All of the previous 51 winning titles since the Booker's inception in 1969 were eligible. Five judges read the books from each relevant decade and chose a title which to be pitted against the judges' other choices. The judges' shortlist of five titles was announced on 26 May 2018, with voting also commencing that day. The winner"
"(Ondaatje's 1992 novel) ""The English Patient"". Warlight Warlight is a 2018 novel by Canadian author Michael Ondaatje. In London near the end of World War II, 14-year-old Nathaniel and his sister Rachel are left in the care of an enigmatic figure named The Moth, their parents having moved to Singapore. The Moth affiliates with a motley group of eccentric, mysterious, and in some ways nefarious characters who dominate the children's experience early in the postwar period. In 1945 at the end of the war, Nathaniel's father and mother decide to leave London for a year to go to Singapore, where"
"""The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film"", which won special recognition at the 2003 American Cinema Editors Awards, as well as a Kraszna-Krausz Book Award for best book of the year on the moving image. On 11 July 1988, Ondaatje was made an Officer of the Order of Canada which was later upgraded to grade of companion in 2016, the highest level of the order. In 2005, he was honoured with Sri Lanka Ratna by the former Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga. Sri Lanka Ratna is the highest honour given by the Government of Sri Lanka for"
"Jane Austen's most endearing character, the disastrously self-assured matchmaker Emma Woodhouse. A fine cast, speedy pacing and playful direction make this a solid contender for the Austen sweepstakes."" Emma (1996 theatrical film) Emma is a 1996 period film based on the 1815 novel of the same name by Jane Austen. Written and directed by Douglas McGrath, the film stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Alan Cumming, Toni Collette, Ewan McGregor, and Jeremy Northam. The film describes a year in the life of Emma Woodhouse, a congenial but naïve young woman who thinks of herself as a romantic matchmaker in her small community in"
"title, starring Richard Thomas and Maureen O'Hara. Evans has subsequently written 36 nationally best-selling books, including some for children, with conservative Christian themes and appealing to family values. His 1996 book ""Timepiece"" was made into a television movie featuring Naomi Watts, James Earl Jones, and Ellen Burstyn, as were ""The Locket"" (1998), which starred Vanessa Redgrave; ""A Perfect Day"" (2006), which starred Rob Lowe and Christopher Lloyd; ""The Mistletoe Promise"" (2016), which starred Jaime King and Luke Macfarlane; and ""The Mistletoe Inn"" (2017), which starred Alicia Witt and David Alpay. During the spring of 1997, Evans founded Christmas Box House"
"annually to outstanding Canadian explorers. Christopher Ondaatje Sir Philip Christopher Ondaatje, OC, CBE, Hon. FRSL (; born 22 February 1933) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian-English businessman, philanthropist, adventurer, writer and bob-sledding Olympian for Canada. Ondaatje is the older brother of author Michael Ondaatje and lives either in Chester, Nova Scotia, or the United Kingdom. Born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to a Burgher family of Dutch and Indian origin, Ondaatje went to Blundell's School in the United Kingdom. His name comes from an Indian ancestor called Ondaatchi from Thanjavur, South India. After his alcoholic father lost the family fortune, Ondaatje"
"Anil's Ghost Anil's Ghost is the critically acclaimed fourth novel by Michael Ondaatje. It was first published in 2000 by McClelland and Stewart. ""Anil's Ghost"" follows the life of Anil Tissera, a native Sri Lankan who left to study in Britain and then the United States on a scholarship, during which time she has become a forensic pathologist. She returns to Sri Lanka in the midst of its merciless civil war as part of a Human Rights Investigation by the United Nations. Anil, along with archaeologist Sarath Diyasena, discovers the skeleton of a recently murdered man in an ancient burial"
"Coming Through Slaughter Coming Through Slaughter is a novel by Michael Ondaatje, published by House of Anansi in 1976. It was the winner of the 1976 Books in Canada First Novel Award. The novel is a fictionalised version of the life of the New Orleans jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden. It covers the last months of Bolden's sanity in 1907, as his music becomes more radical and his behaviour more erratic. A secondary character in the story is the photographer E. J. Bellocq. Both these historical figures are portrayed in ways that draw on their actual lives, but which depart from"
"and politics, seeing only the human cost and finding solace in the maternal bond that """"brings a timelessness to brief lives"""". Sarath gives his life to give hope to the cause, """"Would give his life for the truth, if it were of any use"""". Although often considered a Canadian writer, Ondaatje travels back to his homeland in Sri Lanka for the setting of ""Anil's Ghost"". Set during the turbulent period in Sri Lanka from the mid-1980s to early 1990s, the characters in ""Anil's Ghost"" face the everyday struggles of living in a warring nation. During this time period, Sri Lanka"
"Christopher Ondaatje Sir Philip Christopher Ondaatje, OC, CBE, Hon. FRSL (; born 22 February 1933) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian-English businessman, philanthropist, adventurer, writer and bob-sledding Olympian for Canada. Ondaatje is the older brother of author Michael Ondaatje and lives either in Chester, Nova Scotia, or the United Kingdom. Born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to a Burgher family of Dutch and Indian origin, Ondaatje went to Blundell's School in the United Kingdom. His name comes from an Indian ancestor called Ondaatchi from Thanjavur, South India. After his alcoholic father lost the family fortune, Ondaatje had to leave school a"
"Massacre, which won two Indian Academy Awards in 1996. His film ""Playing Away"" (1987, with a screenplay by Caryl Phillips), starring Norman Beaton and other notable actors such as Joseph Marcell, Ram John Holder, Brian Bovell, and Stefan Kalipha (incidentally, Ové's cousin), centres on the residents of the fictional British village of Sneddington, who invite the ""Caribbean Brixton Conquistadors"" (from South London) for a cricket match to commemorate ""African Famine Week"". His 2003 film ""Dream to Change the World"" (edited by Pete Stern) was a documentary about the life and work of the late John La Rose, the Trinidad-born activist,"
"The Evening Star The Evening Star is a 1996 American comedy-drama film and a sequel to Academy Award for Best Picture-winning ""Terms of Endearment"", starring Shirley MacLaine, who reprises the role of Aurora Greenway, for which she won an Oscar for playing in the original film. Based on the novel by Larry McMurtry. The screenplay is by Robert Harling, who also served as director. The story takes place about fifteen years after the original, following the characters from 1988 to 1993. It focuses on Aurora's relationship with her three grandchildren, her late daughter Emma's best friend Patsy and her longtime"
"score of 49, indicating ""mixed or average reviews."" John Williams was nominated for the best original score Academy Award. Minnie Driver was selected as best supporting actress by the London Film Critics Circle. Sleepers Sleepers is a 1996 American legal crime drama film written, produced, and directed by Barry Levinson, and based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's 1995 novel of the same name. The film stars Kevin Bacon, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Minnie Driver and Vittorio Gassman. Lorenzo ""Shakes"" Carcaterra, Tommy Marcano, Michael Sullivan, and John Reilly are childhood friends in Hell's Kitchen in the mid-1960s. The"
"yet cathartic film experience. In 1996, ""Entertainment Weekly"" observed, ""Sydney Pollack's dance-marathon movie has probably aged better than any American film of its time."" The film won one Academy Award and was nominated in eight other categories. The film currently holds the record for being nominated for the most Academy Awards (nine) without receiving a nod for Best Picture. In later years, Turner Classic Movies observed, ""By popularizing the title of McCoy’s novel, [the film] gave American argot a catch-phrase that's as recognizable today as when the movie first caught on."" The title has been imitated in various media for"
"compares Sri Lanka's state of war to the Hundred Years War on pages 42–43: ""It was a Hundred Years' War with modern weaponry, and backers on the sidelines in safe countries, a war sponsored by gun- and drug-runners."" ""Anil's Ghost"" is a recipient of the Governor General's Award for English language fiction, the Giller Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. Anil's Ghost Anil's Ghost is the critically acclaimed fourth novel by Michael Ondaatje. It was first published in 2000 by McClelland and Stewart. ""Anil's Ghost"" follows the life of Anil Tissera, a native Sri Lankan who left to"
"three awards at the 1996 European Film Awards, including Film of the Year, International Film Journalists Award, and European Actress of the Year (Watson). Emily Watson was also nominated for the 1996 Academy Award for Best Actress, the 1996 British Academy of Film and Television Arts award and the National Society of Film Critics prize. Composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek premiered their operatic adaptation of the film on 22 September 2016, at Opera Philadelphia. The work was called ""the most startling and moving new American opera in memory"" by parterre box, with ""Opera News"" proclaiming that it ""stands"
"for the 1987 Ritz Paris Hemingway Award for best novel of the year in English, and winner of the first Canada Reads competition in 2002. ""Coming Through Slaughter"" (1976), is a novel set in New Orleans, Louisiana circa 1900, loosely based on the lives of jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden and photographer E. J. Bellocq. It was the winner of the 1976 Books in Canada First Novel Award. ""Running in the Family"" (1982) is a semi-fictional memoir of his childhood in Ceylon. Ondaatje's novel ""Divisadero"" won the 2007 Governor General's Award. In 2011 Ondaatje worked with Daniel Brooks to create a"
"It was adapted during 1998 into a movie of the same name starring Oprah Winfrey. A ""New York Times"" survey of writers and literary critics ranked it the best work of American fiction from 1981 to 2006. The book's dedication reads ""Sixty Million and more"", referring to the Africans and their descendants who died as a result of the Atlantic slave trade. The book's epigraph is Romans 9:25. The book is the story of Sethe and her youngest daughter Denver after their escape from slavery. Their home in Cincinnati is haunted by a revenant, whom they believe to be the"
"Star"" as ""a completely unconvincing sequel"", awarding it only one-and-a-half stars of a possible four. The Evening Star The Evening Star is a 1996 American comedy-drama film and a sequel to Academy Award for Best Picture-winning ""Terms of Endearment"", starring Shirley MacLaine, who reprises the role of Aurora Greenway, for which she won an Oscar for playing in the original film. Based on the novel by Larry McMurtry. The screenplay is by Robert Harling, who also served as director. The story takes place about fifteen years after the original, following the characters from 1988 to 1993. It focuses on Aurora's"
"into a film of the same name that won the 1986 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The novel consists of a brief prologue and five ""episodes"" dated 1945, 1952, 1956, 1966, and 1981. Twelve-year-old Anton Steenwijk is living with his parents and older brother on the outskirts of Haarlem in January 1945 under Nazi Occupation. One evening they hear shots and discover that Fake Ploeg, a prominent Dutch collaborator, has been shot. They watch as their neighbors, the Kortewegs, a father and his teen-age daughter, move the body from where it fell in front of their house to"
"Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, William Atherton, Richard Gere, and Tom Berenger. The film received mixed reviews, but was a success at the box office, earning $22.5 million (the equivalent of $86.9 million in 2016). It received two Academy Award nominations: Best Supporting Actress (Tuesday Weld) and Best Cinematography (by William A. Fraker). Rossner herself ""detested"" the film, but did praise the performance of Diane Keaton. In 2012, the novel was adapted as ""Goodbar"", a ""staged concept album"" by the band Bambi and the performing arts group Waterwell. It was presented at The Public Theater in New York as part of"
"read her accounts of her Oscar-nominated performances as the taut, sexy, neurotic femmes fatales of ""Bonnie and Clyde"", ""Chinatown"", and ""Network"" is to learn from an expert about the instincts, collaborations, and compromises that go into great film acting"". The following year, Dunaway was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and starred in the family comedy ""Dunston Checks In"", the crime thriller ""The Chamber"", which reunited her with her ""Bonnie and Clyde"" co-star Gene Hackman, and the directorial debut of actor Kevin Spacey, ""Albino Alligator"". Also in 1996, Dunaway returned to the stage, playing famed opera singer"
"theater and music. ★ Bold indicates the winner in each category. ★ Jamie Bell - ""Undertow"" - MGM/UA ★ Emmy Rossum - ""The Phantom of the Opera"" - Warner Bros. ★ Devon Alan - ""Undertow"" - MGM/UA ★ Kallie Flynn Childress - ""Sleepover"" - MGM ★ - ""Finding Neverland"" - Miramax ★ Raquel Castro - ""Jersey Girl"" - Miramax ★ ""Finding Neverland"" - Miramax ★ - ""In Oranje"" (Netherlands) ★ - """" - Voyager Films ★ Cody Arens - """" - CBS ★ Danielle Panabaker - ""Searching for David's Heart"" - ABC Family ★ - ""Lives of the Saints"" -"
"and ""Dead Man""<br> 2. Chris Menges – ""Michael Collins""<br> 3. John Seale – ""The English Patient"" 1. La Cérémonie<br> 2. ""Lamerica""<br> 3. ""Chungking Express"" (""Chung Hing sam lam"") 1. When We Were Kings<br> 2. ""Anne Frank Remembered""<br> 3. """" 1996 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 31st National Society of Film Critics Awards, given by the National Society of Film Critics on January 5, 1997, honored the best in film for 1996. 1. Breaking the Waves<br> 2. ""Secrets & Lies""<br> 3. ""Dead Man"" 1. Lars von Trier – ""Breaking the Waves""<br> 2. Mike Leigh – ""Secrets & Lies""<br> 3."
"was published in 1959. This was to form the basis of Follett's ""The Key to Rebecca"", Eppler being the inspiration behind the character Alex Wolff, and he spent a year writing it, more than the time he took to write his previous novels ""Eye of the Needle"" and ""Triple"". This true story was also later to form the basis behind Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning 1992 novel ""The English Patient"" and the 1996 Academy Award-winning film of the same name starring Ralph Fiennes. Len Deighton's novel ""City of Gold"" is also laid against much of the same background. Many plot elements"