"The English Patient (film) The English Patient is a 1996 British-American romantic war drama film directed by Anthony Minghella from his own script based on the novel of the same name by Michael Ondaatje and produced by Saul Zaentz. The film tells the story of Count László de Almásy, who is burned from a plane crash and tells his past story in flashbacks involving a romantic affair, while he is tended by a nurse. The film was released to critical acclaim, and received 12 nominations at the 69th Academy Awards, winning nine, including Best Picture, Best Director for Minghella, and"
"John Seale John Clement Seale A.C.S. A.S.C. (born 5 October 1942) is a retired Australian cinematographer. He won an Oscar for his work in the 1996 film ""The English Patient,"" in addition to a BAFTA and Satellite Award. He is a member of both the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) and the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC). Seale was born in Warwick, Queensland, Australia, to Marjorie Lyndon (née Pool) and Eric Clement Seale. He received Oscar nominations for his work on ""Witness"", ""Rain Man"", and ""Cold Mountain"", and won for ""The English Patient"". Seale directed one film, ""Till There Was You"","
"Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television). The English Patient (soundtrack) The English Patient is the original soundtrack, on the Fantasy Records label, of the 1996 Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning film ""The English Patient"" starring Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Willem Dafoe, Juliette Binoche (who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as ""Hana"" in this film) and Colin Firth. The original score and songs were composed by Gabriel Yared. The album won the four major soundtrack awards: the Academy Award (Best Dramatic Score), the Golden Globe (Best Original Score), the BAFTA Award"
"69th Academy Awards were announced on February 11, 1997, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Arthur Hiller, president of the Academy, and actress Mira Sorvino. ""The English Patient"" received the most nominations with twelve; ""Fargo"" and ""Shine"" came in second with seven apiece. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 24, 1997. Saul Zaentz became the third person to produce three Best Picture winners, having previously produced ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" and ""Amadeus"". He also became the seventh individual to receive an Oscar and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in"
"The English Patient (soundtrack) The English Patient is the original soundtrack, on the Fantasy Records label, of the 1996 Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning film ""The English Patient"" starring Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Willem Dafoe, Juliette Binoche (who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as ""Hana"" in this film) and Colin Firth. The original score and songs were composed by Gabriel Yared. The album won the four major soundtrack awards: the Academy Award (Best Dramatic Score), the Golden Globe (Best Original Score), the BAFTA Award (Best Film Music) and the Grammy Award (Best Instrumental"
"Jude Law, at Western Gardens, Ryde, Isle of Wight. Anthony Minghella Anthony Minghella, (6 January 195418 March 2008) was a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for ""The English Patient"" (1996). In addition, he received three more Academy Award nominations; he was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for both ""The English Patient"" (1996) and ""The Talented Mr. Ripley"" (1999), and was posthumously nominated for Best Picture for ""The Reader"" (2008), as a co-producer. Minghella was"
"Anthony Minghella Anthony Minghella, (6 January 195418 March 2008) was a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for ""The English Patient"" (1996). In addition, he received three more Academy Award nominations; he was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for both ""The English Patient"" (1996) and ""The Talented Mr. Ripley"" (1999), and was posthumously nominated for Best Picture for ""The Reader"" (2008), as a co-producer. Minghella was born in Ryde, on the Isle of Wight, an"
"in 1990 and had last hosted the 65th ceremony held in 1993. Three weeks earlier, in a ceremony held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on March 1, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Helen Hunt. ""The English Patient"" won the most awards of the evening with nine including Best Picture. Other winners included ""Fargo"" with two awards, and """", ""Dear Diary"", ""Emma"", ""Evita"", ""The Ghost and the Darkness"", ""Independence Day"", ""Jerry Maguire"", ""Kolya"", ""The Nutty Professor"", ""Quest"", ""Shine"", ""Sling Blade"", and ""When We Were Kings"" with one. The nominees for the"
"Award for Film Music<br> 1994: ""Backbeat"" – Don Was 1995: ""Braveheart"" – James Horner ‡ 1996: ""The English Patient"" – Gabriel Yared † 1997: ""Romeo + Juliet"" – Nellee Hooper, Craig Armstrong, and Marius de Vries 1998: ""Elizabeth"" – David Hirschfelder ‡ 1999: ""American Beauty"" – Thomas Newman ‡ 2000: ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)"" – Tan Dun † 2001: ""Moulin Rouge!"" – Craig Armstrong and Marius de Vries 2002: ""The Hours"" – Philip Glass ‡ 2003: ""Cold Mountain"" – T Bone Burnett and Gabriel Yared ‡ 2004: ""The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta)"" – Gustavo Santaolalla"
"46th British Academy Film Awards The 46th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1993, honoured the best films of 1992. James Ivory's Howards End won the awards for Best Film and Best Actress (Emma Thompson). Robert Downey Jr. was voted Best Actor for his role in ""Chaplin"". Best Supporting Actor and Actress were Gene Hackman (""Unforgiven"") and Miranda Richardson (""Damage""). Robert Altman won the award for Best Director for directing ""The Player"". ""Howards End"" (Curzon Video) ""Raise the Red Lantern (Da Hong Deng Long Gao Gao Gua)"" ""The Player - Robert Altman"""
"""The English Patient"" (1996) when the production ran into difficulties during filming. Technically an American production, the film won 9 Oscars. ""In film as in society at large, America’s influence has now reached levels and depths previously unimaginable,"" said critic Geoff Brown, referring to the Americanisation of British film culture in the 1990s. He cites as examples Hollywood coverage and the use of language in publications like ""Empire"" magazine, as well as dominance of big-budget American films in multiplexes, but he also notes that this is an industrial matter: ""The Full Monty"" was entirely financed and distributed by one of"
"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 the 1996 film ""The English Patient"", which was highly acclaimed and won him an Oscar for Best Original Score. He composed the scores for all of Minghella's subsequent films and the music for the television series ""The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"", co-created by Minghella and Richard Curtis. Aside from his work with Minghella, Yared scored a number of other films, including ""Betty Blue"" (1986), ""City of Angels"" (1998), ""Message in a Bottle"" (1999), ""Autumn in New York"" (2000), ""The Next Best Thing"" (2000), ""Possession"" (2002), and ""Bon Voyage"" (2003). Cassandra Clare reported in August 2012 that Yared was"
"we the audience are the real winners."" Sims called the episode ""classic Seinfeld, as well, in that it's a plot where very little happens but it's nonetheless very funny."" The English Patient (Seinfeld) ""The English Patient"" is the 151st episode of the NBC sitcom ""Seinfeld"". It was the 17th episode for the eighth season and aired on March 13, 1997. ""The English Patient"", central to Elaine's storyline in this episode, won Best Picture at the 69th Academy Awards, eleven days after this episode aired. At Monk's Café, a beautiful woman, Danielle (Chelsea Noble), mistakes George for her boyfriend Neil, a"
"(11 points) <br> 2. Susan Tyrrell – ""Fat City"" (11 points) <br> 4. Cybill Shepherd – ""The Heartbreak Kid"" (10 points) <br> 5. Harriet Andersson – ""Cries and Whispers"" (9 points) 2. Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière – ""The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie"" (20 points) <br> 3. John Berger and Alain Tanner – ""La Salamandre"" (11 points) <br> 4. Jan Troell and Bengt Forslund – ""The Emigrants"" (9 points) <br> 4. Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo – ""The Godfather"" (9 points) 2. Vilmos Zsigmond – ""Images"" (25 points) <br> 3. Gordon Willis – ""The Godfather"" (22 points) <br>"
"49th British Academy Film Awards The 49th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 23 April 1996, honoured the best films of 1995. Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility won the award for Best Film. ""Sense and Sensibility"" also won awards for Best Actress (Emma Thompson) and Supporting Actress (Kate Winslet). """" of director Michael Radford won the awards for Best Film not in the English Language, Director and Film Music. Nigel Hawthorne was voted Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role in ""The Madness of King George"". The same film was"
"and ""The English Patient"". Dennis Hopper received the Lifetime Achievement Award. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. 3rd Empire Awards The 3rd Empire Awards ceremony, presented by the British film magazine ""Empire"", honored the best films of 1997 and took place in 1998. During the ceremony, ""Empire"" presented Empire Awards in nine categories as well as one honorary award. The awards were sponsored by Stella Artois for the first time. All of the winners this year won one award each. ""The Full Monty"" won the award for Best British Film, while ""Men in Black"" won the award for"
"The English Patient (Seinfeld) ""The English Patient"" is the 151st episode of the NBC sitcom ""Seinfeld"". It was the 17th episode for the eighth season and aired on March 13, 1997. ""The English Patient"", central to Elaine's storyline in this episode, won Best Picture at the 69th Academy Awards, eleven days after this episode aired. At Monk's Café, a beautiful woman, Danielle (Chelsea Noble), mistakes George for her boyfriend Neil, a man who she claims looks just like him, except that George is taller and looks more fit. This intrigues George—he is flattered by Danielle, but he really wants to"
"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. Jim Jarmusch – ""Dead Man"" 1. Eddie Murphy – ""The Nutty Professor""<br> 2. Vincent D'Onofrio – ""The Whole Wide World""<br> 3. Geoffrey Rush – ""Shine"" 1. Emily Watson – ""Breaking the Waves""<br> 2. Brenda Blethyn – ""Secrets & Lies""<br>"
"theater and music. ★ Bold indicates the winner in each category. ★ ""'Anton Yelchin - ""Hearts in Atlantis"" - Warner Bros. ★ (tie) Scarlett Johansson - ""An American Rhapsody"" - Paramount Classics<br> ★ (tie) Emma Watson - ""Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"" - Warner Bros. ★ Jake Thomas - ""A.I. Artificial Intelligence"" - DreamWorks ★ - ""Max Keeble's Big Move"" - Walt Disney ★ James Bentley - ""The Others"" - Miramax ★ Dakota Fanning - ""I Am Sam"" - New Line Cinema ★ Ryan Merriman - ""Dangerous Child"" - Lifetime ★ - ""My Louisiana Sky"" - Showtime ★ Robert"
"few actors to have won all four major motion picture acting awards, receiving Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards throughout his career, including the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in ""Gandhi"" (1982). The actress Parminder Nagra has a prominent role in the US TV series ""ER"", and played the lead role in the successful British film ""Bend It Like Beckham"" (2002). The actor Naveen Andrews plays the role of Sayid Jarrah in the popular US TV series ""Lost"", and also had a prominent role in the award-winning film ""The English Patient"" (1996). The actor"
"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"
"Best Supporting Actress for Juliette Binoche. Ralph Fiennes, playing the titular character, and Kristin Scott Thomas were Oscar-nominated for their performances. The film also won five BAFTA Awards and two Golden Globes. The British Film Institute ranked ""The English Patient"" the 55th greatest British film of the 20th century. In the final days of the Italian Campaign of World War II, Hana, a French-Canadian nurse of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, obtains permission from her unit to move into a bombed-out Italian monastery, to look after a dying, critically burned man who speaks English but cannot remember his name."
"1. Kirsten Dunst – ""Melancholia"" (39)<br> 2. Yoon Jeong-hee – ""Poetry"" (25)<br> 3. Meryl Streep – ""The Iron Lady"" (20) 1. Albert Brooks – ""Drive"" (38)<br> 2. Christopher Plummer – ""Beginners"" (24)<br> 3. Patton Oswalt – ""Young Adult"" (19) 1. Jessica Chastain – ""The Help"", ""Take Shelter"", and ""The Tree of Life"" (30)<br> 2. Jeannie Berlin – ""Margaret"" (19)<br> 3. Shailene Woodley – ""The Descendants"" (17) 1. Asghar Farhadi – ""A Separation"" (39)<br> 2. Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin – ""Moneyball"" (22)<br> 3. Woody Allen – ""Midnight in Paris"" (16) 1. Emmanuel Lubezki – ""The Tree of Life"" (76)<br> 2."
"Crying Game"" (1992) – famous for its shocking twist, ""The Secret Garden"" (1993) – inspired by the walled garden at Great Maytham Hall in Kent, and ""Shadowlands"" (1993) starring Anthony Hopkins. Anthony Minghella's ""The English Patient"" (1996) won nine Academy Awards. BAFTA Award winning films included Danny Boyle's black comedy drama ""Trainspotting"" (1996) featuring heroin addict Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) and his circle of friends in Edinburgh, the 1997 comedy ""The Full Monty"" set in Sheffield, and the biographical drama ""Elizabeth"" (1998). Richard Curtis's 1994 film ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"", starring Hugh Grant in his breakthrough role, set a"
"and on TV. I suspect it finally made more money than any other picture I made."" Intrada Records released an album featuring a 1995 re-recording of the film's score. The re-recording was performed by the Sinfonia of London and conducted by Bruce Broughton. The film won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt), and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Marlon Brando), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture and Best Picture. Brando's nomination was his third consecutive for Best Actor, following 1951's"
"by Stella Artois for the third consecutive year. ""Notting Hill"" won the most awards with three including Best British Film and Best British Director for Roger Michell. Other winners included ""The Matrix"" with two awards including Best Film and ""East Is East"", ""Fight Club"", ""Shakespeare in Love"", ""The Sixth Sense"" and ""The World Is Not Enough"" with one. Kenneth Branagh received the Empire Inspiration Award, Michael Caine received the Lifetime Achievement Award, Industrial Light & Magic received the Contribution to Cinema award and Oliver Stone received the Movie Masterpiece Award for ""JFK"". Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface."
"Rose ""' Joel Coen – ""Fargo"" ""' ""Independence Day"" – David Brenner ""' ""Fargo"" ""' ""Evita"" ""' ""Breaking the Waves"", Denmark ""The English Patient"" – Gabriel Yared ""' ""You Must Love Me"" performed by Madonna – ""Evita"" ""' ""The English Patient"" – Anthony Minghella ""' ""Lone Star"" – John Sayles (TIE) ""' ""The People vs. Larry Flynt"" – Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (TIE) ""' Armin Mueller-Stahl – ""Shine"" ""' Cuba Gooding Jr. – ""Jerry Maguire"" ""' Courtney Love – ""The People vs. Larry Flynt"" ""' Debbie Reynolds – ""Mother"" ""' ""Independence Day"" – Volker Engel and Douglas Smith ""'"
"""Pulp Fiction"", Woody Allen's ""Mighty Aphrodite"", Wes Craven's ""Scream"" and Anthony Minghella's multi-Academy Award-winning ""The English Patient"". Linde served as both co-president and partner of the production company Good Machine and President and founder of Good Machine International, beginning in January 1997. GMI handled the international distribution of films including Ang Lee's ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" (of which Linde was executive producer), Alfonso Cuaron's ""Y Tu Mamá También"" (of which Linde was executive producer). Joel Coen and Ethan Coen's ""The Man Who Wasn't There"", and Todd Field's ""In the Bedroom"". Films distributed by GMI earned six Academy Awards from 22"
"51st British Academy Film Awards The 51st BAFTA Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 19 April 1998, honoured the best in film for 1997. Peter Cattaneo's The Full Monty won the award for Best Film. ""Nil by Mouth"" from director Gary Oldman won the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film. The ceremony was hosted by Rory Bremner ""' Robert Carlyle - ""The Full Monty"" ""' Judi Dench - ""Mrs Brown"" ""' ""The Wings of the Dove"" ""' ""Mrs Brown"" ""' Baz Luhrmann - ""Romeo + Juliet"" ""' ""L.A. Confidential"" ""' ""The Full"
"at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on February 26, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Laura Dern. ""Schindler's List"" won seven awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Steven Spielberg. Other winners included ""Jurassic Park"" and ""The Piano"" with three awards each, ""Philadelphia"" with two awards, and ""The Age of Innocence"", ""Belle Epoque"", ""Defending Our Lives"", ""The Fugitive"", """", ""Mrs. Doubtfire"", ""Schwarzfahrer"" and ""The Wrong Trousers"" with one. The telecast was watched by more than 46 million viewers in the United States. The nominees for the 66th Academy Awards were announced on February"
"an Oscar, with Elizabeth Taylor and Sandy Dennis winning. Burton later said, ""I didn't think I could learn anything about comedy - I'd done all of Shakespeare's. But from him I learned,"" adding, ""He conspires with you to get your best."" However, it was Taylor who chose Nichols to be their director, because, writes biographer David Bret, ""she particularly admired him because he had done a number of ad-hoc jobs to pay for his education after arriving in America as a seven-year-old Jewish refugee."" Producer Ernest Lehman agreed with her choice: ""He was the only one who could handle them,"""
"Stephen Fry for the tenth time in the award's history. The ceremony opened with a number ""Stevie"" by a British rock band Kasabian. ""Boyhood"" won three of its five nominations, including Best Film, Best Director for Richard Linklater, and Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Patricia Arquette. Eddie Redmayne won Best Actor in a Leading Role for ""The Theory of Everything"", Julianne Moore won Best Actress in a Leading Role for ""Still Alice"", and J. K. Simmons won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for ""Whiplash"". ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"" won five of its eleven nominations, the most of"