The English Patient Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
The English Patient is a novel by Michael Ondaatje which deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned man, his Canadian nurse, a thief, and a British Army sapper as they live out the end of World War II in an Italian monastery.In 1992, the acclaimed novel won the Canadian Governor General's Award and in 1993, the Booker Prize for fiction. It has been translated into more than 30 languages.
One of the main characters, the burned man, is Count László de Almásy, a famous Hungarian researcher of the Sahara Desert and an explorer of the Ain Doua prehistoric rock painting sites in the western Jebel Uweinat mountain. In the 1996 film, the character of Count de Almásy, played by Ralph Fiennes, is heavily fictionalised. A good factual overview is provided in the 2002 Saul Kelly book, The Hunt for Zerzura: The Lost Oases and the Desert War.
The motion picture also received much critical acclaim and was a major award winner as well as a box office success. It won the Academy Award, the Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Award for best picture.
Production:
- Director: Anthony Minghella
- Producer: Saul Zaentz
- Original story: Michael Ondaatje from his novel
- Screenplay adaption: Anthony Minghella
- Cinematography: John Seale
- Music: Gabriel Yared, Johann Sebastian Bach, Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers
Primary cast:
- Ralph Fiennes - Count Laszlo de Almásy
- Kristin Scott Thomas - Katharine Clifton
- Juliette Binoche - Hana
- Willem Dafoe - David Caravaggio
- Naveen Andrews - Lt. Kip Singh
- Colin Firth - Geoffrey Clifton
- Kevin Whately - Sgt. Hardy
- Academy Award for Best Picture
- Academy Award for Directing - Anthony Minghella
- Academy Award for Sound - Walter Murch, Mark Berger, David Parker, Chris Newman
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - Juliette Binoche
- Academy Award for Film Editing - Walter Murch
- Academy Award for Original Music Score - Gabriel Yared
- Academy Award for Costume Design - Ann Roth
- Academy Award for Best Cinematography - John Seale
- Academy Award for Best Art Direction - Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
- BAFTA Award for Best Picture
- BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress - Juliette Binoche
- Berlin Film Festival: Silver Bear for Best Actress - Juliette Binoche
- Golden Globe Award for Best Film-Drama
- Golden Globe Award for Best Score - Gabriel Yared
- Academy Award for Best Actor - Ralph Fiennes
- Academy Award for Best Actress - Kristin Scott Thomas
- Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay - Anthony Minghella
- César Award for Best Foreign Film
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Juliette Binoche
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