The English Patient

The English Patient is a 1996 epic romantic war drama written and directed by Anthony Minghella from Michael Ondaatje's 1992 novel of the same name, starring Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas alongside Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe and Colin Firth. Its central figure, a man burned beyond recognition, recalls in flashback a wartime love affair, in a story presented as a fictionalized account of the real explorer Laszlo Almasy. Released by Miramax Films, the film won nine Academy Awards at the 69th ceremony, including Best Picture, Best Director for Minghella and Best Supporting Actress for Binoche, and the British Film Institute ranks it among the fifty five greatest British films of the twentieth century.