The English Patient (film) 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.
Dominic Minghella Hannah Minghella his niece; both of whom work in movies. Dominic's son, Dante, appeared on the 2006 Channel 4 programme "Child Genius". He read PPE at Merton College, Oxford. His sister Edana Minghella co-wrote 4 episodes of Doc Martin. As a child, Minghella starred in the first film his brother Anthony directed, "A Little Like Drowning". Dominic Minghella was producer of the 2012 adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel, "The Scapegoat", directed by Charles Sturridge and starring Matthew Rhys. Minghella was lead writer and executive producer of the BBC One series "Robin Hood" for the first two seasons, overseeing 26