Gabriel Yared 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
Kathryn Bigelow Festival in May 2009, and theatrically released in the US in June 2009. It qualified for the 2010 Oscars as it did not premiere in an Oscar-qualifying run in Los Angeles until mid-2009. Set in post-invasion Iraq, the film received "universal acclaim" (according to Metacritic) and a 97% "fresh" rating from the critics aggregated by Rotten Tomatoes. The film stars Jeremy Renner, Brian Geraghty and Anthony Mackie, with cameos by Guy Pearce, David Morse and Ralph Fiennes. She won the Directors Guild of America award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures (becoming the first woman to win the award)