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
Magnus Fiennes at The National Film And Television School, Kingston University and The Architect's Association in the UK. Fiennes has written and produced a number of featured songs including the title song for Paramount's "Addicted to Love" (featuring Neneh Cherry), Madonna's "Next Best Thing" and Scala Pictures music business satire, "Five Seconds to Spare". Fiennes has produced tracks for Working Title's Rowan Atkinson vehicle, "Johnny English", and co-wrote the closing Massive Attack song on their score for the Luc Besson film, "Danny the Dog". As a keyboard player, Fiennes toured extensively with legendary blues guitarist Gary Moore in a line-up with Pink