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
Touching the Void (film) Have Won An Oscar", along with Ingrid Bergman (for "Casablanca"), Anthony Perkins (for "Psycho"), Ralph Fiennes (for "Schindler's List") and Jeff Bridges (for "The Big Lebowski"). The film was released in theaters on 23 January 2004 and grossed $96,973 in the opening weekend. It went on to gross $4,593,598 in America and $9,292,204 from foreign markets for a worldwide total of $13,885,802 after 20 weeks. Original music for the film was scored by Alex Heffes. The climbers reach the summit to the climax of Thomas Tallis's "Spem in alium". During one of Simpson's many deliriums, he experiences a very strong