The English Patient Madhumalati Adhikari has critiqued the treatment of World War II and its effects on the characters of the novel. The novel won the 1992 Booker Prize, athe 1992 Governor General's Award, and the 2018 Golden Man Booker award. The book was adapted into a 1996 film by Anthony Minghella, starring Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Willem Dafoe, Colin Firth, and Juliette Binoche. The film received nine Academy Awards—including Best Picture and Director—at the 69th Academy Awards. The English Patient The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje. The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian
Colin Vaines Production in 2007, where he became Executive Producer of "The Young Victoria", "The Rum Diary", starring Johnny Depp, and "London Boulevard", the directing debut of Oscar-winning writer William Monahan, starring Keira Knightley and Colin Farrell. Returning to freelance production in 2010, he produced "Coriolanus", which marked the directing debut of its star, Ralph Fiennes, twenty years after Vaines and Fiennes first worked together on "A Dangerous Man". The film also stars Gerard Butler and Vanessa Redgrave, who won best supporting actress at the 2011 British Independent Film Awards for her role in the movie. It received its European premiere at