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
Oscar and Lucinda (film) Oscar and Lucinda (film) Oscar and Lucinda is a 1997 British-Australian romantic drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Cate Blanchett, Ralph Fiennes, Ciarán Hinds and Tom Wilkinson. It is based on the 1988 Booker Prize-winning novel "Oscar and Lucinda" by Peter Carey. In March 1998, the film was nominated at the Academy Awards for the Best Costume Design. As a child living in Australia, Lucinda Leplastrier is given a Prince Rupert's Drop which sparks a lifelong obsession with glass. Lucinda's parents die and she is left a wealthy heiress after her guardians sell off the vast farmland that