The English Patient (film) Best Supporting Actress for Juliette Binoche. Ralph Fiennes, playing the titular character, and Kristin Scott Thomas were Oscar-nominated for their performances. The film also won five BAFTA Awards and two Golden Globes. The British Film Institute ranked "The English Patient" the 55th greatest British film of the 20th century. In the final days of the Italian Campaign of World War II, Hana, a French-Canadian nurse of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, obtains permission from her unit to move into a bombed-out Italian monastery, to look after a dying, critically burned man who speaks English but cannot remember his name.
Loretta Minghella a state school in Newport, Isle of Wight. She studied law at Clare College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1984. She continued her studies at the College of Law. From 1985 to 1987, Minghella was an articled clerk at Kingsley Napley. She was admitted as a solicitor in 1987 and continued to work at Kingsley Napley. From 1989 to 1990, she was a legal advisor to the Department of Trade and Industry. From 1990 to 1993, having moved into financial regulation, Minghella was an assistant director of the Securities and Investments Board (SIB). From 1993 to