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.
The Man Who Loved Women (1983 film) ultimately falls in love with Marianna, his therapist, who must cease seeing him as a patient to indulge their affair. His funeral draws women of all kinds, lining up to pay their last respects. In September 1982 Blake Edwards announced he would make the film with Warren Beatty. Dustin Hoffman had reportedly turned down the lead role. Eventually Beatty dropped out. In December 1982 Burt Reynolds signed to star. Edwards wrote the script with Milton Wexler, his therapist. Wexler and Edwards had analysed scripts for years, including Edwards'. "I said if we could come up with something good and startling