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.
August (1996 film) ("thank you very much"), "cariad" (a term of endearment, meaning "love"), and "iechyd da" ("cheers"). August (1996 film) August is a 1996 British drama film directed by and starring Anthony Hopkins as Ieuan (IPA:j/əɨ/a/n) Davies, and featuring Rhys Ifans in a small role in one of his earliest films, as Griffiths. It is an adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya", with the character Ieuan Davies taking over the title role from the play. The film was Hopkins's first feature film with a full cast (he had previously directed the one-man-performance of "Dylan Thomas: Return Journey" in 1990). It would be over