The English Patient (soundtrack) The English Patient (soundtrack) The English Patient is the original soundtrack, on the Fantasy Records label, of the 1996 Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning film "The English Patient" starring Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Willem Dafoe, Juliette Binoche (who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as "Hana" in this film) and Colin Firth. The original score and songs were composed by Gabriel Yared. The album won the four major soundtrack awards: the Academy Award (Best Dramatic Score), the Golden Globe (Best Original Score), the BAFTA Award (Best Film Music) and the Grammy Award (Best Instrumental
The Girl Who Played with Fire (film) Nyqvist "could not be better" in their roles, the film needed to acknowledge the middle ground between the righteous heroes and the evil villains in order to work better as cinematic pulp fiction. Peter Travers of "Rolling Stone" gives the film 3 out of 4 stars. Rick Groen of "The Globe and Mail" describes the film as "Tepid and downright confusing" for those who have not read the books, although he suspects there are few who have not; he notes that the plot, "already thick on the page, often seems impenetrable here." Although he concedes the plot generates some suspense,