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.
Title role not be fictional, such as Erin Brockovich in the film of the same name or Thomas More in the play "A Man for All Seasons" by Robert Bolt. The title character need not be named in the title, but may be referred to by some other word or phrase, such as Bilbo Baggins in "The Hobbit" or Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland". A title character may only be indirectly "described" in the title, as in "An Ideal Husband" by Oscar Wilde, where the 'ideal husband' (the title role) is the apparently perfect Sir Robert Chiltern. The title