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 Played God (1932 film) engagements in Los Angeles and New York on February 9 and 10 respectively, the film went into general release on February 20. It was modestly successful at the box office and made a profit for the studio. It became one of Arliss' most popular films. In England, censors objected to the picture's title and it was released as "The Silent Voice". According to Warner Bros records the film earned $536,000 domestically and $299,000 foreign. It was the studio's most popular picture of 1931-32. Mordaunt Hall of "The New York Times" opined, "It is a neatly conceived story as it comes