The English Patient Madhumalati Adhikari has critiqued the treatment of World War II and its effects on the characters of the novel. The novel won the 1992 Booker Prize, athe 1992 Governor General's Award, and the 2018 Golden Man Booker award. The book was adapted into a 1996 film by Anthony Minghella, starring Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Willem Dafoe, Colin Firth, and Juliette Binoche. The film received nine Academy Awards—including Best Picture and Director—at the 69th Academy Awards. The English Patient The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje. The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian
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