Cold Mountain (film) by bluegrass singer Alison Krauss. Gabriel Yared's Oscar-nominated score is represented by four tracks amounting to approximately fifteen minutes of music. The film was nominated for more than seventy awards, including seven Academy Award nominations. Renée Zellweger won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in the film. In addition, the film was nominated for the following Academy Awards: Cold Mountain (film) Cold Mountain is a 2003 epic war film written and directed by Anthony Minghella. The film is based on the bestselling 1997 novel of the same name by Charles Frazier. It stars
Andy Ripley Rugby Book' category of the 2008 British Sports Book Awards for his memoir "Ripley's World". Ripley was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2005, and died on 17 June 2010. Andy Ripley Andrew George Ripley OBE (1 December 1947 – 17 June 2010) was an English rugby union international, who represented England from 1972 to 1976, and the Lions on their unbeaten 1974 tour of South Africa. Ripley was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, and educated at the University of East Anglia, London School of Economics (M.Sc.) and Hughes Hall, Cambridge (MPhil). His lifelong career was as a chartered accountant. Ripley played