The English Patient (1996 Best Picture)

The tenth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1996 features the Best Picture Oscar winner, The English Patient. Written and directed by Anthony Minghella (based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje) and starring Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliette Binoche and Willem Dafoe, The English Patient was nominated for 12 Oscars and won nine, including Best Picture.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-english-patient-1996), Janet Maslin in the New York Times (https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/packages/html/movies/bestpictures/english-re.html), and Todd McCarthy in Variety (https://variety.com/1996/film/reviews/the-english-patient-1200447716/).

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1996 installment featuring our producer David Rosen’s personal pick, Peter Jackson’s The Frighteners.