The English Patient

Running time: 160 min. Some of these include:. Production:. There are necessarily differences, some of which are more prominent than others. It won the Academy Award, the Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Award for best picture. Both the movie and book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone were released as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the U.S., a name change some fans consider unnecessary or even insulting to those familiar with the philosopher's stone legend. The motion picture also received much critical acclaim and was a major award winner as well as a box office success.
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A good factual overview is provided in the 2002 Saul Kelly book, The Hunt for Zerzura: The Lost Oases and the Desert War. Harry is rescued from his horrible Muggle relatives and takes his place at Hogwarts, where he becomes friends with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. In the film, the character of Count de Almásy, played by Ralph Fiennes, is heavily fictionalised. Harry Potter, a seemingly-ordinary eleven-year-old boy, is actually a wizard and survivor of Lord Voldemort's attempted rise to power. Ondaatje worked closely with the filmmakers and has stated that he is happy with the film as an adaptation. Taglines: The Magic Begins Soon and Let The Magic Begin. In 1996, Ondaatje's novel was made into a film by Anthony Minghella. Rowling insisted that the entire cast be British, in keeping with the cultural integrity of the book and the movie; she also approved the screenplay, written by Steve Kloves.

It has been translated into more than 30 languages. K. In 1992, the novel won the Canadian Governor General's Award and in 1993, the Booker Prize for fiction. J. One of the main characters, the burned man, is Count László de Almásy, a famous Hungarian researcher of the Sahara Desert, disciple of Herodotus, and discoverer of the Ain Doua prehistoric rock painting sites in the western Jebel Uweinat mountain. The film made in excess of $950 million at the worldwide box office (third only to Titanic and The Return of the King) and received three Oscar nominations. The English Patient is in part a sequel to Ondaatje's earlier work In the Skin of a Lion; the characters of Hana and Caravaggio reappear from the earlier novel. As an example of a problem which has already occurred, film trickery was needed to compensate for Tom Felton, who plays Draco Malfoy, due to a sudden growth spurt.

The English Patient is a novel by Michael Ondaatje which deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned man, his Canadian nurse, a thief, and a British Army sapper as they live out the end of World War II in an Italian monastery. The second and third books have also been released on film, the fourth is planned for release in 2005, and the rest of the series will follow; it is planned that the rest of them will use the same main cast for continuity purposes, although it is commonly speculated that the child actors and actresses will eventually grow too old for their respective parts, since the movies (and more particularly recent books) have been taking over a year each. Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Juliette Binoche. The movie was made at Leavesden Film Studios and released in 2001. César Award for Best Foreign Film. An agent of Warner Brothers bought the movie rights to the film at a relatively low price soon before the book's incredible success. Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay - Anthony Minghella. Rowling.

Academy Award for Best Actress - Kristin Scott Thomas. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (also known as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States) was a critically acclaimed and highly successful film released in 2001, based on the fantasy novel of the same name by best-selling author J.K. Academy Award for Best Actor - Ralph Fiennes. The film was spoofed by Brad Neely with his soundtrack Wizard People, Dear Reader. Golden Globe Award for Best Score - Gabriel Yared. Since Harry actually sees Quirrell die, rather than passing out before the professor's death, this could possibly lead to a plot contradiction in the fifth movie. Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama. For example, Quirrell gets cremated in the places that Harry touches him, rather than simply being burned, and Harry has a moment of hesitation, where it looks as though he might actually give the stone to Voldemort.

Berlin Film Festival: Silver Bear for Best Actress - Juliette Binoche. The climax is far more dramatic than in the book. BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress - Juliette Binoche. Quirrell's and Snape's protections for the Philosopher's Stone are omitted. BAFTA Award for Best Picture. Ron joins Harry, Hermione, and Draco in detention in the Forbidden Forest, rather than Neville. Academy Award for Best Art Direction - Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan. Harry, Ron and Hermione find Fluffy in a different way: rather than being tricked by Malfoy into going out of their dormitory at night and running from Argus Filch, they get lost when the staircase they're on changes direction.

Academy Award for Best Cinematography - John Seale. Harry doesn't meet Malfoy until after they get to Hogwarts. Academy Award for Costume Design - Ann Roth. Harry doesn't find out that Lord Voldemort killed his parents until after he buys his wand. Academy Award for Original Music Score - Gabriel Yared. A scene with Peeves was actually filmed but left out of the theatrical cut: it is rumoured that a forthcoming extended "director's cut" will restore his scene. Academy Award for Film Editing - Walter Murch. The characters of Peeves the Poltergeist, Professor Binns and Pansy Parkinson are omitted entirely.