The English Patient is the original soundtrack

Soundtrack

A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...

, on the Fantasy Records

Fantasy Records

Fantasy Records is a United States-based record label that was founded by Max and Sol Weiss in 1949 in San Francisco, California. They had previously operated a record-pressing plant called Circle Record Company before forming the Fantasy label...

 label, of the 1996

1996 in film

Major releases this year included Scream, Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maguire and a version of Evita starring Madonna.-Events:...

 Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 The English Patient

The English Patient

The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje. The story deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned English accented Hungarian man, his Canadian nurse, a Canadian-Italian thief, and an Indian sapper in the British Army as they live out...

 starring Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes is an English actor and film director. He has appeared in such films as The English Patient, In Bruges, The Constant Gardener, Strange Days, The Duchess and Schindler's List....

, Kristin Scott Thomas

Kristin Scott Thomas

Kristin A. Scott Thomas, OBE is an English actress who has also acquired French nationality. She gained international recognition in the 1990s for her roles in Bitter Moon, Four Weddings and a Funeral and The English Patient....

, Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe is an American film, stage, and voice actor, and a founding member of the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group...

, Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche is a French actress, artist and dancer. She has appeared in more than 40 feature films, been recipient of numerous international accolades, is a published author and has appeared on stage across the world. Coming from an artistic background, she began taking acting lessons during...

 (who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...

 for her role as "Hana" in this film) and Colin Firth

Colin Firth

SirColin Andrew Firth, CBE is a British film, television, and theatre actor. Firth gained wide public attention in the 1990s for his portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice...

. The original score

Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...

 and song

Song

In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...

s were composed by Gabriel Yared

Gabriel Yared

Gabriel Yared is a Lebanese composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema.Born in Beirut, Lebanon, his work in France included the scores for Betty Blue and Camille Claudel. He later began working on English language films, particularly those directed by Anthony Minghella...

.

The album won the four major soundtrack awards: the Academy Award

Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.-Superlatives:...

 (Best Dramatic Score), the Golden Globe

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score is one of several categories presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association , an organization of journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside North America, since its institution in 1947...

 (Best Original Score), the BAFTA Award (Best Film Music) and the Grammy Award

Grammy Award

A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

 (Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television).

Track listing

1. The English Patient 3:30
2. A Retreat 1:21
3. Rupert Bear 1:22
4. What Else Do You Love? 1:00
5. Why Picton? 1:04
6. Cheek To Cheek 3:15
7. Kip's Lights 1:24
8. Hana's Curse 2:06
9. I'll Always Go Back To That Church 1:48
10. Black Nights 1:53
11. Swoon, I'll Catch You 1:47
12. Am I K. In Your Book? 0:55
13. Let Me Come In! 2:35
14. Wang Wang Blues 2:47
15. Conventino Di Sant' Anna 9:09
16. Herodotus 1:04
17. Szerelem, Szerelem 4:32
18. Ask Your Saint Who He's Killed 1:04
19. One O'Clock Jump 3:10
20. I'll Be Back 4:00
21. Let Me Tell You About Winds 0:55
22. Read Me To Sleep 4:56
23. The Cave Of Swimmers 1:55
24. Where Or When 2:14
25. Aria From The Goldberg Variations 2:57
26. Cheek To Cheek 3:42
27. As Far As Florence 5:16
28. En Csak Azt Csod·lom (Lullaby For Katerine) 1:07
    • Total Time: 72:48

The English Patient is the original soundtrack

Soundtrack

A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...

, on the Fantasy Records

Fantasy Records

Fantasy Records is a United States-based record label that was founded by Max and Sol Weiss in 1949 in San Francisco, California. They had previously operated a record-pressing plant called Circle Record Company before forming the Fantasy label...

 label, of the 1996

1996 in film

Major releases this year included Scream, Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maguire and a version of Evita starring Madonna.-Events:...

 Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 The English Patient

The English Patient

The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje. The story deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned English accented Hungarian man, his Canadian nurse, a Canadian-Italian thief, and an Indian sapper in the British Army as they live out...

 starring Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes is an English actor and film director. He has appeared in such films as The English Patient, In Bruges, The Constant Gardener, Strange Days, The Duchess and Schindler's List....

, Kristin Scott Thomas

Kristin Scott Thomas

Kristin A. Scott Thomas, OBE is an English actress who has also acquired French nationality. She gained international recognition in the 1990s for her roles in Bitter Moon, Four Weddings and a Funeral and The English Patient....

, Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe is an American film, stage, and voice actor, and a founding member of the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group...

, Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche is a French actress, artist and dancer. She has appeared in more than 40 feature films, been recipient of numerous international accolades, is a published author and has appeared on stage across the world. Coming from an artistic background, she began taking acting lessons during...

 (who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...

 for her role as "Hana" in this film) and Colin Firth

Colin Firth

SirColin Andrew Firth, CBE is a British film, television, and theatre actor. Firth gained wide public attention in the 1990s for his portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice...

. The original score

Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...

 and song

Song

In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...

s were composed by Gabriel Yared

Gabriel Yared

Gabriel Yared is a Lebanese composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema.Born in Beirut, Lebanon, his work in France included the scores for Betty Blue and Camille Claudel. He later began working on English language films, particularly those directed by Anthony Minghella...

.

The album won the four major soundtrack awards: the Academy Award

Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.-Superlatives:...

 (Best Dramatic Score), the Golden Globe

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score is one of several categories presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association , an organization of journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside North America, since its institution in 1947...

 (Best Original Score), the BAFTA Award (Best Film Music) and the Grammy Award

Grammy Award

A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

 (Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television).

Track listing

1. The English Patient 3:30
2. A Retreat 1:21
3. Rupert Bear 1:22
4. What Else Do You Love? 1:00
5. Why Picton? 1:04
6. Cheek To Cheek 3:15
7. Kip's Lights 1:24
8. Hana's Curse 2:06
9. I'll Always Go Back To That Church 1:48
10. Black Nights 1:53
11. Swoon, I'll Catch You 1:47
12. Am I K. In Your Book? 0:55
13. Let Me Come In! 2:35
14. Wang Wang Blues 2:47
15. Conventino Di Sant' Anna 9:09
16. Herodotus 1:04
17. Szerelem, Szerelem 4:32
18. Ask Your Saint Who He's Killed 1:04
19. One O'Clock Jump 3:10
20. I'll Be Back 4:00
21. Let Me Tell You About Winds 0:55
22. Read Me To Sleep 4:56
23. The Cave Of Swimmers 1:55
24. Where Or When 2:14
25. Aria From The Goldberg Variations 2:57
26. Cheek To Cheek 3:42
27. As Far As Florence 5:16
28. En Csak Azt Csod·lom (Lullaby For Katerine) 1:07
    • Total Time: 72:48

The English Patient is the original soundtrack

Soundtrack

A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...

, on the Fantasy Records

Fantasy Records

Fantasy Records is a United States-based record label that was founded by Max and Sol Weiss in 1949 in San Francisco, California. They had previously operated a record-pressing plant called Circle Record Company before forming the Fantasy label...

 label, of the 1996

1996 in film

Major releases this year included Scream, Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maguire and a version of Evita starring Madonna.-Events:...

 Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 The English Patient

The English Patient

The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje. The story deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned English accented Hungarian man, his Canadian nurse, a Canadian-Italian thief, and an Indian sapper in the British Army as they live out...

 starring Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes is an English actor and film director. He has appeared in such films as The English Patient, In Bruges, The Constant Gardener, Strange Days, The Duchess and Schindler's List....

, Kristin Scott Thomas

Kristin Scott Thomas

Kristin A. Scott Thomas, OBE is an English actress who has also acquired French nationality. She gained international recognition in the 1990s for her roles in Bitter Moon, Four Weddings and a Funeral and The English Patient....

, Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe is an American film, stage, and voice actor, and a founding member of the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group...

, Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche is a French actress, artist and dancer. She has appeared in more than 40 feature films, been recipient of numerous international accolades, is a published author and has appeared on stage across the world. Coming from an artistic background, she began taking acting lessons during...

 (who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...

 for her role as "Hana" in this film) and Colin Firth

Colin Firth

SirColin Andrew Firth, CBE is a British film, television, and theatre actor. Firth gained wide public attention in the 1990s for his portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice...

. The original score

Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...

 and song

Song

In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...

s were composed by Gabriel Yared

Gabriel Yared

Gabriel Yared is a Lebanese composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema.Born in Beirut, Lebanon, his work in France included the scores for Betty Blue and Camille Claudel. He later began working on English language films, particularly those directed by Anthony Minghella...

.

The album won the four major soundtrack awards: the Academy Award

Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.-Superlatives:...

 (Best Dramatic Score), the Golden Globe

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score is one of several categories presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association , an organization of journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside North America, since its institution in 1947...

 (Best Original Score), the BAFTA Award (Best Film Music) and the Grammy Award

Grammy Award

A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

 (Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television).

Track listing

1. The English Patient 3:30
2. A Retreat 1:21
3. Rupert Bear 1:22
4. What Else Do You Love? 1:00
5. Why Picton? 1:04
6. Cheek To Cheek 3:15
7. Kip's Lights 1:24
8. Hana's Curse 2:06
9. I'll Always Go Back To That Church 1:48
10. Black Nights 1:53
11. Swoon, I'll Catch You 1:47
12. Am I K. In Your Book? 0:55
13. Let Me Come In! 2:35
14. Wang Wang Blues 2:47
15. Conventino Di Sant' Anna 9:09
16. Herodotus 1:04
17. Szerelem, Szerelem 4:32
18. Ask Your Saint Who He's Killed 1:04
19. One O'Clock Jump 3:10
20. I'll Be Back 4:00
21. Let Me Tell You About Winds 0:55
22. Read Me To Sleep 4:56
23. The Cave Of Swimmers 1:55
24. Where Or When 2:14
25. Aria From The Goldberg Variations 2:57
26. Cheek To Cheek 3:42
27. As Far As Florence 5:16
28. En Csak Azt Csod·lom (Lullaby For Katerine) 1:07
    • Total Time: 72:48

Big Three Score Awards Film score A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...  (1996 1996 in film Major releases this year included Scream, Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maguire and a version of Evita starring Madonna.-Events:... )
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