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...awards, before going on to become a TV script editor and writer. After his feature debut, the 1990 comedy Truly, Madly, Deeply, starring Alan Rickman and Juliet Stevenson, there was the low-key comedy Mr. Wonderful with Matt Dillon and Mary-Louise Parker. Then came The English Patient, which won nine Oscars, including Best Director and Best Picture - and suddenly people started paying attention. "He directed most of The English Patient with an ankle in plaster, never losing his gentle humor and precision," said Ralph Fiennes, who was nominated for an Oscar for his role as Count Laszlo de Almasy...
...original version of this article incorrectly stated that Ralph Fiennes won an Oscar for his role as Count Laszlo de Almasy in The English Patient. Fiennes lost that year to Geoffrey Rush...
...western scholarship was hard to come by, she said, but English literature was the most neglected field...
This is how Abdul Sattar Jawad, now a visiting scholar in the English and American Literature and Language department, remembered his last day at Baghdad University...
Because of the United Nations embargo, the Iraqi poetry professor said, she had not seen a new book of English literature since...