Pat Jackson is a sound editor who began her career with The Godfather. She also cut sound for Blue Velvet, Forrest Gump, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Jarhead, and numerous Zaentz productions. Jackson is a faculty member in the cinema department at San Francisco State University.

It is the last days of World War II. In the ruins of a Tuscan monastery, Hana (Juliette Binoche), a haunted French Canadian, nurses her only ward, a harshly burned patient (Ralph Fiennes) whose identity is unknown. Based on the Booker Prize–winning novel by Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient is a romantic epic that pursues not so much the mystery of Hana's charred charge as the revelations that bring the heart redemption. Director Anthony Minghella (Cold Mountain, The Talented Mr. Ripley) nimbly tracks back and forth through time, following the passage of several characters whose lives intersect in the Sahara. We find that the obscure patient is one Laszlo Almasy, a Hungarian explorer, leading a survey team. Also along for the trek are tony Brits Geoffrey Clifton (Colin Firth) and his sensuously sparkling wife Katherine (Kristin Scott Thomas). Passion in the shifting sands has rarely been rendered with such cinematic virtuosity. For its patient craft, Zaentz's team received nine Academy Awards.