Question: Who was the director of the 1994 British biographical historical comedy-drama film for which Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne  was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying King George III?
Sentence (from "Sir Nigel"): It is the background story to Doyle's earlier novel "The White Company", and describes the early life of that book's hero Nigel Loring, a knight in the service of King Edward III in the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
Relevant evidence: No