Anthony Minghella Jude Law, at Western Gardens, Ryde, Isle of Wight. Anthony Minghella Anthony Minghella, (6 January 195418 March 2008) was a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for "The English Patient" (1996). In addition, he received three more Academy Award nominations; he was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for both "The English Patient" (1996) and "The Talented Mr. Ripley" (1999), and was posthumously nominated for Best Picture for "The Reader" (2008), as a co-producer. Minghella was
Ralph Fiennes Festival FEST. He filmed his version of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" in the Serbian capital of Belgrade. Fiennes reunited with Kathryn Bigelow for her Iraq War film "The Hurt Locker," released in 2009, appearing as an English Private Military Contractor. They had previously worked together on "Strange Days" (1995). In April 2010, he played Hades in "Clash of the Titans", a remake of the 1981 film of the same name. In 2012, he starred in the twenty-third James Bond film, "Skyfall," directed by Sam Mendes. He will replace Dame Judi Dench as M in future Bond films. Dench had also starred alongside