Anthony Minghella 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 born in Ryde, on the Isle of Wight, an
Susannah Fiennes Susannah Fiennes Susannah Fiennes (born 1961) is a British artist who has worked extensively with the Prince of Wales and is collected in Europe, Asia and America. Fiennes is the daughter of Lord and Lady Saye and Sele, who are the owners of Broughton Castle. She is also the cousin of actor Ralph Fiennes. She was educated at Marlborough College and then at the Slade School of Art where she graduated with First Class Honours in 1983. From 1985–1987 she taught Art and History of Art, at Dulwich College, London. Subsequently, she ran a private art class in Westminster, London