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
Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes baronets adventurer and producer. He is a third cousin of actors Ralph Fiennes and Joseph Fiennes, and as a descendant of the 11th Baron Saye and Sele, he is also in remainder to this title. He married fellow adventurer Virginia Pepper in 1970. She died of cancer in 2004. There are no heirs to the title. Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes baronets The Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes Baronetcy, of Banbury in the County of Oxford, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created in the 1916 Birthday Honours for the Liberal politician and decorated military officer, the Hon. Eustace Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes. Sir Eustace was