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
Frederick Fiennes, 16th Baron Saye and Sele the family home of Broughton Castle but the house had to be let to tenants from 1885. He died on 25 May 1887. Fiennes married in 1827 Emily Wingfield, daughter of Richard Wingfield, 4th Viscount Powerscourt. He was succeeded by his son John Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 17th Baron Saye and Sele. His other children included: He married, secondly, Caroline Leigh (c.1824–1909). His descendents include the explorer Ranulph Fiennes and actors Ralph Fiennes and Joseph Fiennes. Frederick Fiennes, 16th Baron Saye and Sele Fiennes was born Frederick Benjamin Twisleton on 4 July 1799, a son of Thomas James Twisleton. He was educated at