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
Martha Fiennes Martha Fiennes Martha Maria Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (; born 5 February 1964) is an English film director, writer and producer. An award-winning director, Fiennes is best known for her films "Onegin" (1999), which starred her elder brother, Ralph, and "Chromophobia" (2005). Fiennes made her directorial debut with the film "Onegin" – an adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's verse novel "Eugene Onegin", which starred her brother Ralph in the title role. The film received much praise, and she won the Best Director Award at the Tokyo Film Festival and the Best Newcomer at the London Film Critics' Circle. Following "Onegin", Fiennes wrote her second