Anthony Minghella Juliet Stevenson, Bill Nighy and Jenny Howe. His first radio play "Hang Up", starring Anton Lesser and Juliet Stevenson, was revived on 10 May 2008 as part of the BBC Radio 4 Minghella season. "Truly, Madly, Deeply" (1990), a feature drama written and directed for the BBC's "Screen Two" anthology strand, bypassed TV broadcast and instead had a cinema release. He bypassed an offer of another "Inspector Morse" directorial to do the project, the latter he believed would have been a much higher-profile assignment. "The English Patient" (1996) brought him two Academy Awards nominations, Best Director (which he won) and
Anthony Minghella the English National Opera (London, 2005), then at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre (Vilnius, March 2006) and at the Metropolitan Opera (New York City, September 2006). The latter was transmitted live into cinemas worldwide (7 March 2008) as part of the Met's HD series and is now available on DVD. The ENO work was to have led to other operatic projects, directing again at English National Opera and collaborating with Osvaldo Golijov on a new opera for the Met and ENO, writing the libretto and directing the production. He was honoured with the naming of The Anthony Minghella