Anthony Minghella Jude Law, at Western Gardens, Ryde, Isle of Wight. 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
Colin Vaines Production in 2007, where he became Executive Producer of "The Young Victoria", "The Rum Diary", starring Johnny Depp, and "London Boulevard", the directing debut of Oscar-winning writer William Monahan, starring Keira Knightley and Colin Farrell. Returning to freelance production in 2010, he produced "Coriolanus", which marked the directing debut of its star, Ralph Fiennes, twenty years after Vaines and Fiennes first worked together on "A Dangerous Man". The film also stars Gerard Butler and Vanessa Redgrave, who won best supporting actress at the 2011 British Independent Film Awards for her role in the movie. It received its European premiere at