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
Ralph Fiennes (1996) garnered him a second Academy Award nomination, for Best Actor, as well as BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations. Since then, Fiennes has been in a number of notable films, including "Quiz Show" (1994), "Strange Days" (1995), "The End of the Affair" (1999), "Red Dragon" (2002), "Maid in Manhattan" (2002), "The Constant Gardener" (2005), "In Bruges" (2008), "The Reader" (2008), "Clash of the Titans" (2010), "Great Expectations" (2012) and "The Grand Budapest Hotel" (2014). He voiced Rameses in "The Prince of Egypt" (1998) and Alfred Pennyworth in "The Lego Batman Movie" (2017). Fiennes is also known for his roles in