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 on the Isle of Wight, and his nephew Dante is one of the participants in Channel 4's "Child Genius" series. Minghella was a fan of Portsmouth F.C. and appeared in the Channel 4 documentary "Hallowed Be Thy Game". His home had two double bedrooms dedicated to the display of Portsmouth memorabilia dating back to the club's founding in 1898. Minghella died of a haemorrhage on 18 March 2008 in Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith, following an operation the previous week to remove cancer of the tonsils and neck. A memorial plaque to Anthony Minghella was unveiled on 2 March 2016 by