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
Dominic Minghella Hannah Minghella his niece; both of whom work in movies. Dominic's son, Dante, appeared on the 2006 Channel 4 programme "Child Genius". He read PPE at Merton College, Oxford. His sister Edana Minghella co-wrote 4 episodes of Doc Martin. As a child, Minghella starred in the first film his brother Anthony directed, "A Little Like Drowning". Dominic Minghella was producer of the 2012 adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel, "The Scapegoat", directed by Charles Sturridge and starring Matthew Rhys. Minghella was lead writer and executive producer of the BBC One series "Robin Hood" for the first two seasons, overseeing 26