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
Olivier Ripley to leave everything he had in France to go to Los Angeles to study acting. He played in several films, including Axis of Evil directed by Anouar H. Smaine, winner of an Honorable Mention in the Los Angeles Movie Awards Film Festival 2010. He is a member of the AFTRA, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. Olivier Ripley Olivier Rippoll (born February 27, 1983), better known as Olivier Ripley, is a French film actor, director and producer. Ripley was born in France. Ripley was born in Frejus (South of France), his mother was a French and Latin teacher