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
Tom Ripley Ripley believes that getting his own way is worth whatever price anyone else might have to pay. We all have a little of that in us." In his 2001 book "Malignant Self-Love: Narcissism Revisited", Sam Vaknin writes that Ripley (as portrayed in the 1999 film "The Talented Mr. Ripley") meets five of the seven criteria for antisocial personality disorder, and displays narcissistic traits. Across the five books, Ripley commits homicide nine times, and indirectly causes an additional five deaths. Highsmith's first three Ripley novels have been adapted into films. "The Talented Mr. Ripley" was filmed as "Purple Noon (French: Plein