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
Vic Ripley game in which Toronto's Ace Bailey suffered a horrific career-ending head injury. Vic Ripley Victor Merrick Ripley (May 30, 1906 – March 26, 1962) was a professional hockey centerman who played 7 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins, New York Rangers and St. Louis Eagles. Ripley was later a golf pro at the Desert Inn Country Club in Las Vegas. He died of a heart attack on March 26, 1962. Ripley scored the 1,000th regular-season goal in Boston Bruins' history. It was Boston's lone goal in a 4-1 loss to the Toronto Maple