Anthony Minghella Adapted Screenplay. He also received an Adapted Screenplay nomination for "The Talented Mr. Ripley" (1999). "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency", a pilot episode television adaptation which he co-wrote and directed, was broadcast posthumously on BBC One (23 March 2008); watched by 6.3 million viewers. He vocally supported "I Know I'm Not Alone", a film of musician Michael Franti's peacemaking excursions into Iraq, Palestine and Israel. He directed a party election broadcast for the Labour Party in 2005. The short film depicted Tony Blair and Gordon Brown working together and was criticised for being insincere: "The Anthony Minghella party political
Mirage Enterprises Mr. Ripley" (1999), "Iris" (2001), and "Cold Mountain" (2003). By the time of Pollack's death in 2008, "Time" magazine noted he had become "a much more prolific producer, with the pictures he made through his Mirage company tending to be smaller in scale, more eccentric, more personal than his studio pictures had been and he enjoyed godfathering them." Mirage Enterprises Mirage Enterprises was an American film production company founded by director and producer Sydney Pollack in 1985. Sydney Pollack was known for being a director and occasional actor. He began producing his own films in the 1970s, then started producing