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
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