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 Soleil)" in 1960, starring Alain Delon as Ripley, and under its original title in 1999, starring Matt Damon. "Ripley Under Ground" was adapted into a 2005 film, starring Barry Pepper. "Ripley's Game" was filmed in 1977 as "The American Friend", starring Dennis Hopper, and under its original title in 2002, starring John Malkovich. The Ripley novels have also been adapted for television and radio. "The Talented Mr. Ripley" was adapted for a January 1956 episode of the anthology television series "Studio One", and Jonathan Kent played Ripley in a 1982 episode of "The South Bank Show" titled "Patricia Highsmith: A