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
Ripley Under Ground (film) Given the film's low-profile release, critical reviews have been scarce. "Variety"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s review was less than positive, saying: "Although it strives to push Patricia Highsmith's best-known bad man in a snarky direction, "Ripley Under Ground" is too fidgety and unsure to settle on a sustained tone and ends up in a no man's land between hysterical satire and sleek Euro thriller. As previous filmic Ripleys demonstrated, from "Purple Noon" and "The American Friend" to "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Ripley's Game", it's all in the casting, and the talented Mr. Barry Pepper is not capable of pulling off the demonically complicated