Biography
Anthony Minghella, CBE (6 January 1954 – 18 March 2008) was an English 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), which also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film and Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Minghella, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Director · 1997
- BAFTA Award — Best Adapted Screenplay · 1997
- BAFTA Award — Best Film · 1997
- Directors Guild of America Award — Outstanding Directing – Feature Film · 1997
- BAFTA Award — Best Original Screenplay · 1992
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- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Laurence Olivier Awards
- Academy Award — Best Picture · 2009 · nominated
- European Film Award — Best Film · 2009 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 2000 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Director · 1997 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 1997 · nominated
- European Film Award — Best Film · 1997 · nominated
Filmography24 titles
The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly
The Storyteller
Inspector Morse
Atonement
The Reader
Living with Dinosaurs
Silver Linings Playbook
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The English Patient
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Cold Mountain
Truly Madly Deeply
Michael Clayton
The Quiet American
Heaven
Iris
Margaret
Catch a Fire
The Interpreter
Breaking and Entering
New York, I Love You
Boon
Mr. Wonderful
Nine