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Anthony Minghella
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British film director, playwright and screenwriter (1954-2008)
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Anthony Minghella (1954–2008) was a British screenwriter, playwright, film director, and film producer. Born in Ryde, Isle of Wight, England, he was educated at the University of Hull. His professional career spanned from 1981 until his death in 2008 in Hammersmith. He was a member of the Writers Guild of America West and spoke both English and German.
Minghella received several major accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Director, a Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film, and the Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He also won Laurence Olivier Awards. Additionally, he received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the European Film Award for Best Film. His son is Max Minghella.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 26
Top works
- Shirat ha-liṿyatan
- Living with Dinosaurs
- Getting Away with Murder
- The Jim Henson Novel Slipcase Box Set
- Breaking and Entering
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Directing · Ryde, Isle of Wight, England, UK
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…
Known for
- Atonement — Interviewer2007
- In Rehearsal: A New Butterfly for the Met2006
- The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing — Self2004
- Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film — Self - Director ("Play")2003
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories — Self2002
- Reflections on 'the Talented Mr. Ripley' — Self2000
- Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' — Self2000
- Welcome to Hollywood — Anthony Minghella2000
- The Talented Mr. Ripley: Making the Soundtrack — Self1999
- The Directors — Self1999
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1954
- Active to
- 2008
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 430
- Total plays
- 1,260
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Anthony+Minghella">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data
· 2014 · cited 61,916x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,474x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,786x
- The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
· 2016 · cited 14,620x
- Structure validation in chemical crystallography
· 2009 · cited 14,179x
via Crossref · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Anthony Minghella (6 January 1954 – 18 March 2008) was a British playwright and filmmaker. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007. He directed Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990), The English Patient (1996), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), and Cold Mountain (2003), and produced Iris (2001).
He received the Academy Award for Best Director for The English Patient. In addition, he received three more Academy Award nominations; he was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for both The English Patient and The Talented Mr. Ripley, and was posthumously nominated for Best Picture for The Reader (2008), as a producer.
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