Regisseur, Drehbuchautor, Produzent * Sohn italienischer Einwanderer * Studium (English & drama; BA 1975) an [der] University of Hull, Yorkshire, England - 1976-81 arbeitet dort als Dozent für Schauspiel [drama] * beginnt seine künstlerische Karriere als Theaterregisseur (Mobius the Stripper, 1975 in Hull) und -autor (Whale Music, 1981; Made in Bangkok, 1986) - später schreibt auch fürs Radio (Cigarettes and Chocolate, 1988) und Fernsehen (Serien Studio /1983/, The Storyteller /1987-88/ oder Inspector Morse /1987-90/; TVM Living with Dinosaurs /1989/ mit Juliet Stevenson) * 1990 vielversprechendes Kinodebüt mit Truly Madly Deeply * 1992 dreht seine erste amerikanische Produktion (Mr. Wonderful) * 1996 feiert seinen internationalen Durchbruch mit dem preisgekrönten (u.a. neun Oscars) Melodram The English Patient * festigt sein Renommee mit zwei weiteren, starbesetzten Literaturverfilmungen (Patricia Highsmiths The Talented Mr. Ripley /1998/ und Charles Fraziers Cold Mountain /2002/) * ab 2000 Partner von Sydney Pollack bei Mirage Enterprises - seitdem auch als /ausführender/ Produzent tätig (Tom Tykwers Heaven, 2000) * 2005 inszeniert Giacomo Puccinis Madame Butterfly (an der English National Opera in London) * 2003-07 Chairman des British Film Institute * (in den 70ern) auch Songschreiber * stirbt mit 54 Jahren nach einem Routineeingriff an einer Gehirnblutung
# Mr. Wonderful (Mr. Wonderful, 1992-USA; R: AM, B: Amy Schor, Vicki Polon, K: Geoffrey Simpson, M: Michael Gore, D: Matt Dillon, Annabella Sciorra, Mary-Louise Parker, William Hurt, Vincent D'Onofrio) 98m-Liebeskomödie
# The English Patient (Der englische Patient, 1995/96-USA; R+B: AM, K: John Seale, M: Gabriel Yared, D: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas) (Roman von Michael Ondaatje)
# The Talented Mr. Ripley (Der talentierte Mr. Ripley, 1998-USA; R+B: AM, K: John Seale, M: Gabriel Yared, D: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law) 139m-Psychothriller (Roman von Patricia Highsmith) (08-12; 9912)
# Cold Mountain / Ritorno a Cold Mountain (Unterwegs nach Cold Mountain, 2002-GB/RO/I; R+B: AM, K: John Seale, M: Gabriel Yared, D: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger) 152/5m-Bürgerkriegsdrama (Buch von Charles Frazier)
# Breaking and Entering (Breaking and Entering - Einbruch & Diebstahl, 2005-GB/USA) 120m-Liebesdrama (DZ: 05-08, London)
> Academy Award (Oscar) für The English Patient (beste Regie, 1997)
> BAFTA Award für The English Patient (bestes adaptiertes Drehbuch, 1997)
> London Critics Circle Film Award für The English Patient (britischer Regisseur des Jahres, 1998)
> National Board of Review Award für The Talented Mr. Ripley (beste Regie, 1999)
> National Board of Review Award für Cold Mountain (bestes adaptiertes Drehbuch, 2003)
> Britannia Award [BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards 2006]
Mario Falsetto [Hg.]: Anthony Minghella: Interviews. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013Anthony Minghella: Interviews is an illuminating anthology of in-depth conversations with this important contemporary film director and producer. The collection explores Minghella's ideas on every aspect of the cinematic creative process including screenwriting, acting, editing, the use of music in film, and other topics concerning the role of the film director. Minghella (1954–2008) was a highly regarded British playwright (Made in Bangkok), and television writer (Inspector Morse) before turning to film directing with his quirky, highly regarded first film, Truly, Madly, Deeply, in 1990. He went on to direct an extraordinary trilogy of large-scale films, all adapted from significant works of contemporary literature. Minghella's 1996 adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's poetic novel The English Patient was the director's most critically and commercially successful film and went on to win dozens of awards around the world, including nine academy awards. Minghella followed this film with his entertaining, elegant adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley, a film that enjoyed great critical and commercial success and featured some of the best acting of the 1990s by its talented cast of young, rising stars, Jude Law, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Minghella's ambitious adaptation of Charles Frazier's American Civil War romance, Cold Mountain, was released in 2003, and firmly marked Minghella as a director of intimate, yet large-scale epic cinema worthy of David Lean. Although Minghella was a successful film director and producer, he was also an important part of the cultural life of the U.K. He was awarded a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2001 for his contributions to culture, and he was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the British Film Institute from 2004 to 2007. | 208 pages