Oscar Winning Director Anthony Minghella dies at 54 news
Oscar-winning film director Anthony Minghella has died aged 54, a spokeswoman for his agent said on Tuesday.
Minghella won the Academy Award for best director in 1996 for the wartime romance The English Patient, starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche.
No more details about his death were immediately released.
Minghella was nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay for the crime thriller The Talented Mr Ripley. He also wrote the screenplay for Cold Mountain.
Previous films included Truly Madly Deeply and Mr. Wonderful.
In recent months Minghella had been making a film adaptation of Alexander McCall Smith's novel, "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" for the BBC.
