Just the other day, I was writing about how Anthony Minghella and Richard Curtis' The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency was heading to HBO, rather than the big screen. And today, I'm sad to report that the Oscar-winning director has passed away at the age of 54. The AP (via USA Today) has confirmed his passing through his agent, but no other details are currently available. After starting in television back in the 1980s, Anthony Minghella made his big-screen debut with Truly Madly Deeply in 1990. It was his next writer/director effort, however, that brought him real fame. In 1996, he brought us the big-screen version of The English Patient, which brought him an Oscar win and a lot of notoriety. This achievement was followed by The Talented Mr. Ripley (another Oscar nod), Cold Mountain, and Breaking and Entering.
These days, he had been busy with the Botswanian detective story, plus a short for New York, I Love You, and The Ninth Life of Louis Drax. He is survived by his wife, Carolyn Choa, and his children, Max Minghella and Hannah Minghella.
He will be deeply missed.
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3-18-2008 @ 11:44AM
JimeneX said...
wow....Just yesterday I was Imdb'ing him to see what he was up to. 'Ripley' is one of my favorite movies.
Rest in Peace Mr. Minghella, thanks for your movies.
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3-18-2008 @ 7:10PM
Fogwatt said...
A great sadness. I liked many of his films; I disliked others. But all of them had a sincerity, craft, and an unpretentious intellectualism. He made films for grown-ups - something increasingly rare - and had a genuine interest in human beings and their attempts to fathom this strange, violent, and beautiful world. I will miss him.
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3-19-2008 @ 1:15AM
Nick said...
This is terrible news. He was a great director, who never made an uninteresting work, and he was always a delight himself in small film roles or in interviews. I remember being happy to see his name in the credits for Atonement last year, not noticing his cameo at the end because I was so swept up in the film, but I remember thinking how good "that actor at the end" was, and how important that tiny bit was to the entire movie.
He will be sorely, sorely missed.
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