Anthony Minghella Tribute

About Minghella

Trade Mark

Frequently works with Jude Law

Anthony's Italian parents are famous for their ice cream factory.

After attending the University of Hull (North Yorkshire/Humberside, England), he briefly worked as a university professor where he started writing music and plays. He won the London Theater Critics Award in 1984 for Most Promising Playwright and in 1986 for Best Play with "Made In Bangkok".

Appointed a CBE in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours List.

In 1984, the London Theatre Critics named him Most Promising Playwright of the Year.

Has directed 5 actors to Oscar Nominations: Ralph Fiennes, Jude Law, Renee Zellweger, Juliette Binoche and Kristin Scott Thomas.

Brother of writers Edana Minghell and Dominic Minghella and father of Max Minghella (an actor) and Hanna Minghella (who worked as a Production Assistant on her father’s film The Talened Mr. Ripley (1999)

Personal Quotes

"The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic."

"When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money."