6 months ago 19th Mar 06:48
The moviemaker was appointed a Cbe (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the British monarch's birthday honours list in 2001. He was also chairman of the British Film Institute.
Minghella leaves wife Carolyn Choa, son Max and daughter Hannah.
In seperate news actor Jude Law has paid tribute to Oscar-winning film director Anthony Minghella who died on Tuesday (18Mar08).
The filmmaker - who won a Best Director Academy Award for 1996 film The English Patient - died aged 54 from a brain haemorrhage at London's Charing Cross Hospital, where he had undergone a routine operation on his neck.
Law - who starred in Minghella's Oscar nominated movies The Talented Mr.
Ripley and Cold Mountain, and the 2006 movie Breaking And Entering - said he would miss the director "hugely".
He says, "(I'd) come to value him more as a friend than as a colleague.
"He was a brilliantly talented writer and director who wrote dialogue that was a joy to speak and then put it onto the screen in a way that always looked effortless.
"He made work feel like fun. He was a sweet, warm, bright and funny man who was interested in everything from football to opera, films, music, literature, people and most of all his family".
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