Director Minghella Dies.

19-03-2008 06:48

Director Minghella Dies....

Oscar winning film director Anthony Minghella has died. He was 54.A spokesman for the filmmaker confirmed his death on Tuesday (18Mar08).According to Variety, Minghella suffered a brain haemorrhage at Charing Cross Hospital in London, where he had undergone a routine operation on his neck.

Minghella began his career writing scripts for British television programmes before his play Made In Bangkok found mainstream success in London's West End in 1986.Almost a decade later, Minghella won a Best Director Academy Award for The English Patient.He was also nominated for two Best Adapted Screenplay Oscars - for 1999's The Talented Mr. Ripley and 2003's Cold Mountain.Minghella was working on one of 15 short movies, collectively entitled New York, I Love You, at the time of his death.