Movie director Anthony Minghella dies at 54 of brain hemorrhage

On 03.18.08, In Features, by Alexandra.

British film director Anthony Minghella has died at the age of 54, the BBC is reporting.

Minghella, whose films include The English Patient and Cold Mountain , began his career as an award-winning writer before making his big screen directorial debut with Truly, Madly, Deeply in 1991.

He picked up the Best Director Oscar for The English Patient in 1997 and was later Oscar-nominated for penning the screenplay for 1999’s The Talented Mr Ripley.

Most recently Minghella directed a TV adaptation of the book The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, due to be screened on BBC One this Easter.

A spokesman for the director said he suffered a brain hemorrhage at 5 A.M. Tuesday morning at Charing Cross Hospital in London, where he had undergone a routine operation on his neck.