Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anthony Minghella, CBE (6 January 1954 – 18 March 2008) was an English film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for The English Patient (1996), which also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film and Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Minghella, licensed under CC-BY-SA...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly
2024
Director
Extraordinary soprano Asmik Grigorian tackles the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the loyal geisha at the heart of Puccini’s devastating tragedy. Tenor...

The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly
2019
Production Design
Ever since it opened the 2006–07 season, Anthony Minghella’s striking production of Madama Butterfly has been a Met classic. Drawing inspiration from ...

The Metropolitan Opera - Puccini: Madama Butterfly
2016
Production Design
Anthony Minghella’s beautiful, atmospheric production enhances Puccini’s drama of unfortunate, doomed love. Soprano Kristine Opolais brings all of her...

Silver Linings Playbook
2012
Thanks
After losing his job and wife, and spending time in an institution, a former teacher winds up living with his parents. He wants to rebuild his life an...

Margaret
2011
Executive Producer
A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people...

Nine
2009
Screenplay
Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. Wit...
Remembrance
2009
Writer
Former singer Isabelle visits a hotel on the Upper East Side. She is not satisfied with the room she has been given and is taken to another room one f...

The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly
2009
Director
Anthony Minghella’s stunning production of Puccini’s opera opened the Met’s 2006–07 season and was seen by thousands of people around the world as par...

The Reader
2008
Producer
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only t...

New York, I Love You
2008
Writer
New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond Dist...

Love You More
2008
Producer
Two teenagers are drawn together by the Buzzcocks' single 'Love You More' during the summer of 1978.

Michael Clayton
2007
Executive Producer
A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty ...

Atonement
2007
as Interviewer
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime ...

Breaking and Entering
2006
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape a...

Catch a Fire
2006
Producer
The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest...
In Rehearsal: A New Butterfly for the Met
2006
Late Academy Award–winning director Anthony Minghella made his Met debut on Opening Night of the 2006–07 season, with a now-classic staging of Puccini...

The Interpreter
2005
Executive Producer
After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to i...

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004
as Self
Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.

Cold Mountain
2003
Director, Screenplay
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts ...

The Quiet American
2002
Executive Producer
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her att...

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
2002
as Self
A look at one hundred years of romance in American cinema.

Heaven
2002
Producer
Cate Blanchett stars as Philippa, a British teacher living in Turin, Italy, who has seen many friends, including her husband, fall victim to drug over...

Iris
2001
Executive Producer
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheime...

Play
2001
Director
The land is filled with people in urns chattering at top speed, but only to themselves, not to one another. The focus goes to three people: a man, his...

Welcome to Hollywood
2000
as Anthony Minghella
A film director decides to chart the course of a young actor as he tries to make it in Hollywood...

Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
2000
as Self
A look inside the making of 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'.
Reflections on 'the Talented Mr. Ripley'
2000
as Self
The stars of director of the film reflect upon their experiences.

The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999
Director, Screenplay
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U...
The Talented Mr. Ripley: Making the Soundtrack
1999
as Self
Making the soundtrack of the hit film.

The English Patient
1996
Director, Screenplay
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along w...

Mr. Wonderful
1993
Director
Electrician Gus gets the chance to fulfil a childhood dream by buying an old bowling-alley with some of his friends, but first he must find his ex-wif...

Truly Madly Deeply
1991
Director, Writer
Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost. At first it's almost as good a...

Living with Dinosaurs
1990
Writer
A socially awkward young English boy deals with his fears about his unemployed artist father, his pregnant mother, and his asthma, with the help of hi...

A Little Like Drowning
1978
as Eduardo
The story of two marriages. One, Italian, told by an old lady to her grandson. The other, Italian Scots, the old lady's, told in the present, and via ...

A Little Like Drowning
1978
Director, Writer
The story of two marriages. One, Italian, told by an old lady to her grandson. The other, Italian Scots, the old lady's, told in the present, and via ...