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Anthony Minghella (born January 6 , 1954 ) is an Academy Award -winning British Film Director , playwright and screenwriter. EARLY LIFE Minghella was born on the Isle Of Wight to an Italian / Scottish father and a mother who came from Leeds ; her ancestors originally came from Valvori , a small village in the Lazio region of central Italy . He attended Sandown Grammar School and St John's College (Portsmouth) . He is a graduate of the University Of Hull , where he completed both his undergraduate and graduate courses. CAREER During the 1980s, he worked in Television , Script Editing the children's drama series '' Grange Hill '' for the BBC and later writing '' The Storyteller '' series for Jim Henson . He also worked on episodes of the ITV detective drama '' Inspector Morse ''. He made his directorial debut in 1990 with '' Truly, Madly, Deeply '', a drama he had written and directed for the BBC's '' Screen One '' anthology strand. It became a major success when released to cinemas. In order to make the film, he turned down an offer to direct an episode of '' Inspector Morse '', which he thought would be a much higher-profile assignment. In 1996, he won the Academy Award For Directing for '' The English Patient ''. He was nominated for the Academy Award For Adapted Screenplay for 1999's '' The Talented Mr. Ripley '' and 2003's '' Cold Mountain ''. He is currently the chairman of the British Film Institute . He vocally supported ''I Know I'm Not Alone'', a film of Musician Michael Franti 's peacemaking excursions into Iraq , Palestine and Israel . He directed a Party Election Broadcast for the Labour Party in 2005. The short film depicted Tony Blair and Gordon Brown working together and was criticised for being insincere. "The Anthony Minghella party political broadcast last year was full of body language fibs", says Peter Collett, a psychologist at the University Of Oxford . "When you are talking to me, I'll give you my full attention only if I think you are very high status or if I love you. On that part political broadcast, they are staring at each other like lovers. It is completely false." {Link without Title} He made his in New York City in September 2006 . PERSONAL LIFE He is married to Hong Kong -born choreographer Carolyn Choa. His brother, Dominic , is also a successful scriptwriter, and his son, Max , is an actor. His sister Edana is currently involved in a Jazz event on the Isle of Wight, and his nephew Dante is one of the participants in Channel 4's ''Child Genius'' series. He is a big Portsmouth FC fan and appeared in the Channel 4 documentary ''Hallowed Be Thy Game''. Selected filmography
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