{"id":1032,"date":"2008-03-18T13:53:16","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T13:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/18\/english-patient-director-minghella-dies\/"},"modified":"2015-03-21T16:55:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T16:55:10","slug":"english-patient-director-minghella-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;English Patient&#8217; director Anthony Minghella dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/Anthony-Minghella.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5519\" src=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/Anthony-Minghella.jpg\" alt=\"Anthony Minghella\" width=\"225\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a>By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n<p>Oscar-winning British film director Anthony Minghella, whose epic &#8220;The English Patient&#8221; won nine 1997 Academy Awards including best picture, has died. He was 54.<\/p>\n<p>Minghella&#8217;s agent said he died Tuesday morning of a brain hemorhage. \u201cHe was operated on last week for a growth in his neck and the operation seemed to have gone well,&#8221; agent Judy Daish said. &#8220;At 5 a.m. today he had a fatal hemorrhage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The filmmaker&#8217;s other pictures include &#8220;The Talented Mr. Ripley,&#8221; &#8220;Cold Mountain&#8221; and &#8220;Breaking and Entering,&#8221; and he was known for his attention to film music, especially in collaboration with Oscar-winner Gabriel Yared.<\/p>\n<p>He recently directed the first episode of a new series based on Alexander McCall Smith&#8217;s popular &#8220;The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency,&#8221; which he coscripted with Richard Curtis. It airs on Sunday March 23 at 9 p.m. on BBC1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ray Bennett Oscar-winning British film director Anthony Minghella, whose epic &#8220;The English Patient&#8221; won nine 1997 Academy Awards including best picture, has died. He was 54. Minghella&#8217;s agent said he died Tuesday morning of a brain hemorhage. \u201cHe was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=1032\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,15],"tags":[3007,344],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-news","category-television","tag-the-english-patient","tag-anthony-minghella"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5521,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/5521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}