6 January 1954 - 18 March 2008
Director/Writer/Producer
A prolific creative talent who spanned television, stage and film, Minghella most recently completed The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (2008) for TV. He won two BAFTAs for The English Patient (1996), with other acclaimed films including Truly Madly Deeply (1990), The Talented Mr Ripley (1999) and Cold Mountain (2003).
Watch the latest A Life in Pictures Events with BAFTA winners and nominees:
Anthony Minghella / Tilda Swinton / Cate Blanchett / The Coen Brothers
Truth or Dare: The Reality of British Television is the first in a series of BAFTA debates. An expert panel tackle the dilemmas of a specially-created reality show that's going badly wrong.
Watch legendary games designer and Academy Fellow Will Wright deliver the Annual Video Games Lecture.
Supporting, developing and promoting the art forms of the moving image