Anthony Minghella, 54, Dead

Director Anthony Minghella, an Academy Award winner for "The English Patient" (1996), is dead at the age of 54. A spokesman said Minghella died from a brain hemorrhage at 5 a.m. Tuesday morning at Charing Cross Hospital in London while the director was in routine surgery. Minghella's other credits include "The Talented Mr. Ripley" (1999), "Cold Mountain" (2003) and "Breaking and Entering" (2006), all with Jude Law. Minghella was in production on "The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency," a BBC adaptation of Alexander McCall Smith's novel. Minghella was a partner with Sydney Pollack in Mirage Enterprises.