British film director Anthony Minghella, who won an Oscar for The English Patient, died in a London hospital on Tuesday after a short illness, his agent said. He was 54. Minghella died from complications following surgery last week for cancer of the tonsils and neck, agent Leslee Dart said.
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/ 9 September 2007
It remains one of cinema’s iconic set pieces. A group of young male athletes, clad in old-fashioned whites emblazoned with the Union flag, run along a beach. Their slow-motion strides are matched by a soundtrack so memorable it has become a sporting cliché.