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Mar 25, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/25/97

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LOS ANGELES, USA, 24-MAR-97: Anthony Minghella holds his Oscar after
winning the Academy Award at the 69th annual Academy Awards for Best
Director for the film, "The English Patient," March 24. The film won
a total of nine Oscars out of 12 nominations. [Photo by Blake Sell,
Reuters]
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 LOS ANGELES, March 24 (UPI) -- Anthony Minghella of ``The English
Patient'' has captured the best director honor at the 69th annual
Academy Awards, a victory that had been foreshadowed by his win earlier
this month at the Directors Guild Awards.
 The 43-year-old Minghella had been the heavy
favorite going into Monday night's Oscars, between the DGA honor and the
fact that ``The English Patient'' had 12 nominations, the most of any
film this year.
 The movie, a best picture nominee, is a romantic epic set in World
War II, dealing with an explorer who has an affair with a colleague's
aristocratic wife, and the tragic result of that romance. Ralph Fiennes
and Kristin Scott Thomas both received nominations
in lead acting categories for their performances.
 Minghella recently said the movie's meaning is hard to say concisely.
 ``It is hard to say what (the film) is about in a single sentence,''
he said. ``But 'the heart is an organ of fire' was on a card I kept over
my desk when I was writing.''
 His screenplay adapted from Michael Ondaatje's novel also was
nominated for an Oscar.
 Minghella, an Englishman, won in what many industry pundits have
proclaimed the year of the independents, when small projects fared
better in awards nominations that those put out by major Hollywood
Studios.
 ``The English Patient,'' produced by veteran Saul Zaentz, was
distributed by Miramax Films. 20th Century Fox originally green-lighted
the $31 million movie but pulled out five weeks before filming was set
to begin.
 Minghella's previous film credits are ``Truly, Madly, Deeply'' and
``Mr. Wonderful.''
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