Women in Entertainment 2010 - Power 100 List

“My parents were fascinated with studying human behavior,” says Minghella, 31, daughter of the late filmmaker Anthony Minghella (The English Patient) and Yvonne Miller.  Columbia’s newly minted president of production is now doing the same through movies as one of the fastest-rising executives in modern history. The Cambridge graduate started as an assistant at Miramax under the Weinstein brothers then landed as a creative executive for Sony’s Amy Pascal. In 2008, she was named president of production at Sony Pictures Animation, where she oversaw Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and The Smurfs.