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Films based on the theatrical play Hamlet (c. 1599-1601) by William Shakespeare. The play is in turn an adaptation of the legend of Amleth , as depicted in the Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus . Pages in category "Films based on Hamlet "
Hamlet was the first British film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. [53] It is also the first sound film of the play in English. Olivier's Hamlet is the Shakespeare film that has received the most prestigious accolades, winning the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. I, Hamlet
Ophelia is a 2018 historical drama film directed by Claire McCarthy and written by Semi Chellas about the character of the same name from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Based on the novel by Lisa Klein, the film follows the story of Hamlet from Ophelia's perspective.
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The full conflated text of Hamlet can run to four hours in performance, so most film adaptations are heavily cut, sometimes by removing entire characters. Fortinbras can be excised with minimal textual difficulty, and so a major decision for the director of Hamlet, on stage or on screen, is whether or not to include him.
The New York Review of Books praised the attention given to Shakespeare's language, "giving the meter of the verse a musician's respect"; [24] Branagh said that his aim was "telling the story with utmost clarity and simplicity". [25] Some critics, notably Stanley Kauffmann, declared the film to be the finest motion picture version of Hamlet.
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Hamlet is a 1990 drama film based on the Shakespearean tragedy of the same name, directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Mel Gibson as the eponymous character. The film also features Glenn Close , Alan Bates , Paul Scofield , Ian Holm , Helena Bonham Carter , Stephen Dillane , and Nathaniel Parker .