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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.
Franco Zeffirelli's 1990 film of Hamlet stars Mel Gibson as the title character, with Glenn Close as Gertrude, Alan Bates as Claudius and Helena Bonham Carter as Ophelia. Film scholar Deborah Cartmell has suggested that Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films are appealing because they are "sensual rather than cerebral", an approach by which he aims to ...
Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli OMRI KBE (Italian pronunciation: [ˈfraŋko ddzeffiˈrɛlli]; 12 February 1923 – 15 June 2019) [1] was an Italian stage and film director, producer, production designer and politician. He was one of the most significant opera and theatre directors of the post–World War II era, gaining both acclaim and notoriety ...
Glenn Close played Gertrude to Mel Gibson's Prince Hamlet in Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet. Julie Christie appeared as Gertrude in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet. Despite her classical training as an actor, it was her first venture into Shakespeare.
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
Dyson Lovell (28 August 1936 – 11 January 2024) was a British film producer and actor. [1] He produced amongst others, Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet, starring Mel Gibson (1990), and Francis Ford Coppola's 1984 box-office flop The Cotton Club, starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane. [2]
Director Franco Zeffirelli's son says 'Romeo and Juliet' stars Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey 'owe their notoriety essentially to this film.'
Alan Bates played Claudius as a drunken, buffoonish, craven schemer in Franco Zeffirelli's 1990 film. In Kenneth Branagh's 1996 film, Claudius was played by Derek Jacobi. Jacobi had not only been Branagh's mentor as an actor, but had previously played Hamlet himself with Patrick Stewart as Claudius in a BBC production.