The Best Picture winner stars Laurence Olivier (who won a Best Actor Oscar) in the title role and he also serves as director, for which he was Oscar nominated.

From Olivier's Oscar glory to Day-Lewis' Method meltdown (when he hallucinated and saw his dead dad onstage), THR critic Stephen Dalton picks 10 of the most riveting performances of literature's ...

Kenneth Branagh (1996) Building on two acclaimed stage performances as Hamlet, Branagh eclipsed Olivier by directing himself in this sumptuous, multi-layered, full-length film version co-starring ...

A glance at the summer issue of Mississippi Review: Hamlet, Ophelia, and Laurence OlivierAs a youth, the writer Floyd Skloot most admired Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy. “It ...

Branagh had already out-Heroded Olivier with an inferior Henry V, with battle scenes in ankle-deep mud; now he tried to out-Hamlet him with a Hamlet steeped in enough faux-snow made of bleached ...

Olivier Award-winning director Robert Icke's contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Aeschylus' Oresteia complete their North American premieres at Park Avenue Armory August 13.

The answer is yes. The screen is indeed adequate to Shakespeare at his greatest—and Director-Actor Olivier’s Hamlet is the proof. With this admirable filming of one of the most difficult of ...

Altogether “Hamlet” is one of the most impressive films ever made and, so far as Shakespeare’s work is concerned, it need never be done again on stage nor for the screen, as the Olivier ...

What a comfort to the American theater the British actor used to be! Olivier, Gielgud, Richardson—the very names gave off a ring of quality. Sir Laurence, Sir John, Sir Ralph if one preferred ...