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Hamlet [1996]
Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1996
Running Times: 150 mins [short version] / 242 mins
[long version]
Length: 3527 metres [short version] / 6893 metres [long
version]
Format: 35mm / 65mm / 70mm Panavision / Super 70
Colour Format: Technicolor
Ratio: 2.20:1 [70mm prints] / 2.35:1 [35 mm prints]
Sound: 70mm 6-Track / Dolby Digital / SDDS
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Castle Rock Entertainment / Columbia Pictures
Corporation / Fishmonger Films / Turner Pictures
Producer: David Barron
Production Manager: Iona Price
Production Coordinator: Lil Heyman
SCRIPT
Adaptation: Kenneth Branagh
Play: William Shakespeare
DIRECTION
Director: Kenneth Branagh
1st Assistant Director: Simon Moseley
2nd Assistant Directors: Sallie-Ann Hard, Richard Styles, Sara Desmond
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Alex Thomson
Camera Operators: Martin Kenzie, Nic Milner
1st Assistant Camera: Robert Binnall
1st Assistant A Camera: Chyna Thomson
Gaffer: Dave Moroni
Rigging Gaffer: Ossa Mills
Stills: Rolf Konow
Grip and Lighting Equipment: Lee Lighting Ltd
Cameras and Lenses: Panavision
Labs: Technicolor, London, UK
EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Neil Farrell
Assistant Editors: Jens Baylis, Melanie Viner-Cuneo
Associate Editor: Daniel Farrell
MUSIC
Music: Patrick Doyle
Song Performed By: Plácido Domingo [In Pace]
Song Text Researched and Adapted By Russell Jackson
Conductor: Robert Ziegler
Orchestrators: Lawrence Ashmore, John Bell [uncredited]
Music Producers: Maggie Rodford, Patrick Doyle
Supervising Music Editor: Roy Prendergast
Music Editor: Gerard McCann
SOUND
Production Sound Mixer: Peter Glossop
Re-Recording Mixers: Dominic Lester, Robin O'Donoghue
Supervising Sound Editor: Peter Pennell
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Peter Montagna
Costume Designer: Alexandra Byrne
Costume Supervisor: Sharon Long
Dresser to Kenneth Branagh: Dan Grace
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: The Magic Camera Company; The Moving Picture Company
Special Effects Supervisor: Joss Williams
Special Effects Technician: Manex Efrem
Special Effects Administrator: Michael Dawson
VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Producer: Alison O'Brien
Visual Effects Designers: Dan Glass, Tom Debenham
1st Assistant Director: David Carrigan
Model Unit
Director of Photography: Nigel Stone
DIGITAL EFFECTS
Digital Effects: The Computer Film Company
Scanning Operators: Adrian De Wet, Joe Pavlo
The Computer Film Company
Producer: Kevin Phelan
Assistant Producer: Cathy Shaw
Studio Manager: Pete Hanson
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Tim Harvey
Art Director: Desmond Crowe
Assistant Art Director: Don Dossett
Construction Coordinator: Michael Redding
Construction Buyer: Richard Lyon
Property Master: Danny Hunter
MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Annie Wotton
2nd Unit Script Supervisor: Sharon Mansfield
Production Assistant: Phil Stoole
Assistant To Joss Williams: Rebecca Erwin Spencer
LOCATIONS
Locations: Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Studio: Shepperton Studios, England, UK
STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Simon Crane
Assistant Stunt Coordinator: Sean McCabe
Stunts: Tom Delmar
Stunt Doubles: Sean McCabe [Hamlet]; Andreas Petrides [Leartes]; Tom
Delmar [old Hamlet]
Utility Stunts: Peter Pedrero [uncredited]
Fight Arranger / Sword Master: Nick Powell
CASTING
Casting: Simone Ireland, Vanessa Pereira
CAST
Riz Abbasi [attendant to Claudius]
David Blair [attendant to Claudius]
Brian Blessed [ghost]
Kenneth Branagh [Hamlet]
Richard Briers [Polonius]
Michael Bryant [priest]
Peter Bygott [attendant to Claudius]
Julie Christie [Gertrude]
Billy Crystal [1st gravedigger]
Charles Daish [stage Manager]
Reece Dinsdale [Guildenstern]
Ken Dodd [Yorick]
Angela Douglas [attendant to Gertrude]
Rob Edwards [Lucianus]
Nicholas Farrell [Horatio]
Ray Fearon [Francisco]
Yvonne Gidden [Doctor]
Rosemary Harris [player queen]
Charlton Heston [player king]
Ravil Isyanov [Cornelius]
Derek Jacobi [Claudius]
Rowena King [attendant to Gertrude]
Jeffery Kissoon [Fortinbras's captain]
Sarah Lam [attendant to Gertrude]
Jack Lemmon [Marcellus]
Ian McElhinney [Barnardo]
Michael Maloney [Laertes]
Duke of Marlborough [Fortinbras's general]
John Mills [Old Norway]
Jimi Mistry [sailor two]
Sian Radinger [prologue]
Melanie Ramsey [prostitute]
Simon Russell Beale [2nd gravedigger]
Andrew Schofield [young Lord]
Rufus Sewell [Fortinbras]
Timothy Spall [Rosencrantz]
Tom Szekeres [young Hamlet]
Ben Thom [1st player]
Don Warrington [Voltimand]
Perdita Weeks [2nd player]
Robin Williams [Osric]
Kate Winslet [Ophelia]
David Yip [sailor one]
Christopher Bowles [cadet in play scene - uncredited]
Jimmy Ellis [old Fortinbras - uncredited]
Frank Morgan [Pyrrhus - uncredited]
Orlando Seale [boatman - uncredited]
Jimmy Yuill [Alexander (uncredited)]
ADDITIONAL CAST [only in longer version]
Richard Attenborough
[English ambassador]
Judi Dench [Hecuba]
Gérard Depardieu [Reynaldo]
John Gielgud [Priam]
SUMMARY
Hamlet returns to his family's palace at Elsinore to find that his
uncle Claudius has married his mother Gertrude. The ghost of his father
tells him to avenge his murder by Claudius. Hamlet feigns madness and
stages a play that re-enacts his father's murder. But he ends up killing
the father of his lover Ophelia and is pursued by her brother Laertes.
All the while, Prince Fortinbras of Denmark is seeking to avenge the
death of his father at the hands of Hamlet's father by invading Hamlet's
land...
AVAILABILITY
Argentina
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International
Video Distributor: LK-TEL
Finland
Theatrical Distributor: Finnkino Oy
Germany
Theatrical Distributor: Concorde
Spain
Theatrical Distributors: Castle Rock Entertainment / Filmayer S.A. /
Turner S.A.
USA
Theatrical Distributors: Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Entertainment
Laserdisc Distributor: Columbia / Tristar
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Argentina
Rating: 13
Chile
Rating: 14
Finland
Rating: K-12/9
Germany
Rating: 12
Norway
Rating: 11
Portugal
Rating: M/16
Spain
Rating: 13
Sweden
Rating: 15
UK
Rating: PG
USA
Rating: PG-13
AWARDS
1996
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards, USA
Best Actor [Kenneth Branagh] - winner
1997
Academy Awards, USA
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration [Tim Harvey] - nominated
Best Costume Design [Alexandra Byrne] - nominated
Best Music, Original Dramatic Score [Patrick Doyle] - nominated
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium [Kenneth
Branagh] - nominated
British Academy Awards, UK
Best Costume Design [Alexandra Byrne] - nominated
Best Production Design [Tim Harvey] - nominated
British Society of Cinematographers, UK
Best Cinematography Award [Alex Thomson] - winner
David Lenham Award for Excellence [Martin Kenzie] - winner
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
Best Picture - nominated
Camerimage
Golden Frog [Alex Thomson] - nominated
Golden Satellite Awards, USA
Best Motion Picture Costume Design [Alex Byrne] - nominated
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture:
Drama [Kate Winslet] - nominated
Outstanding Art Direction [Tim Harvey] - nominated
Outstanding Cinematography [Alex Thomson] - nominated
Outstanding Original Score [Patrick Doyle] - nominated
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
Golden Reel Award Best Sound Editing: Music Foreign and Domestic [Gerard
McCann (music editor)] - nominated
Society of Motion Picture and Television Art Directors, USA
Award for Excellence in Production Design Feature Film [Desmond Crowe
(art director), Tim Harvey (production designer)] - nominated
1998
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, Italy
Migliore Doppiaggio Maschile [Massimo Popolizio] - winner
TIMELINE
1996
December
25: USA - theatrical release
1997
February
6: Netherlands - theatrical release
14: UK - theatrical release
26: Belgium - theatrical release
28: Brazil, Colombia, Mexico - theatrical release
March
7: Italy - theatrical release
26: Venezuela - theatrical release
April
4: Denmark - theatrical release
May
5: Spain - theatrical release [long version]
12: France long version shown at the Cannes Film Festival
14: France - theatrical release [long version]
16: Portugal - theatrical release
22: Australia - theatrical release
28: France - theatrical release [short version]
30: Switzerland - theatrical release in German speaking region
June
5: Germany - theatrical release
18: Spain - theatrical release [short version]
July
10: Argentina - theatrical release
August
19: USA - laserdisc release [Columbia/Tristar]
28: Singapore - theatrical release
29: Sweden - theatrical release
October
23: Hong Kong - theatrical release [short version]
November
2: Iceland - shown at the Reykjavik Film Festival
December
24: Slovenia - theatrical release [short version]
1998
January
24: Japan - theatrical release
April
10: Finland - theatrical release
1999
January
3: Hungary - television broadcast
2001
November
20: Russia - DVD release
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
LINKS
SEE ALSO
Amleto [1908a]
Amleto [1908b]
Amleto [1910]
Amleto [1914]
Amleto [1917]
Le duel d'Hamlet [1900]
Gamlet [1964]
Green Eggs and Hamlet [1995]
Hamile [1964]
Hamlet [1907]
Hamlet [1909]
Hamlet [1910a]
Hamlet [1910b]
Hamlet [1910c]
Hamlet [1913]
Hamlet [1921]
Hamlet [1947]
Hamlet [1948]
Hamlet [1954]
Hamlet [1955]
Hamlet [1959]
Hamlet [1960]
Hamlet [1964]
Hamlet [1964a]
Hamlet [1964b]
Hamlet [1969]
Hamlet [1970]
Hamlet [1972]
Hamlet [1973]
Hamlet [1976]
Hamlet [1987]
Hamlet [1990a]
Hamlet [1990b]
Hamlet [1992]
Hamlet [2000]
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark [1980]
Herança [1970]
Io, Amleto [1952]
Khoon Ka Khoon [1935]
Den Tragiska historien om Hamlet - Prins av Danmark [1984]
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Empire June 1996 pp.10-11 [UK]
illustrated article
Empire March 1997 p.26 [UK]
review [by Ian Nathan]
Cinefantastique June 1996 p.6 [USA]
note
Film Review March 1997 p.18 [UK]
review [by Marianne Gray]
Imágenes June 1997 p.117 [Spain]
review [by Tomás Fernández Valentí]
Premičre June 1997 p.38 [France]
review [by Jean-Yves Katelan]
Studio June 1997 p.18 [France]
review [by Laurent Tirard]
Total Film March 1997 p.96 [UK]
review [by Dean Evans]
NEWSPAPERS
A Capital 16 May 1997 [Portugal]
review [by Francisco Perestrello]
A Capital, Guia TV 28 November 1997 [Portugal]
review [by Rui Brazuna]
Diario de Noticias 18 May 1997 [Portugal]
review [by Eurico De Barros]
Diario de Noticias, Programas 16 May
1997 [Portugal]
review [by Joao Antunes]
Expresso, Cartaz 24 May 1997 [Portugal]
review [by Manuel Cintra Ferreira]
Svenska Dagbladet 29 August 1997 [Sweden]
review [Shakespeare överväldigar i Branaghs Hamlet by Elisabeth Sörenson]
KEYWORDS
drowning, fencing, funerals, ghosts, insanity, kings, palaces, play
into film, poison, poisoning, politics, princes, revenge, royalty, skulls
Last Updated:
30 June, 2007
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