


He has known critical and commercial success in big-budget Hollywood spectacle, small independent films and in large character pieces. Kenneth Branagh has gone on to become the first person nominated in seven different categories for an Academy Award. Hamlet is.my grandmother, Hamlet is everything you've ever thought about. but no, no, no, no, Hamlet isn't just Hamlet, oh no, no, oh no, Hamlet is me.Hamlet is.Bosnia, Hamlet is.this desk.Hamlet is the air. Then, there was his meditation on the play, the 1995 comedy "A Midwinter's Tale" (known as "In the Bleak Midwinter" in the UK), about a ill-starred community theatre production at Christmastime: Prior to directing his 1996 version, Branagh had played the part for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, had acted in the play as Laertes for the Royal Shakespeare Company production, tackled the part again with his own Renaissance Theatre Company and again in a radio version. By the time Kenneth Branagh made what is referred to as "The Eternity Version" of "Hamlet," he'd had more than twenty years to think about the part.
