Shakespeare in Love
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Template:Infobox Movie (2) Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 motion picture. In this dramatic comedy/romance, William Shakespeare is portrayed as a young, struggling playwright, plagued by money shortages, problems with women, and writer's block. Some of the characters and their lines are references to lines and characters in real Shakespeare plays -- implying that these inspire the film's Shakespeare later in life. Most of the film's major plot devices are also taken from Shakespeare.
It should be noted that the movie is entirely fictional, and indeed often inconsistent with the historical record (for instance, the colonization of North America by the English did not begin until 1584 and Romeo and Juliet was largely written by 1596 or 1597). This is however consistent with the style of Shakespeare's plays, which often featured anachronisms.
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Primary cast
- Joseph Fiennes: William Shakespeare
- Gwyneth Paltrow: Viola De Lesseps
- Geoffrey Rush: Philip Henslowe
- Tom Wilkinson: Hugh Fennyman
- Judi Dench: Queen Elizabeth
- Colin Firth: Lord Wessex
- Martin Clunes: Richard Burbage
- Simon Callow: Tilney, Master of the Revels
- Imelda Staunton: Nurse
- Ben Affleck: Ned Alleyn
Synopsis
At a fake audition of a play that he has not yet written a word of, "Romeo and Ethel, the Sea Pirate's Daughter", he admires the talent of a new actor, Thomas Kent, who promptly runs away. Shakespeare meets Viola de Lesseps (played by Gwyneth Paltrow), who lives in the same house as Kent, and promptly falls in love with her, which inspires him to begin writing his play again. By the time Will realizes that Viola and Thomas are the same person, she is promised in marriage to a lord approved of by Queen Elizabeth herself (portrayed by Judi Dench). But the couple find themselves unable to avoid a clandestine affair and even risk the wrath of the law against women being on stage by having Viola play "Juliet" in Shakespeare's play, by now renamed Romeo and Juliet. At the conclusion of the play, the Queen applauds the abilities of both writer and "actor," but orders that Viola rejoin her husband, who is about to move to America.
On release, the film was compared with the 1941 novel No Bed for Bacon, which also features Shakespeare writing his plays.
Award wins
- Academy Award for Best Picture
- BAFTA Award for Best Picture
- Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
- Academy Award for Best Actress - Gwyneth Paltrow
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy - Gwyneth Paltrow
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - Judi Dench
- BAFTA Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role - Judi Dench
- Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay - Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard
- Golden Globe Award Best Screenplay - Comedy/Musical Film - Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard
- Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay - Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard
- Best Art Direction-Set Decoration - Martin Childs & Jill Quertier
- Academy Award for Costume Design - Sandy Powell
- Academy Award for Original Music Score - Stephen Warbeck
- BAFTA Award for Best Editing - David Gamble
Award nominations
- Academy Award for Directing - John Madden
- BAFTA David Lean Award for Direction - John Madden
- DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures - John Madden
- Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture - John Madden
- BAFTA Award for Best Actress - Gwyneth Paltrow
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role - Joseph Fiennes
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor - Geoffrey Rush
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Geoffrey Rush
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture - Geoffrey Rush
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Tom Wilkinson
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture - Judi Dench
- Academy Award for Best Cinematography - Richard Greatrex
- BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography - Richard Greatrex
- BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenply - Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard
- Academy Award for Film Editing - David Gamble
- Academy Award for Makeup - Lisa Westcott & Veronica Brebner
- BAFTA Award for Best Make Up/Hair - Lisa Westcott
- Academy Award for Sound - Robin O'Donoghue, Dominic Lester, Peter Glossop
- BAFTA Award for Best Sound - Robin O'Donoghue, Dominic Lester, Peter Glossop, John Downer
- BAFTA Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music - Stephen Warbeck
- BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design - Sandy Powell
- BAFTA Award for Best Production Design - Martin Childs
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