If you want to stick with the award-winning films, the list below gives all the films that were nominated for
Academy Awards (Oscars).
- Baz Luhrman's Romeo+Juliet
was nominated for an Oscar for best set direction.
- Richard Loncraine's Richard
III was nominated for best art direction and best costume design.
- Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet
was nominated for Oscars for best art direction, best costume design, best music for a dramatic score, and best
writing.
- Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet
was nominated for best art direction and best costume design.
- Franco Zeffirelli's Otello
(film of Boito's opera based on Othello) was nominated for best costume design.
- Kenneth Branagh's Henry V was nominated for best costume design and won Oscars for best actor (Branagh)
and best director.
- Akira Kurosawa's Ran
(based on King Lear) was nominated for best set direction, best cinematography, and best director, and won
best costume design.
- Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo
and Juliet was nominated for best picture and best director, and won best cinematography and best costume
design.
- Laurence Olivier's Othello
was nominated for best actor (Olivier), best supporting actor (Frank Finlay), and best supporting actress (Joyce
Redman and Maggie Smith).
- Laurence Olivier's Richard
III was nominated for best actor (Olivier).
- Forbidden
Planet (based on The Tempest) was nominated for best special effects.
- Franco Zeffirelli's Taming
of the Shrew was nominated for best set direction and best costume design.
- West
Side Story (based on Romeo and Juliet) was nominated for best writing, and won best set direction,
best cinematography, best costume design, best director, best film editing, best music, best picture, best sound,
best supporting actor (George Chakiris), and best supporting actress (Rita Moreno).
- Kiss Me Kate (based
on Taming of the Shrew) was nominated for best music.
- Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius
Caesar was nominated for best actor (Marlon Brando), best cinematography, best music, and best picture,
and it won best set direction.
- Laurence Olivier's Hamlet was nominated for best music, best director, best supporting actress (Jean
Simmons) and won best actor (Olivier), best picture, best costume design, and best set direction.
- Olivier's Henry V was nominated for best actor (Olivier), best picture, best art direction, and best
music. Olivier won an honorary award for outstanding achievment as actor, producer, and director.
- The Boys from Syracuse (based on Comedy of Errors) was nominated for best art direction and best
effects.
- George Cukor's Romeo and Juliet
was nominated for best actress (Norma Shearer), best art direction, best picture, and best supporting actor (Basil
Rathbone).
- Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer
Night's Dream was nominated for best picture and won best cinematography and best editing.