Shakespeare in Love - wikipedia Shakespeare in Love For the theatre adaptation, see Shakespeare in Love ( play ). Shakespeare in Love Theatrical release poster Directed by John Madden Produced by David Parfitt Donna Gigliotti Harvey Weinstein Edward Zwick Marc Norman Written by Marc Norman Tom Stoppard Starring Gwyneth Paltrow Joseph Fiennes Geoffrey Rush Colin Firth Ben Affleck Judi Dench Music by Stephen Warbeck Cinematography Richard Greatrex Edited by David Gamble Production company Universal Pictures The Bedford Falls Company Distributed by Miramax Films ( US ) Universal Pictures ( Worldwide ) Release date December 3, 1998 ( 1998 - 12 - 03 ) ( United States ) Running time 123 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $25 million Box office $289.3 million Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 American romantic period comedy - drama film directed by John Madden, written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard. The film depicts an imaginary love affair involving Viola de Lesseps ( Gwyneth Paltrow ) and playwright William Shakespeare ( Joseph Fiennes ) while he was writing Romeo and Juliet. Several characters are based on historical figures, and many of the characters, lines, and plot devices allude to Shakespeare 's plays. Shakespeare in Love won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress ( Gwyneth Paltrow ), Best Supporting Actress ( Judi Dench ) and Best Original Screenplay. Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 4 References to Elizabethan literature 5 Plot precedents and similarities 6 Historical inaccuracies 7 Reception 7.1 Accolades 8 Cultural influence 9 Stage adaptation 10 References 11 External links Plot In 1593 London, William Shakespeare is a sometime player in the Lord Chamberlain 's Men and poor playwright for Philip Henslowe, owner of The Rose Theatre. Shakespeare is working on a new comedy, Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate 's Daughter. Suffering from writer 's block, he has barely begun the play, and is further distracted by attempts both to seduce Rosaline, the mistress of Richard Burbage, owner of the rival Curtain Theatre and to convince Burbage to buy the play from Henslowe. Shakespeare receives helpful advice on his play from rival playwright Christopher ' Kit ' Marlowe ', but becomes despondent when he learns Rosaline is sleeping with Edmund Tilney, the powerful Master of Revels. Henslowe, who is in debt to the ruthless moneylender Fennyman and in desperate need for a new play, begins auditions anyway. Viola de Lesseps, the daughter of a wealthy merchant, who has seen Shakespeare 's plays at court, disguises herself as a man named Thomas Kent to audition. `` He '' gains Shakespeare 's interest when he auditions with a speech from Two Gentlemen of Verona after a series of actors bore him by reciting Christopher Marlowe, but when Shakespeare questions her, Viola runs away in fear of being discovered. Shakespeare pursues Kent to Viola 's house and leaves a note with the nurse, asking Thomas Kent to begin rehearsals at the Rose. He sneaks into the house with the minstrels playing that night at the ball, where Viola 's parents are arranging her betrothal to Lord Wessex, an impoverished aristocrat. While dancing with Viola, Shakespeare is struck speechless, but is forcibly ejected by Wessex. Wessex also asks Will 's name, to which he replies that he is Christopher Marlowe after Wessex threatens to kill him. Shakespeare sneaks into Viola 's garden, finding her on her balcony, where they briefly confess their mutual attraction to each other before he is discovered by her nurse and flees. Inspired by Viola, Shakespeare writes quickly, completely transforming the play into what will become Romeo and Juliet. Rehearsals begin, with `` Thomas Kent '' as Romeo, the leading tragedian Ned Alleyn as Mercutio and the stagestruck Fennyman given a small role as the Apothocary. Shakespeare soon discovers Viola 's true identity, and they begin a secret affair. Viola is summoned to court to receive approval for her proposed marriage to Lord Wessex. Shakespeare accompanies her, disguised as her female cousin. There, he persuades Wessex to wager £ 50 that a play can capture the true nature of love, the exact amount Shakespeare requires to buy a share in the Chamberlain 's Men. Queen Elizabeth I declares that she will judge the matter when the occasion arises. When Burbage finds out that Shakespeare has both seduced Rosaline and cheated him out of the money he was paid for the play, he goes to the Rose Theatre with his Curtain Theatre Company and starts a brawl. The Rose Theatre company drives Burbage and his company out and then celebrate at the local pub, where a drunken Henslowe lets slip to a horrified Viola that Shakespeare is married, albeit separated from his wife. News arrives that Marlowe has been murdered, and a guilt - ridden Shakespeare believes Wessex has had Marlowe killed, believing him to be Viola 's lover. Viola briefly believes Shakespeare has been murdered but he appears at her church, terrifying Wessex who believes he is a ghost. Viola confesses her love for Shakespeare, but both recognize she can not escape her duty to marry Wessex. John Webster, an unpleasant young boy who hangs around the theater, spies on Will and Viola making love and informs Tilney, who closes the Rose for breaking the ban on women actors. Viola 's identity is exposed, leaving them without a stage or lead actor, until Richard Burbage offers them his theatre and the heartbroken Shakespeare takes the role of Romeo. Following her wedding, Viola learns that the play will be performed that day, and runs away to the Curtain. Planning to watch with the crowd, Viola overhears that the boy playing Juliet can not perform, his voice having broken overnight, and Henslowe asks her to replace him. She plays Juliet to Shakespeare 's Romeo to an enthralled audience. Master Tilney arrives to arrest everyone for indecency due to Viola 's presence, but the Queen reveals herself having been in attendance and restrains Tilney, instead asserting that Kent 's resemblance to a woman is, indeed, remarkable. However, even a queen is powerless to end a lawful marriage, and she orders Kent to `` fetch '' Viola because she must sail with Wessex to the Colony of Virginia. The Queen also tells Wessex, who followed Viola to the theatre, that Romeo and Juliet has won the bet for Shakespeare, and has Kent deliver his £ 50 with instructions to write something `` a little more cheerful next time, for Twelfth Night ''. Viola and Shakespeare say their goodbyes, and he vows to immortalise her, as he imagines the beginnings of Twelfth Night, imagining her as a castaway disguised as a man after a voyage to a strange land. Cast Gwyneth Paltrow as Viola de Lesseps Joseph Fiennes as William Shakespeare Geoffrey Rush as Philip Henslowe Colin Firth as Lord Wessex Ben Affleck as Ned Alleyn Judi Dench as Elizabeth I of England Simon Callow as Edmund Tilney Jim Carter as Ralph Bashford Martin Clunes as Richard Burbage Antony Sher as Dr. Moth Imelda Staunton as Nurse Tom Wilkinson as Hugh Fennyman Mark Williams as Wabash Daniel Brocklebank as Sam Gosse Jill Baker as Lady de Lesseps Patrick Barlow as Will Kempe Joe Roberts as John Webster John Inman as Lady Capulet Rupert Everett as Christopher ' Kit ' Marlowe Sandra Reinton as Rosaline Production The original idea for Shakespeare in Love came to screenwriter Marc Norman in the late 1980s after a rudimentary pitch from his son Zachary. Norman wrote a draft screenplay which he presented to director Edward Zwick, which attracted Julia Roberts, who agreed to play Viola. However, Zwick disliked Norman 's screenplay and hired the playwright Tom Stoppard to improve it ( Stoppard 's first major success had been with the Shakespeare - themed play Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead ). The film went into production in 1991 at Universal, with Zwick as director, but although sets and costumes were in construction, Shakespeare had not yet been cast, because Roberts insisted that only Daniel Day - Lewis could play the role. Day - Lewis was uninterested, and when Roberts failed to persuade him, she withdrew from the film, six weeks before shooting was due to begin. The production went into turnaround, and Zwick was unable to persuade other studios to take up the screenplay. Eventually, Zwick got Miramax interested in the screenplay, but Miramax chose John Madden as director. Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein acted as producer, and persuaded Ben Affleck to take a small role as Ned Alleyn. The film was considerably reworked after the first test screenings. The scene with Shakespeare and Viola in the punt was re-shot, to make it more emotional, and some lines were re-recorded to clarify the reasons why Viola had to marry Wessex. The ending was re-shot several times, until Stoppard eventually came up with the idea of Viola suggesting to Shakespeare that their parting could inspire his next play. Among the locations used in the production were Hatfield House, Hertfordshire ( for the fireworks scene ), Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire ( which played the role of the de Lesseps home ), the beach at Holkham in Norfolk, the chapel at Eton College, Berkshire, and the Great Hall of Middle Temple, London. References to Elizabethan literature Much of the action of the film echoes that of Romeo and Juliet. Will and Viola play out the famous balcony and bedroom scenes ; like Juliet, Viola has a witty nurse, and is separated from Will by a gulf of duty ( although not the family enmity of the play : the `` two households '' of Romeo and Juliet are supposedly inspired by the two rival playhouses ). In addition, the two lovers are equally `` star - crossed '' -- they are not ultimately destined to be together ( since Viola is of rich and socially ambitious merchant stock and is promised to marry Lord Wessex, while Shakespeare himself is poor and already married ). There is also a Rosaline, with whom Will is in love at the beginning of the film. There are references to earlier cinematic versions of Shakespeare, such as the balcony scene pastiching the Zeffirelli Romeo and Juliet. Many other plot devices used in the film are common in Shakespearean comedies and other plays of the Elizabethan era : the Queen disguised as a commoner, the cross-dressing disguises, mistaken identities, the sword fight, the suspicion of adultery, the appearance of a `` ghost '' ( cf. Macbeth ), and the `` play within a play ''. According to Douglas Brode, the film deftly portrays many of these devices as though the events depicted were the inspiration for Shakespeare 's own use of them in his plays. The film also has sequences in which Shakespeare and the other characters utter words that later appear in his plays, or in other ways echo those plays : On the street, Shakespeare hears a Puritan preaching against the two London stages : `` The Rose smells thusly rank, by any name ! I say, a plague on both their houses ! '' Two references in one, both to Romeo and Juliet ; first, `` A rose by any other name would smell as sweet '' ( Act II, scene ii, lines 1 and 2 ) ; second, `` a plague on both your houses '' ( Act III, scene I, line 94 ). Backstage at a performance of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Shakespeare sees William Kempe in full make - up, silently contemplating a skull, a reference to the gravediggers scene in Hamlet. Shakespeare utters the lines `` Doubt thou the stars are fire, / Doubt that the sun doth move '' ( from Hamlet ) to Philip Henslowe. As Shakespeare 's writer 's block is introduced, he is seen crumpling balls of paper and throwing them around his room. They land near props which represent scenes in several of his plays : a skull ( Hamlet ), and an open chest ( The Merchant of Venice ). Viola, as well as being Paltrow 's character in the film, is the name of the lead character in Twelfth Night who dresses as a man after the supposed death of her brother. At the end of the film, Shakespeare imagines a shipwreck overtaking Viola on her way to America, inspiring the second scene of his next play, Twelfth Night, a scene which also echoes the beginning of The Tempest. Shakespeare writes a sonnet to Viola which begins : `` Shall I compare thee to a summer 's day ? '' ( from Sonnet 18 ). Shakespeare tells Henslowe that he still owes him for `` one gentleman of Verona '', a reference to Two Gentlemen of Verona, part of which we also see being acted before the Queen later in the film. In a boat, Shakespeare tells Viola, who is disguised as Thomas Kent, of his lady 's beauty and charms, she dismisses his praise, as no real woman could live up to this ideal, this is a ' set up ' for Sonnet 130, `` My mistress ' eyes are nothing like the sun ''. Later in the same scene Shakespeare 's boatman identifies himself as a writer and attempts to foist his work on his passenger. This may allude to the Elizabethan waterman and poet John Taylor ( poet ). Christopher Marlowe is presented in the film as the master playwright whom the characters consider the greatest English dramatist of that time -- this is historically accurate, yet also humorous, since the film 's audience knows what will eventually happen to Shakespeare 's reputation. Marlowe gives Shakespeare a plot for his next play, `` Romeo and Ethel the Pirate 's Daughter '' ( `` Romeo is Italian... always in and out of love... until he meets... Ethel. The daughter of his enemy ! His best friend is killed in a duel by Ethel 's brother or something. His name is Mercutio. '' ) Marlowe 's Doctor Faustus is quoted repeatedly : `` Was this the face that launched a thousand ships / And burned the topless towers of Ilium ? '' A reference is also made to Marlowe 's final, unfinished play The Massacre at Paris in a scene wherein Marlowe ( Rupert Everett ) seeks payment for the final act of the play from Richard Burbage ( Martin Clunes ). Burbage promises the payment the next day, so Marlowe refuses to part with the pages and departs for Deptford, where he is killed. The only surviving text of The Massacre at Paris is an undated octavo that is probably too short to represent the complete original play. It has been suggested that it is a memorial reconstruction by the actors who performed the work. The child John Webster who plays with mice is a reference to the leading figure in the next, Jacobean, generation of playwrights. His plays ( The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil ) are known for their ' blood and gore ', which is humorously referred to by the child saying that he enjoys Titus Andronicus, and also saying of Romeo and Juliet, when asked his opinion by the Queen, `` I liked it when she stabbed herself. '' When the clown Will Kempe ( Patrick Barlow ) says to Shakespeare that he would like to play in a drama, he is told that `` they would laugh at Seneca if you played it, '' a reference to the Roman tragedian renowned for his sombre and bloody plot lines which were a major influence on the development of English tragedy. Will is shown signing a paper repeatedly, with many relatively illegible signatures visible. This is a reference to the fact that several versions of Shakespeare 's signature exist, and in each one he spelled his name differently. Plot precedents and similarities After the film 's release, certain publications, including Private Eye, noted strong similarities between the film and the 1941 novel No Bed for Bacon, by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon, which also features Shakespeare falling in love and finding inspiration for his later plays. In a foreword to a subsequent edition of No Bed for Bacon ( which traded on the association by declaring itself `` A Story of Shakespeare and Lady Viola in Love '' ) Ned Sherrin, Private Eye insider and former writing partner of Brahms ', confirmed that he had lent a copy of the novel to Stoppard after he joined the writing team, but that the basic plot of the film had been independently developed by Marc Norman, who was unaware of the earlier work. The film 's plot can claim a tradition in fiction reaching back to Alexandre Duval 's `` Shakespeare amoureux ou la Piece a l'Etude '' ( 1804 ), in which Shakespeare falls in love with an actress who is playing Richard III. The writers of Shakespeare in Love were sued in 1999 by bestselling author Faye Kellerman. She claimed that the plotline was stolen from her 1989 novel The Quality of Mercy, in which Shakespeare romances a Jewish woman who dresses as a man, and attempts to solve a murder. Miramax Films spokesman Andrew Stengel derided the claim, filed in the US District Court six days before the 1999 Academy Awards, as `` absurd '', and argued that the timing `` suggests a publicity stunt ''. Historical inaccuracies The film is `` not constrained by worries about literary or historical accuracy '' and includes anachronisms such as a reference to Virginia tobacco plantations, at a time before the Colony of Virginia existed. A leading character is a member of the House of Wessex, which died out in 1066. Elizabeth I never entered a public theatre, as she does in the film. Between Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night, Shakespeare wrote ten other plays over a period of six years. The biggest historical liberty concerns the central theme of Shakespeare struggling to create the story of Romeo and Juliet as he simply adapted an existing story for theatre. The Italian verse tale The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet had been translated into English by Arthur Brooke in 1562, 32 years before Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet. Reception Janet Maslin made the film an `` NYT Critics ' Pick '', calling it `` pure enchantment ''. According to Maslin, `` Gwyneth Paltrow, in her first great, fully realized starring performance, makes a heroine so breathtaking that she seems utterly plausible as the playwright 's guiding light. '' Roger Ebert, who gave the film four stars out of four, wrote : `` The contemporary feel of the humor ( like Shakespeare 's coffee mug, inscribed `` Souvenir of Stratford - Upon - Avon '' ) makes the movie play like a contest between `` Masterpiece Theatre '' and Mel Brooks. Then the movie stirs in a sweet love story, juicy court intrigue, backstage politics and some lovely moments from Romeo and Juliet... Is this a movie or an anthology ? I did n't care. I was carried along by the wit, the energy and a surprising sweetness. '' Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 92 % positive rating based on 131 critics ' reviews with an average rating of 8.3 out of 10. The critics ' consensus states : `` Endlessly witty, visually rapturous, and sweetly romantic, Shakespeare in Love is a delightful romantic comedy that succeeds on nearly every level. '' Shakespeare in Love was among 1999 's box office number - one films in the United Kingdom. The U.S. box office reached over $100 million ; including the box office from the rest of the world, the film took in over $289 million. The Sunday Telegraph claimed that the film prompted the revival of the title of Earl of Wessex. Prince Edward was originally to have been titled Duke of Cambridge following his marriage to Sophie Rhys - Jones in 1999, the year after the film 's release. However, after watching Shakespeare in Love, he reportedly became attracted to the title of the character played by Colin Firth, and asked Queen Elizabeth II to be given the title of Earl of Wessex instead. Accolades American Film Institute recognition : AFI 's 100 Years... 100 Passions -- # 50 Award Recipient ( s ) Outcome 71st Academy Awards Best Picture David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, Harvey Weinstein and Edward Zwick Won Best Actress Gwyneth Paltrow Won Best Supporting Actress Judi Dench Won Best Art Direction Art Direction : Martin Childs ; Set Decoration : Jill Quertier Won Best Costume Design Sandy Powell Won Best Original Musical or Comedy Score Stephen Warbeck Won Best Original Screenplay Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard Won Best Director John Madden Nominated Best Supporting Actor Geoffrey Rush Nominated Best Cinematography Richard Greatrex Nominated Best Film Editing David Gamble Nominated Best Makeup Lisa Westcott and Veronica Brebner Nominated Best Sound Robin O'Donoghue, Dominic Lester, and Peter Glossop Nominated 52nd British Academy Film Awards BAFTA Award for Best Film Won BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Judi Dench Won BAFTA Award for Best Editing David Gamble Won BAFTA Award for Best Direction John Madden Nominated BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Joseph Fiennes Nominated BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Gwyneth Paltrow Nominated BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Geoffrey Rush Nominated BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Tom Wilkinson Nominated BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography Richard Greatrex Nominated BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard Nominated BAFTA Award for Best Makeup and Hair Lisa Westcott Nominated BAFTA Award for Best Sound Robin O'Donoghue, Dominic Lester, Peter Glossop, and John Downer Nominated Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music Stephen Warbeck Nominated BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design Sandy Powell Nominated BAFTA Award for Best Production Design Martin Childs Nominated 49th Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear Nominated Silver Bear Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard Won Directors Guild of America Awards 1998 Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures John Madden Nominated 56th Golden Globe Awards Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture -- Musical or Comedy Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress -- Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Gwyneth Paltrow Won Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard Won Golden Globe Award for Best Director John Madden Nominated Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor -- Motion Picture Geoffrey Rush Nominated Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress -- Motion Picture Judi Dench Nominated 5th Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Ben Affleck, Simon Callow, Jim Carter, Martin Clunes, Judi Dench, Joseph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush, Antony Sher, Imelda Staunton, Tom Wilkinson and Mark Williams Won Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Joseph Fiennes Nominated Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Gwyneth Paltrow Won Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Geoffrey Rush Nominated Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Judi Dench Nominated Writers Guild of America Awards 1998 Best Original Screenplay Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard Won 1998 New York Film Critics Circle Awards Best Screenplay Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard Won In 2005, the Writers Guild of America ranked its script the 28th greatest ever written. Cultural influence The film was spoofed and homaged, along with Star Wars, in the 1999 short film George Lucas in Love. The film was seen and frequently interrupted by Brenda Meeks in Scary Movie. Stage adaptation Main article : Shakespeare in Love ( play ) In November 2011, Variety reported that Disney Theatrical Productions intended to produce a stage version of the film in London with Sonia Friedman Productions. The production was officially announced in November 2013. The production opened at the Noël Coward Theatre in London 's West End on 23 July 2014, receiving rave reviews from critics. It was called `` A joyous celebration of theatre '' in the Daily Telegraph, `` Joyous '' in The Independent, and `` A love letter to theatre '' in The Guardian. Based on the film screenplay by Norman and Stoppard, it was adapted for the stage by Lee Hall. The production was directed by Declan Donnellan and designed by Nick Ormerod, the joint founders of Cheek by Jowl. 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( 2001 ) Chicago ( 2002 ) Lost in Translation ( 2003 ) Sideways ( 2004 ) Walk the Line ( 2005 ) Dreamgirls ( 2006 ) Sweeney Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ( 2007 ) Vicky Cristina Barcelona ( 2008 ) The Hangover ( 2009 ) The Kids Are All Right ( 2010 ) The Artist ( 2011 ) Les Misérables ( 2012 ) American Hustle ( 2013 ) The Grand Budapest Hotel ( 2014 ) The Martian ( 2015 ) La La Land ( 2016 ) Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture ( 1995 -- 2000 ) 1995 Apollo 13 Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks, Ed Harris, Bill Paxton, Kathleen Quinlan, Gary Sinise The Birdcage Hank Azaria, Christine Baranski, Dan Futterman, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Dianne Wiest, Robin Williams The Full Monty Mark Addy, Paul Barber, Robert Carlyle, Deirdre Costello, Steve Huison, Bruce Jones, Lesley Sharp, William Snape, Hugo Speer, Tom Wilkinson, Emily Woof 1998 Shakespeare in Love Ben Affleck, Simon Callow, Jim Carter, Martin Clunes, Judi Dench, Joseph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush, Antony Sher, Imelda Staunton 1999 American Beauty Annette Bening, Wes Bentley, Thora Birch, Chris Cooper, Peter Gallagher, Allison Janney, Kevin Spacey, Mena Suvari 2000 Traffic Steven Bauer, Benjamin Bratt, James Brolin, Don Cheadle, Erika Christensen, Clifton Collins Jr., Benicio del Toro, Michael Douglas, Miguel Ferrer, Albert Finney, Topher Grace, Luis Guzmán, Amy Irving, Tomas Milian, D.W. Moffett, Dennis Quaid, Peter Riegert, Jacob Vargas, Catherine Zeta - Jones Complete list ( 1995 -- 2000 ) ( 2001 -- 2010 ) ( 2011 -- 2020 ) BAFTA Award for Best Film Best Film from Any Source 1947 -- 1967 The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1947 ) Hamlet ( 1948 ) Bicycle Thieves ( 1949 ) All About Eve ( 1950 ) La Ronde ( 1951 ) The Sound Barrier ( 1952 ) Forbidden Games ( 1953 ) The Wages of Fear ( 1954 ) Richard III ( 1955 ) Gervaise ( 1956 ) The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ) Room at the Top ( 1958 ) Ben - Hur ( 1959 ) The Apartment ( 1960 ) Ballad of a Soldier ( 1961 ) The Hustler ( 1961 ) Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ) Tom Jones ( 1963 ) Dr. Strangelove or : How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( 1964 ) My Fair Lady ( 1965 ) Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? ( 1966 ) A Man for All Seasons ( 1967 ) Best Film 1968 -- present The Graduate ( 1968 ) Midnight Cowboy ( 1969 ) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( 1970 ) Sunday Bloody Sunday ( 1971 ) Cabaret ( 1972 ) Day for Night ( 1973 ) Lacombe, Lucien ( 1974 ) Alice Does n't Live Here Anymore ( 1975 ) One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest ( 1976 ) Annie Hall ( 1977 ) Julia ( 1978 ) Manhattan ( 1979 ) The Elephant Man ( 1980 ) Chariots of Fire ( 1981 ) Gandhi ( 1982 ) Educating Rita ( 1983 ) The Killing Fields ( 1984 ) The Purple Rose of Cairo ( 1985 ) A Room with a View ( 1986 ) Jean de Florette ( 1987 ) The Last Emperor ( 1988 ) Dead Poets Society ( 1989 ) Goodfellas ( 1990 ) The Commitments ( 1991 ) Howards End ( 1992 ) Schindler 's List ( 1993 ) Four Weddings and a Funeral ( 1994 ) Sense and Sensibility ( 1995 ) The English Patient ( 1996 ) The Full Monty ( 1997 ) Shakespeare in Love ( 1998 ) American Beauty ( 1999 ) Gladiator ( 2000 ) The Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring ( 2001 ) The Pianist ( 2002 ) The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King ( 2003 ) The Aviator ( 2004 ) Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) The Queen ( 2006 ) Atonement ( 2007 ) Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ) The Hurt Locker ( 2009 ) The King 's Speech ( 2010 ) The Artist ( 2011 ) Argo ( 2012 ) 12 Years a Slave ( 2013 ) Boyhood ( 2014 ) The Revenant ( 2015 ) La La Land ( 2016 ) Satellite Award for Best Film Musical or Comedy ( 1996 -- 2009, retired ) Evita ( 1996 ) As Good as It Gets ( 1997 ) Shakespeare in Love ( 1998 ) Being John Malkovich ( 1999 ) Nurse Betty ( 2000 ) Moulin Rouge ! 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Juliet ( 1990 ) Tromeo and Juliet ( 1996 ) Love Is All There Is ( 1996 ) Rose by Any Other Name... ( 1997 ) The Lion King II : Simba 's Pride ( 1998 ) Shakespeare in Love ( 1998 ) The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns ( 1999 ) Romeo Must Die ( 2000 ) Brooklyn Babylon ( 2001 ) Pizza My Heart ( TV ; 2005 ) West Bank Story ( 2005 ) Life and Lyrics ( 2006 ) Romeo & Juliet : Sealed with a Kiss ( 2006 ) Rome & Jewel ( 2006 ) David & Fatima ( 2008 ) The Cross Road ( 2008 ) Vicious Circle ( 2008 ) Gnomeo & Juliet ( 2011 ) Private Romeo ( 2011 ) Warm Bodies ( 2013 ) Make Your Move ( 2013 ) Romeo & Juliet ( 2013 ) Gnomeo & Juliet : Sherlock Gnomes ( 2018 ) Foreign Ambikapathy ( Tamil 1937 ) Romeo and Juliet ( Spanish 1940 ) Les amants de Vérone ( French 1949 ) Romeo, Juliet and Darkness ( Czech 1960 ) Los Tarantos ( Spanish 1963 ) Fury of Johnny Kid ( Italian 1967 ) Ma che musica maestro ( Italian 1971 ) Maro Charitra ( Telugu 1978 ) Mônica e Cebolinha : No Mundo de Romeu e Julieta ( Portuguese 1979 ) Ek Duuje Ke Liye ( Hindi 1981 ) The Sea Prince and the Fire Child ( Japanese 1981 ) Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak ( Hindi 1988 ) Saudagar ( Hindi 1991 ) The Phantom Lover ( Mandarin 1995 ) 30 : e november ( Swedish / Spanish 1995 ) Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbayi ( Telugu 1996 ) Chicken Rice War ( Cantonese / English 2000 ) Kalisundam Raa ( Telugu 2000 ) Kuch Tum Kaho Kuch Hum Kahein ( Hindi 2002 ) Bollywood Queen ( English / Hindi 2002 ) Amar te duele ( Spanish 2002 ) Ondagona Baa ( Kannada 2003 ) Mamay ( Ukrainian 2003 ) The District ! ( Hungarian 2004 ) O Casamento de Romeu e Julieta ( Portuguese 2005 ) In Fair Palestine : A Story of Romeo and Juliet ( 2006 ) The Bubble ( Hebrew / Arabic 2006 ) Maro Charitra ( Telugu 2010 ) Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram - Leela ( Hindi 2013 ) Issaq ( Hindi 2013 ) Priyatama ( Marathi 2014 ) Arshinagar ( Bengali 2015 ) TV series Sons and Daughters ( 1982 ) Family and Friends ( 1990 ) Villa Quintana ( 1995 ) Yo amo a Paquita Gallego ( 1998 ) Skin ( 2003 ) A Touch Away ( 2006 ) Dangerous ( 2007 ) Romeo × Juliet ( 2007 ) Romeo y Julieta ( 2007 ) Saints & Sinners ( 2007 ) Harina de otro costal ( 2010 ) Villa Quintana ( 2013 ) Westside ( 2013 pilot ) Star - Crossed ( 2014 ) Still Star - Crossed ( 2017 ) Plays Romanoff and Juliet ( 1956 ) Romeo and Juliet ( 2013 ) Songs Lan và Điệp ( 1930s ) `` Montagues and Capulets '' ( 1935 ) `` Fever '' ( 1956 ) Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet ( 1968 ) `` ( Do n't Fear ) The Reaper '' ( 1976 ) `` Angelo '' ( 1978 ) `` Romeo and Juliet '' ( 1978 ) `` Romeo and Juliet '' ( 1981 ) `` Cherish '' ( 1989 ) `` Amor Prohibido '' ( 1994 ) `` Kissing You '' ( 1996 ) `` Exit Music '' ( 1997 ) `` Romeo and Juliet '' ( 1998 ) `` Starcrossed '' ( 2004 ) `` Peut - être toi '' ( 2006 ) `` Mademoiselle Juliette '' ( 2007 ) `` Love Story '' ( 2008 ) `` Love Me Again '' ( 2013 ) Albums Romeo and Juliet ( 1968 ) Romeo + Juliet ( 1996 ) Romeo & Julia ( 2006 ) Tragic Lovers ( 2008 ) Literature Les Chouans The Wandering Jew ( 1844 ) The Stolen Dormouse ( 1941 ) The Faraway Lurs ( 1963 ) Romiette and Julio ( 2001 ) New Moon ( 2006 ) Warm Bodies ( 2010 ) Art Romeo and Juliet : the Tomb Scene ( 1790 ) Romeo and Juliet ( 1978 ) Phrases `` Star - crossed '' `` A rose by any other name would smell as sweet '' Story within a story Nicholas Nickleby 1912 film 1947 film 1980 play 2001 film 2002 film The Picture of Dorian Gray 1910 film 1913 film 1915 film 1916 film 1917 film 1918 film 1945 film 1976 TV special 2009 film Harlequinade W Juliet `` Nothing Broken but My Heart '' Panic Button Bare : A Pop Opera `` '' Into the Light '' Bolji život The Sky Is Everywhere Pay as You Exit The White Mercedes She Died a Lady `` Moonshine River '' Rendez - vous Fame `` I Am Unicorn '' The Frog Prince Molly Smart Girls Get What They Want Tumbleweeds `` The Thief of Baghead '' The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke Prince Charming Km. 0 Phileine Says Sorry Hamateur Night `` Say You 'll Be Mine '' Into the Gauntlet Wandering Son K - On ! 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Question: who plays christopher marlowe in shakespeare in love
Answer: Rupert Everett