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2025 AFI AWARDS Honoree; Eight 2026 Academy Award® nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress in a Leading Role (Jessie Buckley); Two 2026 Golden Globes wins: Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Actress – Drama (Jessie Buckley)

Academy Award®–winning filmmaker Chloé Zhao (NOMADLAND) directs a sensitively observed, magnificently crafted tale about the complexities of love and the healing power of art and creativity. In 1580s England, impoverished Latin tutor William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) meets free-spirited Agnes (Jessie Buckley), and the pair, captivated by one another, strike up a torrid romance that leads to marriage and three children. Yet as Will pursues a budding theater career in far-away London, Agnes anchors the domestic sphere alone. When tragedy strikes, the couple’s once-unshakable bond is tested, but their shared experience sets the stage for the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece “Hamlet.” Working from a script she adapted alongside Maggie O’Farrell, author of the acclaimed source novel, Zhao captures the dense, lyrical themes and translates them into a powerful film via a lush visual language and incredibly moving performances from Buckley and Mescal. (Note adapted from Focus Features.) DIR/SCR Chloé Zhao; SCR Maggie O’Farrell, from her novel; PROD Nicolas Gonda, Pippa Harris, Liza Marshall, Sam Mendes, Steven Spielberg. UK/U.S., 2025, color, 125 min. RATED PG-13

Run Time: 125 Minutes

Opening Date: Friday, March 13, 2026

Genre: Drama, romance

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