Overview
- Hideo Kojima praised the film after a screening, calling Zhao “a witch or an angel” and saying it compresses universal sorrow, healing, and hope into 126 minutes.
- Chloé Zhao’s adaptation earned eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actress for Jessie Buckley.
- Hamnet adapts Maggie O’Farrell’s novel about Agnes and William Shakespeare confronting the loss of their young son in Elizabethan England.
- Producer Steven Spielberg provided key creative notes that led Zhao to add a father–son moment and quicken the film’s move to the Globe in the edit.
- James Cameron has publicly lauded the film and reports since its Telluride premiere describe powerful audience responses at screenings.