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Kenneth Branagh (1960-) is a 5 time Oscar® nominated Northern Irish actor, director, film producer and screenwriter. Branagh has both directed and starred in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare’s plays. His IMDb page shows over 70 acting and over 20 directing credits since 1981. This page will rank Kenneth Branagh movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos, uncredited roles and movies that were not released in North American were not included in the rankings. Drivel part of the page. I was at school today when my professor brought up a quote from Kenneth Branagh from Shakespeare’s Othello. This got me to thinking, why do I not have a Branagh? So thanks to Dr. Joe A. we now have a Kenneth Branagh page.
Kenneth Branagh Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Kenneth Branagh Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
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Best IMDb Trivia on Kenneth Branagh
1. Kenneth Charles Branagh was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1960. He grew up in poverty in the shadow of a tobacco factory in Belfast.
2. Kenneth Branagh was originally cast as the lead in Amadeus (1984) before the production company decided on casting American actors in the leading roles.
3. Along with Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier, Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood and Roberto Benigni, Kenneth Branagh is one of only seven men to receive Academy Award® nominations for both Best Actor and Best Director for the same film: Welles for Citizen Kane (1941), Olivier for Hamlet (1948), Allen for Annie Hall (1977), Beatty for both Heaven Can Wait (1978) and Reds (1981), Branagh for Henry V (1989), Eastwood for both Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004), and Benigni for Life Is Beautiful (1997).
4. Kenneth Branagh was awarded the Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his services to Drama and to the community in Northern Ireland.
5. Kenneth Branagh’s Top 10 movies are: Napoleon (1927), Citizen Kane (1941), Brief Encounter (1945), Black Narcissus (1947), The Third Man (1949), The Searchers (1956), Manhattan (1979), Raging Bull (1980), Tootsie (1982) and Au Revoir les Enfants (1987).
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I love Branagh in his Shakespearian efforts. I have seen 11 including 8 of top 10. 10s not favorites: henry 5th, much ado about nothing. 9 not favorite: murder on the orient express. hidden gem pirate radio(on letterboxd, “the boat that rocked”)