Overview
- Jessie Buckley won the Critics Choice Award for Best Actress, and Hamnet heads into Golden Globes night with six nominations as she is widely viewed as a frontrunner.
- Early UK reviews laud Buckley’s performance, Paul Mescal’s turn, and Łukasz Żal’s cinematography, while dissenting voices argue the film can feel overdetermined emotionally.
- A Variety panel detailed Zhao’s low‑ego, highly collaborative direction that guided casting, camera language, production design, and performance choices from the outset.
- Costume research at London rental house Cosprop yielded a rare Elizabethan doublet that informed wardrobe, and a major Globe Theatre sequence was staged with more than 350 extras.
- Mescal described approaching Shakespeare’s journey through the lens of grief, with design and music choices — including linen burial fabrics and clay textures — reinforcing the character’s inner state.