Sir Kenneth Branagh was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director for his 1989 adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play about King Henry V of England. The film was again criticised for its historical inaccuracies, but the New York Observer described it as “rousingly entertaining.”Įlizabeth: The Golden Age is available on DVD on Amazon. Time Out‘s review noted that “the film plays fast and loose with history,” but “rattles through dark, stony passions with some considerable panache.”Ĭate Blanchett reprised the role of Queen Elizabeth I in this 2007 sequel and was nominated for Best Actress at the Academy Awards.Įlizabeth: The Golden Age moves in to the latter part of the Queen’s reign, picking up the story in 1585 as King Philip II of Spain plots war with England and Elizabeth finds herself pressured to marry. Joseph Fiennes, Christopher Eccleston, John Gielgud, Geoffrey Rush and Richard Attenborough also star. The role won Blanchett a Golden Globe and a BAFTA in 1998 and Elizabeth received seven Oscar nominations. The young Protestant Elizabeth was crowned Queen upon the death of her Catholic half-sister Mary I in 1558. The first of Australian actress Cate Blanchett’s two movies as the titular queen, this 1998 biographical film dramatises the early years of Queen Elizabeth I of England’s reign.

With a year to go until the next season of The Crown, we’ve picked out 12 of the best ever films with a Royal family focus, listed here in alphabetical order:

The British Royals have been a fertile subject for movies since the dawn of cinema.

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