Hamlet is a 1948 British film adaptation of
William Shakespeare's play
Hamlet, adapted and directed by and starring Sir Laurence Olivier.
Hamlet was Olivier's second film as director, and also the second of the three Shakespeare films that he directed (the 1936
As You Like It had starred Olivier, but had been directed by
Paul Czinner).
Hamlet was the first British film to win the
Academy Award for Best Picture. It is also the first
sound film of the play in English. A 1935 sound film adaptation,
Khoon Ka Khoon, had been made in
India and filmed in the
Urdu language.