Branagh, who had eight career nominations heading into Sunday's ceremony, accepted the original screenplay Oscar for 'Belfast.' By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter Branagh had received ...

"Belfast" is a coming-of-age drama inspired by filmmaker Kenneth Branagh's own childhood growing up in Northern Ireland. HOLLYWOOD -- Filmmaker Kenneth Branagh relives the good and bad of his own ...

Director-actor-writer Kenneth Branagh filmed a love letter to his youth with the crowd-pleasing, semi-autobiographical “Belfast,” which opens on area screens this weekend. Based on his experiences ...

Hyphenate Sir Kenneth Branagh has three Oscar nominations for “Belfast” — Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay — but remained behind the camera for the autobiographical film about ...

The writer-director explains how a scene between Buddy (Jude Hill) and his grandfather Pop (Ciarán Hinds) shows characters from different generations on the brink of a major change. By Tyler Coates ...

In a time of grim uncertainty about the future, "Belfast" sent Kenneth Branagh and Ciarán Hinds reaching back into the past. Branagh, who wrote and directed "Belfast," saw the black-and-white ...

Kenneth Branagh has just turned one of his eight career Oscar nominations into a win, stepping up Sunday to receive the award for Original Screenplay for Belfast. “This is an enormous honor for my ...

“Belfast” is loosely based on Kenneth Branagh’s childhood and follows a young boy (played by newcomer Jude Hill) in Belfast, Northern Ireland at the beginning of The Troubles in 1969. Branagh recalls ...

Belfast writer-director-producer Ken Branagh, actor Ciarán Hinds and sound supervisor Simon Chase – all Oscar nominated – spoke with us at Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees event about the ...

Kenneth Branagh was born in Northern Ireland in 1960, according to IMDb. The son of working-class parents, Branagh felt an early affinity for acting. He went on to study at the Royal Academy of ...

The Oscar-nominated director revealed that he cast himself in an epilogue to his autobiographical film, but "in the end the sequence just didn’t feel right.” Hyphenate Sir Kenneth Branagh has three ...