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Sir Kenneth Branagh has been added to the cast of 'Oppenheimer'. The 61-year-old actor and director will reunite with Christopher Nolan for the new flick after the pair previously teamed up for both 'Dunkirk' and 'Tenet'. Kenneth will play an unspecified role in the new movie that tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer and…

Sir Kenneth Branagh said “it’s a hell of a day for my family” as he was nominated for a string of Oscars for his autobiographical film Belfast, while British contenders Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman and Dame Judi Dench also picked up nods.Cumberbatch received a nod for his role as a cruel rancher in Jane Campion’s…

Sir Kenneth Branagh said it had been a “hell of a day” for his family after his semi-autobiographical film Belfast was handed seven nominations at the 94th Academy Awards.The director thanked Academy voters for the “generous recognition” and said his parents and grandparents would have been “overwhelmed” by the film’s success.The film received nods including…

Kenneth Branagh says as a child he experienced “20 seconds where the world turned upside down”, which provided him with creative inspiration decades later.The award winning actor and director said he had come to the realisation that the incident had been “the most defining, important event in my own little personal life”.His semi-autobiographical film Belfast…

Kenneth Branagh on the set of Belfast. Photo: Rob Youngson/B) 2021 Focus Features, LLC. With the idea of the future losing much of its luster, many of us spent the COVID era thinking about the past. But few took it as far as Kenneth Branagh, who used his sudden downtime to write and direct a…