Kenneth Branagh, director

The success of Henry V made producers look at Shakespeare and some truly inventive films were made over the next decade.

1989 - Henry V - Branagh becomes youngest Best Director nominee at the Oscars and gets best actor nominee as well

1990 - Hamlet (Gibson, Close, Bonham Carter)

1993 - Much Ado About Nothing (Branagh, Thompson, Washington, Reeves)

1995 - Othello (Fishburne, Branagh, Jacob)

1995 - Richard III (McKellen, Bening, Smith, Scott Thomas)

1996 - Romeo & Juliet (di Caprio, Danes, Leguizamo, Rudd)

1996 - Twelfth Night (Bonham Carter, Hawthorne, Staunton, Kingsley)

1996 - Hamlet (Branagh, Christie, Winslet, Jacobi)

1999 - A Midsummer Night's Dream (Pfeiffer, Flockhart, Bale, Everett)

1999 - 10 Things I Hate About You (Ledger, Stiles)

1999 - Titus (Hopkins, Lange, Rhys, Cumming)

Not sure many of those would have happened without the success of Henry V