Director Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version of Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET, an iconic box-office record shattering adaptation, stars seventeen-year-old Leonard Whiting as Romeo and fifteen-year-old Olivia Hussey as Juliet. The raw talent of these leads capture the youth and innocence of the legendary characters like never before in what has gone down in history as one of the most profitable film adaptations of Shakespeare ever produced. Winner of Best Costume Design and Best Cinematography and nominated for Best Picture and Best Director at the **Academy Awards**. Winner of Best English-Language Foreign Film, Most Promising Newcomer - Female (Olivia Hussey), Most Promising Newcomer - Male (Leonard Whiting), and nominated for Best Director and Best Original Score at the **Golden Globes**. *"Franco Zeffirelli's ROMEO AND JULIET is a lovely, sensitive, friendly popularization of the play..." - Renata Adler, **New York Times***