Mel Gibson, (born Jan. 3, 1956, Peekskill, N.Y, U.S.), U.S.-born Australian film actor and director. He moved with his family to Australia at age 12. After his screen debut in 1977, he garnered attention as the title character in the futuristic action film Mad Max (1979), which was followed by the sequels The Road Warrior (1981) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985). He won international acclaim for his roles in Gallipoli (1981), The Year of Living Dangerously (1983), and The Bounty (1984), played a tough cop in the action-packed Lethal Weapon (1987) and its sequels (1989, 1992, 1998), and directed and starred in The Man Without a Face (1993) and Braveheart (1995, Academy Awards for best picture and director). He later directed The Passion of the Christ (2004), Apocalypto (2006), and Hacksaw Ridge (2016).
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Academy Award, any of a number of awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., to recognize achievement in the film industry. The awards were first presented in 1929, and winners receive a gold-plated statuette commonly
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Directing, the craft of controlling the evolution of a performance out of material composed or assembled by an author. The performance may be live, as in a theatre and in some broadcasts, or it may be recorded, as in motion pictures and the majority of broadcast material. The term is also used in
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