Mel Gibson effort. In winning the Academy Award for Best Director, Gibson became only the sixth actor-turned-filmmaker to do so. "Braveheart" influenced the Scottish nationalist movement and helped to revive the film genre of the historical epic; the Battle of Stirling Bridge sequence is considered by critics to be one of the all-time-best-directed battle scenes. The film's depiction of the Prince of Wales as an effeminate homosexual caused the film to be attacked by the Gay Alliance. The Gay Alliance was especially enraged by a scene in which King Edward I murders his son's male lover by throwing him out of a
ARY Film Award for Best Director Jury ARY Film Award for Best Director Jury The ARY Film Award for Best Director Jury is one of the ARY Film Awards of Merit presented annually by the ARY Digital Network and Entertainment Channel to directors working in the film industry and is the only category in which every member is eligible to submit a nomination. Best Film Director Jury is considered the most important of the ARY Film Awards, as it represents all the directing, acting, music composing, writing, editing and other efforts put forth into a drama. This award is one of the two Best Director awards in