Mel Gibson "Hamlet". Gibson was cast alongside experienced Shakespearean actors Ian Holm, Alan Bates, and Paul Scofield. He compared working with Scofield to being "thrown into the ring with Mike Tyson". Scofield said of Gibson "Not the sort of actor you'd think would make an ideal Hamlet, but he had enormous integrity and intelligence." In 1995, Mel Gibson directed, produced, and starred in "Braveheart", a biographical film of Sir William Wallace, a Scottish nationalist who was executed in 1305 for "high treason" against King Edward I of England. Gibson received two Academy Awards, Best Director and Best Picture, for his second directorial
Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for other categories, but have rarely been so; "Beauty and the Beast" (1991) was the first animated film ever nominated for Best Picture. "Up" (2009) and "Toy Story 3" (2010) also received Best Picture nominations after the Academy expanded the number of nominees from five to ten. "Waltz with Bashir" (2008) is the only animated film ever nominated for Best Foreign Language Film (though it did not receive a nomination for Best Animated Feature). "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993) and "Kubo and the Two Strings" (2016) are the only two animated films to ever be nominated for Best Visual Effects.