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
Chris Williams (director) Chris Williams (director) Chris Williams (born c. 1968/1969) is a Canadian American animator, film director and screenwriter at Walt Disney Animation Studios. He directed the short film "Glago's Guest" and co-directed "Bolt", which was nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2009; "Big Hero 6", which won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2015 and "Moana," which was nominated for two Oscars for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song in 2016. Williams was born in Missouri and spent the first 25 years of his life in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, where his father was the Director of