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
Nastro d'Argento for Best Director Nastro d'Argento for Best Director The Nastro d'Argento (Silver Ribbon) is a film award assigned annually, since 1946, by "Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani" ("Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists") the association of Italian film critics. This is the list of Nastro d'Argento awards for Best Director. Federico Fellini is the record holder with seven Nastro d'Argento awards for Best Director received from 1954 to 1984 (also the only one awarded in two consecutive editions, in 1954 in 1955 for the films "I vitelloni" and "La Strada"), followed by Luchino Visconti, Gianni Amelio and Giuseppe Tornatore, with four awards