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
Guldbagge Award for Best Director history. Of the 55 films that have been awarded Best Film, 24 have also been awarded Best Director. The first one to achieve this was Ingmar Bergman, whose film "The Silence" won the Best Film award at the first 1st Guldbagge Awards. The last one who achieved this was Magnus von Horn through his film, "The Here After" at the 51st Guldbagge Awards (2015). The first woman who won the award for Best Director was Marianne Ahrne, for the film "Near and Far Away" (1976). Besides her, only nine women have ever been awarded for Best Director: Suzanne Osten for