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
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