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
Nastro d'Argento for Best Director each. According to St. Matthew" 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